In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe — 50% OFF

What genealogical records are available?

Where are the records located?

How can each records repository be accessed and used?

gpc395Searching for specific records for your ancestors is work enough. There is no need to first spending significant time finding record repositories to begin with; especially, when there are guides available to point the researcher in the right direction. This includes guides like, In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe This book has been around a while, but it’s still loaded with valuable information on researching ancestors in Europe.

When it comes to European records, this book lists it all. What repositories are available. The types and nature of the records held in each. Where these repositories are held. You also get a little bit of history and key information in understanding and using the available records. This book is one of the few guides that provides the depth of details to prepare the researcher for searching each records set.

Inside this book you will find the archival resources of each country from the national to the local level; the location of church records and census returns; the systems of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths; and how to find and use such records as certificates of domicile, orphan lists, emigration registers, guild records, internal passports, confirmation records, and even vaccination lists.

The third edition of this book added as many URLs (addresses) to as many associative websites as possible. However, the information in this book is by and large unchanged from its first edition, and invaluable compared to the contact information, like websites. The history and location of records is virtually unchanged and of the greatest worth. Besides, any websites or contact information changed since this book was last printed is easily obtained by searching online. By knowing, what is available, what each repository hold, with its history, any researcher can get online and search for online copies of documents or get current contact information for those repositories not yet indexed or copied online.

Never underestimate the value of a book like In Search of Your European Roots. The information is invaluable to researchers looking to find their European ancestors. Equally important, few books every try to cover the whole of a continent in the way this book has covered Europe. See below for a complete list of countries included in this book.

Get a copy of In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe from Family Roots Publishing currently on On Sale for 50% Off through January 15, 2015.

Countries included in this book:

  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Austria
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bosnia
  • Bularia
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • The Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Herzegovina
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macedonia
  • Malta
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • San Marino
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Ukraine
  • Yugoslavia

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