User:Elliealiese

=Ellie Vance=

Education

 * BA Brigham Young University: Family History and Genealogy/Russian, 2015-2019
 * Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration: Advanced Russian Language Program, 2018
 * Higher School of Economics: Intermediate Russian Language Program, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2017

Experience

 * German/Slavic Research Specialist, FamilySearch Family History Library
 * Eastern European Genealogical Researcher, Legacy Tree Genealogists
 * Genealogical Intern, Международный Генеалогический Центр (International Genealogical Center), Moscow, Russia
 * Student Manager and Research Assistant, Nauvoo Project, BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy
 * Research Assistant to Roger P. Minert, German Immigrants in American Church Records, Brigham Young University

Credentials
Ellie is in the process of obtaining an AG from iCAPGen in Russian genealogical research.

Memberships

 * American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
 * BYU Family History Club

Upcoming Presentations

 * Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG): Salt Lake City, Utah, January 2021

Past Presentations

 * Family History Library Russian Paleography Seminar, April 2020
 * Roots Tech: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 28 February 2020
 * Germans from Russia Lecture Series: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2019 - May 2020


 * Family History Library German/Slavic Paleography Seminar: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2019


 * Family Roots Conference: St. George, Utah, September 2019


 * BYU Family History and Genealogy Conference: Provo, Utah, August 2019


 * American Historical Society of Germans from Russia: Lincoln, Nebraska, July 2019


 * Phi Alpha Theta Conference: St. George Utah, April 2019

Classes and Lectures
FamilySearch Germans from Russia Lecture Series:


 * An Overview
 * Locating the Town with Websites and Gazetteers
 * Revision List Records
 * Online Resources for Volga Germans
 * Published Works and Indexes for Black Sea Germans
 * Locating Church Records
 * Contacting Archives

FamilySearch Russian Paleography Seminar: Reading Russian Documents:


 * The Russian Alphabet
 * Deciphering the Handwriting and Understanding the Grammar
 * Key Words, Common Vocabulary, and Abbreviations
 * Reading Russian Documents: Polish Birth, Marriage, and Death Records Written in Russian
 * Reading Russian Documents: Russian Orthodox Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
 * Reading Russian Documents: Revision Lists
 * Deciphering German, Russian, and Polish Names Written in Russian.

Conference Classes


 * Introduction to German Genealogy Using Meyers Gazetteer and FamilySearch
 * Utilizing American Church Records in your Research
 * Painting a Picture of your Ancestor's Life
 * Finding the Ancestral Hometown
 * Russian Handwritten Alphabet
 * Russian Metrical Records
 * Revision Lists and the 1897 Census
 * Germans in Russia
 * Russia: Locating the Ancestral Home and Record Jurisdictions Using Maps and Gazetteers

Publications

 * The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918: A Defining Characteristic in the Life and History of the American Family: The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 48: Iss. 1, Article 4.
 * New Resource Available for the State Archive of the Saratov Oblast: Learn How to Use the Archival Finding Aid to Locate Church Records for Your Volga German Ancestor, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR) Fall 2020 Newsletter, no. 179, pg. 10.