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Tracing Transnational Lives: Bridging Records Between Countries

Uncover strategies for researching ancestors who crossed borders. This session highlights lesser-known European and North American record sets, explores name and language variations, and introduces translation tools to help genealogists follow immigrant families across oceans, languages, and generations.

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