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NEXT MEETING: Friday, Feb 6, 2026, 12:30pm (Pacific Time).

Topic: Swiss Essentials: Locating Church Records & Understanding the Impact of Citizenship. TGain an understanding of the essential research tools for researching your ancestors from Switzerland. Learn how to use the Register of Swiss Surnames, Ortsnamen.ch (Swiss maps website), and parish pages on the FamilySearch Wiki to figure out correct localities and locate genealogical records. Discover how Switzerland’s unique system of citizenship plays into record creation and access and how to determine where your Swiss ancestors held citizenship.

Presenter: Charlotte Noelle Champenois, AG®, AGL™. Charlotte, originally from Denmark and a long-time resident of Utah, is accredited in Germany Northwest, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland. She has a BA in genealogy from Brigham Young University, and is working on her master’s in genealogy from the University of Strathclyde.

Charlotte worked as a German and Nordic Research Specialist at the FamilySearch Library for almost 6 years, helping guests with research and translation, and is currently working on the German training dataset for FamilySearch’s AI models as a Technical Historical Records Linguist.

We meet virtually on the first Friday of each month except July and August at 12:30 pm Pacific Time or 10:30 am PT, if the speaker lives outside of the United States. (To convert the meeting time, consider using https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter and Seattle, Washington as our location.)

Visitors are always welcome at our meetings but attendees must register for each meeting. Registrants should save the Zoom registration email containing the meeting link. Attendees can join the Pre-meeting chat 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the meeting.

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