Without leaving your home\, you can resear ch your family's origins in Eastern Europe. Plenty of resources are found online\, but they are not necessarily on the usual family history sites. T his talk will provide ideas for pushing your research in new directions\, and suggest tools that would make your work easier. It should be possible to sort out problems and questions regarding geography\, history and bound ary changes.
\nDave Obee is a journalist and genealogical researcher who has written a dozen books and given more than 700 presentations at co nferences and seminars in Canada\, the United States and Australia since 1 997. He is Editor and Publisher of the Times Colonist in Victoria\, Britis h Columbia. He has worked as a journalist in British Columbia and Alberta since 1972. In 2012\, Dave was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by th e University of Victoria for his work as a historian\, genealogist and jou rnalist.
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