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-'''Finding places in Austria and the Czech Republic Using the Online Gazetteer GenTeam, Part 1''' (Ehrengard Egbert)
+'''Russian Alphabet, Language and Handwriting Part 1 (Heather Stewart)
-This course will teach you how to use the online gazetteer Genteam.at to find the name of the parish in Czech and German and in which archive these records can be found.
+In this course, the students will learn to recognize and identify Russian letters both typed and handwritten.  They will also learn key words and phrases typically found in the church books enabling them to find key genealogical information contained in the documents.
-'''LAB: Cyrillic for Beginners, part 1''' (Dennis Everett)
-Cyrillic is one of the most common writing systems in the world.  It is utilized in Russia, Rusyn (hence parts of Eastern Slovakia and southern Poland), Serbo-Croatia, Bosnia, Ukraine, and more.  This two-day, two-hour-per-day workshop will provide tools and assistance geared toward helping you to memorize the Russian alphabet and begin to read Cyrillic script in any language.
 === 11:30 am - 12:30 pm ===