Monday, September 8, 2025     6:15 PM

Kelowna and District Genealogical Society, Zoom Meeting

"Taking Advantage of Google Translate on Foreign Language Databases for Better Results," with Vera Ivanova Miller

So much information is offered for genealogy research on foreign websites. Vera Ivanova Miller will show how to use several databases for Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish and Belarusian, genealogy with the Google Translate web browser app step-by-step. In addition viewers will see how to search in foreign languages on Google with the app. Her presentation will also include how the Russian-Ukrainian war is affecting research in Russia and Ukraine and how to work around the challenges due to the war. This presentation will give your genealogy research an extra boost by showing how to find more useful information, resulting in saving time and money, where ever you are researching for your genealogy.

Vera Ivanova Miller, a former newspaper reporter, has been researching her ancestry from Ukraine, Russia and Poland since 2006. Her journey was the inspiration in 2011 to start a blog "Find Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family, (https://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/) that was honoured as a 2023 Family Tree Magazine "101 Best Websites". Thanks to learning how to use Russian-and Ukrainian- language resources online, Vera has been able to trace her Eastern European family tree back to the 1600's. She is the author of "Genealogy at a Glance: Ukrainian Genealogy Research" and "Genealogy at a Glance: Russian Genealogy Research", publications of Genealogical Publishing Co.

Bite-size presentation to follow: Searching the KDGS Central Okanagan Obituary Database, by KDGS member, Xenia Stanford.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Price: KDGS members Free; non-members $10

Kelowna and District Genealogical Society annual membership fee is: Single-$50 or Family-$60.

For the 2025/26 year we have a schedule of speakers with a variety of backgrounds and experience in genealogical research.

Join us! New Members Welcome! Get to know your Ancestors!

For more info visit KDGS.ca