New “Member Friday” Webinar – Research Finns – Finnish not required; Internet is! by Diane L. Richard

Geoff Rasmussen

30 Mar 2018

Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them! This Friday enjoy "Research Finns – Finnish not required; Internet is!" by Diane Richard. If you're not a member, remember the webinar previews are always free.

Research Finns – Finnish not required; Internet is!

Finland is a wonderful place to research a family. Frequently there are church records going back to the early 1700s if not earlier. There is a heritage of families remaining in a community for generations, until they emigrated. Many of the online resources have wonderful English-language interfaces (though the records are in Finnish or Swedish depending where in the country your ancestors lived) and just in case needed, there are a plethora of Finnish research aids and on-line machine translation services. And, Finland is probably one of the easier countries to research female ancestors in! Almost always, the female is listed with at least a patronymic for her father and sometimes she will be listed with her maiden name! We’ll explore at least 6 online Finnish resources that you can access in your jammies, anytime you want.

About the Presenter

Diane L Richard is the Principle of Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM), www.mosaicrpm.com. She has M.E. and M.B.A. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She has been doing genealogy research since 1987 and since 2004 professionally focused on the records of North Carolina, neighboring locales and migration paths to the Mississippi River. She has researched NC roots for the popular TV show Who Do You Think You Are? and appeared on the Bryan Cranston episode. Since 2006 she has authored over 200 articles on genealogy topics for such publications as Internet Genealogy, Your Genealogy Today (was Family Chronicle), NCGS Journal, and local WCGS publications (newsletters and journal). Since 2010 she has been the editor of Upfront with NGS, the blog of the National Genealogical Society and published over 1000 posts. She is currently editor of the journals for NCGS and WCGS. She is a member of the national and local chapters of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the National Genealogical Society (NGS), the North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS) and the Wake County Genealogical Society (WCGS). She is a member of the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG) and as a speaker she has done webinars for NCGS on many topics, presented at the 2012 Federation of Genealogists Conference (FGS), 2015 FxGS Conference, the recent 2016 NGS & TxSGS Conferences, speaks frequently across NC on many topics, and given presentations to out-of-state audiences from Augusta GA to Fairfax VA about the availability and richness of records documenting North Carolinians.

See all the webinars by Diane L. Ricahrd in the Legacy library.

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