The first Scandinavians arrived in North America nearly 1,000 years ago on Viking ships. Today, an estimated 11 million Americans have Scandinavian ancestry. This webinar will provide an introduction to essential records, repositories, and strategies for exploring your Scandinavian roots, focusing on Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. You’ll learn how to address challenges in Scandinavian research including language barriers, common names, patronymic surnames, name changes, and more.

When it comes to researching your Jewish ancestry, it is not just a matter of researching your ancestors as it can be in other situations. Instead, you must have a working knowledge of different countries and their laws in regard to civil registration, military service and more. An understanding of where Jews were allowed to reside and how they were recorded is also necessary.

In his 2016 best-seller, The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir

550-piece puzzle featuring photography by Michele Yeeles

A terrific gift for you or the Mayflower descendant in your life!

Author: Ralph J. Crandall
Published: Nov-01

Learn to trace your family history with American Ancestors Executive Director Ralph J. Crandall! Dr. Ralph J. Crandall of the New England Historic Genealogical Society explains how to research and organize a family history using the latest information available. Chapters include: discovering clues within the family, using the Internet, using library resources, birth, death, and marriage records, church records, cemetery records, court records, organizing and publishing your family genealogy, and much more.

Sue Allan’s tenacious pursuit of origins of the Mayflower passengers in England led us from Dorothy May Bradford’s family, to William White’s family in Wisbech, which in turn led to her assembling all the pieces necessary to solve the mystery of the origin of Mayflower passenger Susanna (Jackson) White Winslow – something researchers have been trying to puzzle out for many decades without success.