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==Your Research Community== | ==Your Research Community== | ||
This can be an intimidating process. Help is available! The members of the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/CentralEuropeGenealogyResearchCommunity/ '''Central Europe Genealogy Research Community'''] can help you along the way. | This can be an intimidating process. Help is available! The members of the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/CentralEuropeGenealogyResearchCommunity/ '''Central Europe Genealogy Research Community'''] can help you along the way. | ||
====FamilySearch Catalog==== | |||
*One of your eventual questions is whether the records you seek have been microfilmed or digitized by FamilySearch. You can just by-pass all this geography and jump to checking to see if FamilySearch has the records. Go to [https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search '''the FamilySearch Catalog'''] and enter the name of the town in the "Place" search field. If there is an item there for any town of that name, the catalog will bring up a list, automatically adding country and province information. Click on the town and see what civil registration and church records are already available. You might not even have to use the rest of this article! | |||
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[[File:FamilySearch catalog Germany.png|700px]] | |||
==Are there several towns with that name, and if so, which one is the correct one?== | ==Are there several towns with that name, and if so, which one is the correct one?== | ||