We are pleased to welcome Gail Blankenau of Lincoln, Nebraska who will present this webinar. 

Gail will provide tips and suggestions to further your Swiss research.
 
Handouts will be provided on the GGS Website www.ggsmn.org for GGS Members in the Member's Only section prior to the Webinar. This webinar will be recorded and available in the same location on the website. If you have forgotten your log in information, instructions of how to retrieve it are on the website.

 

 

 

 

Webinar Description: This webinar will summarize the history of Schleswig-Holstein to provide a basic understanding of how to find records in various archives. How and where to find records on the internet and/or how to contact organizations holding the original records will also be discussed.

 

The focus of the presentation will be on Protestant church books, civil registers and Danish census records. The organizational structures of the Protestant church and the civil administration in Schleswig-Holstein will be explained.

 

Bio - Dr. Kohrt was born and raised in Flensburg, Germany. He received his high school diploma in Great Britain and was a temporary soldier in the German Navy. After studying mathematics and computer science in Kiel, Germany, he worked at Siemens for 25 years in Munich. An avid traveler, he worked abroad both in the U.S. and the U.K.

Residing in Eckernförde, Germany since 2009, he has been an active family researcher for 16 years. He is a member of the following organizations: