Registration Now Open for German Phase 1: Identify the Hometown

 From German Girls Genealogy (Teresa Steinkamp McMillin & Debra A. Hoffman):

Registration for 2025 Fall SLIG Virtual courses started on Saturday, May 17^th, for German Phase 1: Identify the Hometown. See https://slig.ugagenealogy.org/slig-fall-virtual/ for more information on the course and for details on how to register.

 

Debra and Teresa designed this course for researchers who want to begin researching their immigrants from Germany. This course is foundational and will provide a strategic approach for identifying the hometown, which is necessary to conduct research as the church and civil records are held at the local level. Unlike the United States that has national records available like the federal census, those records are not available in Germany. Before 1871, Germany consisted of kingdoms, duchies, principalities, and free Hanseatic cities. This can make researching German immigrants particularly challenging, especially for those that arrived in the United States in the 1700s.

 

If you have this research challenge, we hope that you will choose to take our course and look forward to seeing you in October 2025!