{"id":663,"date":"2015-01-22T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2015-01-22T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:28:59","slug":"a-successful-approach-to-foreign-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"A Successful Approach to Foreign Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/012215_1828_ASuccessful1.png\" alt=\"\" \/>This weekend I will attend a meeting of Norwegian genealogy researchers. As I prepare for the meeting, I began thinking about what a great opportunity it is.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here in the melting pot of America, many genealogists descend from more than one ethnic heritage. Once you &#8220;jump the pond&#8221; you must learn to do research in foreign countries. Unless your family was British, these records are not in English. What do you do?\n<\/p>\n<p>Aside from hiring someone else to do your research, you must learn to do it yourself. My husband\/tech advisor and I have encountered this challenge with our Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Scottish lines. We have followed several strategies for learning to do our foreign research:\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 38pt\">\n<li>We join local groups that focus on a specific ethnicity. Our Sons of Norway lodge includes a genealogy club (the one we will attend this weekend) for pursuing our mutual interest. WISE (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England) and a Germanic research group both meet monthly at the Denver Public Library. A local Finnish club offers one-on-one help with document translation.\n<\/li>\n<li>We attend genealogy conferences targeting an ethnic audience. Our local Palatines to America chapter holds twice-yearly seminars that educate us on Germanic research. The National Genealogical Society annual conference in the states often includes a research track for some ethnic group.\n<\/li>\n<li>We consult the research wiki on the Family Search website (https:\/\/familysearch.org\/learn\/wiki\/en\/Main_Page).\n<\/li>\n<li>We take advantage of opportunities for collaboration with genealogists in our countries of interest. For example, we have found Norwegian research help and other researchers via the DIS-Norge website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disnorge.no\">www.disnorge.no<\/a>).\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People will tell me that I also should be on Facebook to find like-minded researchers. This resource probably helps a great many people, but to me it looks like quite an eater of time. Not appealing to me.\n<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I will trot over to the Sons of Norway research group on Saturday and interact face-to-face with other researchers. We will trade research tips, tell a Norwegian joke or two, and enjoy some Norwegian-style fellowship. This is my type of social network, and I know it will help me along with my own research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I will attend a meeting of Norwegian genealogy researchers. As I prepare for the meeting, I began thinking about what a great opportunity it is. Here in the melting pot of America, many genealogists descend from more than one ethnic heritage. 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