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Finding My Way: Researching Your Ancestor in the City

Join us for a FREE virtual program on December 9 at 2:30 p.m. ET!

Finding My Way: Researching Your Ancestor in the City - focuses on record sources which help genealogists follow people in urban environments (city directories, land records, Sanborn and other urban maps, building permits, and censuses). With an emphasis on using a research journal to correlate data and resolve same-named people.

Jessica Fontana is an experienced genealogist with more than 18 years of expertise, proficient in research across the Southern, Midwest, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. She specializes in African-American family history and in tracing Hungarian Catholic and Reformed Church families in both U.S. and Hungarian records. She utilizes DNA analysis to solve complex cases and validate historical records. A former researcher for Ancestry ProGenealogists, she now runs her own genealogy consulting business. Jessica is a member of the APG and is in the final stages of completing her portfolio for accreditation with the Board for Certification of Genealogists.