Title: Luxembourgers on the Prairie: Researching your Luxembourg Ancestors
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 8:00 pm Central
Description: There are more people of Luxembourg-descent living in the Midwest than currently living in Luxembourg today, yet this immigrant group is often invisible as they frequently became absorbed in German-speaking communities following their arrival. Chicago has several historically Luxembourg neighborhoods and Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, among other states, all have unique distinctly Luxembourg settlements. This webinar will explore resources for locating your Luxembourg ancestor in the U.S., identifying their ancestral village and tips for researching Luxembourg's multilingual records.
Inspired by the Bicentennial, Lisa Oberg began researching her family history at the age of 12. Lisa received her Master of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington (UW), where she is the Head of Public Service and the History of Science and Medicine Curator for Special Collections in the UW Libraries. Lisa teaches online courses aimed at library staff serving genealogists thru the University of Wisconsin's School of Library and Information Studies and the University of Washington's Information School. Follow her genealogy adventures on her blog, GeneaGator (geneagator.blogspot.com) where she explores her American melting pot roots.
Register: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4916431437334451204
Registration Procedure: There are only 500 available "seats" for each webinar and we have limited the number of registrations for each webinar to 650. Past experience has shown that approximately 30% of those who register don't attend a webinar.
Recommendation: login to the webinar EARLY - access begins at 7:30 pm Central. Once the "room" fills up with 500 attendees, others attempting to join will receive a "room full" message.
Recording and Handout Available to ISGS Members: For ISGS members who cannot attend the live webinar on September 12th, a recording of the webinar, along with the handout, will be made available in the Members Section of the ISGS website at http://ilgensoc.org/members.php. If you're not already a member of ISGS, visit Join ISGS! at http://ilgensoc.org/cpage.php?pt=8 for more information.
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Please direct any questions to the ISGS Education Committee at isgswebinar@ilgensoc.org.
The 2017 ISGS Webinar Series is Sponsored by FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org).
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