The Northern Waters Genealogical Society invites you to their next meeting on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 2-3 pm, at the Boulder Junction Community Center, 5392 Park Street and on Zoom. A brief business meeting will follow.
This month’s program is Mining the Uber-sites for German Ancestors” with Speaker James Beidler by Recorded Webinar. While there's a galaxy of Internet sites that can help you with your German genealogy, some stars shine brighter than others - and it's not just Ancestry and FamilySearch, although those two 500-pound canaries both have huge assets for those seeking Deutsch ancestors.
James M. Beidler, former Interim Executive Director for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, is the author of four commercially published genealogy books as well as writing “Roots & Branches,” an award-winning weekly blog/newspaper column on genealogy. He is also a columnist for German Life magazine and is editor emeritus of Der Kurier, the quarterly journal of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society. Beidler is a frequent contributor to periodicals ranging from scholarly journals such as The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine to popular-interest magazines such as Family Tree Magazine. He also wrote the chapter on genealogy for Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth.
As a lecturer, Beidler has been a presenter at numerous conferences. In addition to being a member of numerous genealogical, historical, and lineage societies, Beidler also has sat on Pennsylvania’s State Historic Records Advisory Board as well as the selection committee for the Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project.
Beidler was born in Reading, PA, and raised in nearby Berks County, where he currently resides.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information or Zoom link, please call 715-686-7339.
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