Next week my Tracing Ancestors from Continental Europe course begins – 7 May 2024.

The course runs over five weeks. Like all Pharos courses there is a weekly session where we can come together, to share research questions, frustrations, hints and tips. Each week there is a lesson and an accompanying set forum discussion.

Tracing Ancestors from Continental European – Copyright Julie Goucher, 2021

There is also a comprehensive research pack. This comprises of links, both genealogical, and historical etc for each European country and a few other near locations.

This course does not have all the answers for researching in Europe, but what it does do is provide context for your research. That is important, because without that context researchers would be unaware of the various elements that might contribute to NOT finding who is being sought, or perhaps researchers looking in an incorrect country. There are lots of frustrations to researching in Europe much of which is driven by the impact of military activity. Even if a researcher is looking, lets say for a family in Prussia two hundred years ago, how could that be impacted?

Well, countries can be impacted by war, name changes, and border changes. More that that, in the case of Prussia, territory has been split and as such research material could be in one or more of several countries. Anyone who has ever heard me lecture on European Ancestors will have heard me say that researching in Europe requires a solid foundation.

I do have some European Ancestors material online HERE which you are welcome to look at. There is also some downloads available which you can find HERE, and these are provided for personal use only, and represent a mere fraction of material available. If you wish to use them for other purposes please email me. 

The course starts on 7 May 2024 and there are some spaces left. This runs annually, and the next time it runs will be 2025. You can find more information and book your space by clicking HERE.