The Kelowna & District Genealogical Society (KDGS) in British Columbia will host the virtual presentation, Taking Advantage of Google Translate on Foreign Language Databases for Better Results, presented by Vera Ivanova Miller, on Monday, September 8, at 6:30 p.m. Pacific time.
So much incredible information is offered for genealogy research on foreign websites. Vera will show how to use several databases for Ukrainian, Polish, German, Belarusian and Russian genealogy with the Google Translate web browser app step-by-step. Her presentation will also include how the Russian-Ukrainian war is affecting research in Russia and Ukraine and how to work around the challenges.
Vera Ivanova Miller, a former newspaper reporter, has been researching her ancestry from Ukraine, Russia and Poland since 2006. Her journey was the inspiration to start in 2011 a blog, Find Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family, that was honoured as a 2023 Family Tree Magazine 101 Best Websites.
A bite-size presentation, Searching the KDGS Central Okanagan Obituary Database, by KDGS member Xenia Stanford, will follow.
Together, these presentations are free to KDGS members and $10 for non-members. Register to watch online. You may join the Zoom presentation as early as 6:15 p.m.
