Finding Your East European Ancestors' Village

Finding Your East European Ancestors' Village
Presenter: Lisa A. Alzo
Duration: 30 minutes

About this virtual conference class:
To unlock church records and other documents in the old country, you need to know exactly where your clan lived. Discover tools and techniques to pinpoint your ancestral town in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and other areas of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

What you'll learn:

• Tools and techniques to pinpoint your ancestral town in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire
• The best records to search for the name of the ancestral/town village
• How to utilize maps, gazetteers, and atlases and finding aids to identify places
• The top pitfalls and obstacles and how to work around them