Family Tree Tours Webinar

 

 

Date:          December 17, 2020

Time:          1:00 pm Central Time

Topic:         Nordic Research – 4 Countries in 60 minutes!

Speaker:    Kathy Meade

This class will present an overview of the key resources for researching your Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish heritage. The class will outline the steps for identifying key information about your ancestor so you can jump the pond. Identifying this information will include looking at key U.S. resources; unique Swedish American, Danish-American, Norwegian American, and Finnish-American sources and research centers. This will be followed by looking at the various record types for each country and where you can find these resources: online (both free and subscription sites) as well as physical archives and research centers.

 

Kathy Meade is the North American representative for ArkivDigital AD AB, a company that offers online access to newly photographed color images of the Swedish church books and other historical records. She has been working with Swedish genealogy for more than fifteen years. Ms. Meade serves on the advisory board for the Swedish American Genealogy Research Center at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. She volunteers at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago and the Arlington Heights Memorial Library in Arlington, Heights, Il helping patrons with their Swedish genealogical research. In a prior life, she lived and worked in Sweden and Norway for 7 years during the 90’s learning the languages.

 

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