German Immigrants in American Church Records

One of the biggest challenges in family history research is locating an immigrant ancestor’s home town. Dr. Roger Minert is attempting to find a solution for researchers of German descent by sponsoring a group of students to read German church records and collect genealogical information. To date, Dr. Minert has published 38 volumes of these records — and Pennsylvania is next! Please join WPGS to learn more about the project and how to help Dr. Minert and his team find records to include in the project.

This will be a virtual program and is free and open to all. Please click here to register for this program.

About our Speaker

Roger P. Minert was a professor of family history at Brigham Young University until he retired in 2019. He is a professional genealogist and an emeritus AG (Accredited Genealogist). He has a background in German language study and has published reference books for genealogy work on German immigrants, and guides on performing German genealogy research. He frequently presents on German family history topics at genealogy conferences.