Dr. Klaus Kohrt - Family Research in Schleswig-Holstein: the Challenges and How to Overcome Them (Webinars)
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:
- Schleswig-Holsteinische Familienforschung e.V. – chairman
- Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogischer Verbände e. V. (DAGV) – deputy chairman
- Pommerscher Greif e.V. – past chairman and current contact person for the district of Greifenberg
- Association for Computer Genealogy - active member
- Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde - initiator/organizer of the family research working group - "IGeFF”
