Courses

Reading the Old German Handwriting Online Course
Learn to read the old German script in your ancestors’ records!
Description: Learn to read the old German handwriting of your ancestors in this interactive and comprehensive course! Complete with flashcards, matching games, quizzes, vocabulary lists, and actual practice records, this course takes you from learning the handwritten alphabet to deciphering entire records. Best yet, the course is entirely self-paced and grants you life-time access – meaning you can come back and review anytime the genealogy bug bites!
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German for Genealogists Online Course
Get the German skills you need to translate your documents!
This course teaches you the exact German language you need to know to work with your genealogy documents. While other German courses are great, they focus on teaching you the modern German you need to converse in Germany in the 21st century.
This course, German for Genealogists, teaches you the targeted German language you need to work specifically with your ancestors’ records. It focuses on genealogy-specific vocabulary, helpful German grammar (did you know the word “der” vs. “dem” can make all the difference in what your sentence means in relation to your ancestor?), church record headings, vital record language, and much more.
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German Handwriting + German for Genealogists Course Bundle Deal
Almost $850 separately, get both courses for only $796 with the bundle deal! Or just $135 a month!
Reading the Old German Handwriting Course : Learn to read the beautiful old German script and decipher your ancestors’ documents. (Learning transcription!)
German for Genealogists Course: Learn the German language skills you need to understand your ancestors’ records – the genealogy German you can’t learn anywhere else. (Learning translation!)
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Reading the Old German Handwriting Online Course
$359.00 — or $90.00 / month for 4 months Select options -
BUNDLE DEAL: Reading the Old German Handwriting + German for Genealogists
$796.00 — or $135.00 / month for 6 months Select options
What Clients Are Saying:
Thank you for these amazing translations! I never dreamed so much additional information was hidden in those records, such as Wendtlandt being an organist, the ringing of the bells (I was a music major and enjoyed those bits of information), and the emergency baptism. These are examples of facts and events that make a family story real – and I know that my husband’s family will be surprised and glad to learn of them. I now realize how much I’m missing when I look at these old records. Ancestry o…
I had that hardest of genealogical roadblocks- someone who changed their name illegally and died with their secret. Katherine provided very careful and scholarly transcriptions and translations of some key documents. Mystery solved. My advice: engage a professional like Katherine and don’t guess at the content of Kurrent manuscripts when the result matters to you.
Katherine was instrumental in helping me give my wife—her words—“the best gift she has ever gotten.” For forty years, she has had copies of letters to and from her beloved grandmother and her siblings handwritten in German. Katherine translated the letters beautifully, providing us with both the German and English digital files. She was always responsive in our communications and met challenging time deadlines so that I could give my wife the letters as a Christmas present. Her fees were…
Her knowledge of the German language, written and oral, is very remarkable and impressive.
Thank you so much for doing my translation, I am thrilled to pieces and this afternoon I am going to send it off to all the family here in England and in Germany. How you translated that writing I just don’t know, but I suppose if you study languages it perhaps becomes a little easier! Many thanks again, I am so delighted. And isn’t it interesting!
I can highly recommend the work of Katherine. I used her services to proofread my master thesis and the result greatly benefited from her thorough and detailed checking. Her feedback and comments were very constructive and extremely helpful. Moreover, the work was done timely and she responds to questions quickly. I will definitely use her services again.
I enthusiastically recommend Katherine for your translation needs! She is professional, courteous, timely, and very pleasant to work with. She responds promptly to emails, and meets the deadlines she establishes for the translations. I had asked her to translate some 1800 era Austrian church records in handwritten script, the quality of which was not always the best. She came through with not only the English translations, but the German transcriptions as well. Her footnotes and additi…
Katherine transcribed several handwritten German documents dating from the Second World War for me, and it was truly a pleasure to work with her. Thanks to her skill in deciphering the texts, I’ve learned a great deal about my family history, and she was particularly thorough in researching the places and names included in the text. Katherine is professional and resourceful with a great eye for detail – exactly as a good translator should be – and I would not hesitate in recommending her.
Just got home to find this treat in my inbox. I am thrilled to read the words my [ancestor] Christopher read; that he felt deeply enough to quote. Great job on the translation.
I am stunned what Katherine was able to translate from some civil war-era family letters due to the poor letter quality. I didn’t think it could be done. Katherine dedicates herself to your project like it’s her own family. I am grateful that I found her and her work will have an impact on my family for generations to come.