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Find A Grave is a popular free genealogy website with over 170 million burial records. Besides birth, death, and burial details, many records provide information on spouses, parents, and children, with some including obituaries or biographical notes.

The Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal provides unprecedented opportunities for family historians and genealogists to search for their ancestors and for scholars to research a variety of topics related to slavery and Reconstruction in the Freedmen’s Bureau records.

This service is provided by Theresa Berns, a native German speaker. This is what she says about her services. "I believe it is essential to know our ancestors and their past to better understand ourselves. As a native German speaker and professionally trained translator, I am here for you to decipher and translate genealogical documents written in the old German script. Together, we will untangle the linguistic knot that German (especially the German spoken and written centuries ago) can be and bring you closer to your roots."

Meet Katherine Schober, Founder and CEO With more than a decade of experience professionally translating German to English, I love helping clients like you discover the fascinating lives of their German ancestors. Deciphering the old handwriting and finding the perfect words to unlock the secrets of your family letters, diaries, and records – as well as teaching you how to do it yourself – is something I truly enjoy. Born in St. Louis, I earned my Master’s degree in the German language through Bowling Green State University/University of Salzburg. I then spent three additional years in Austria, teaching English and translating German (with a focus on history). In 2014, I moved back to the States with my Austrian husband, and, although we are now in America, German is still the main language spoken in our home. As a German-English genealogy translator and educator, I can happily say I love what I do.

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Greenbrier County was a part of the State of Virginia until the Civil War resulted in West Virginia forming it's own state. Many, many settlers left Augusta County and traveled through Greenbrier County in the 1800s on their way west. Many also stopped in Greenbrier and made it their home.

This is a link to the "Our Public Records" website and the interviewing guide may be very helpful to those trying to document information from living relatives. There are a number of additional resources on the website itself.