We have been asked to share the following information about the upcoming meeting of Kelowna & District Genealogical Society.
Struggling with foreign language documents and websites? Vera Miller is here to help with her presentation to the KDGS on Monday, September 8, 6:30pm via Zoom!
September 8: Taking Advantage of Google Translate on Foreign Language Databases for Better Results, with Vera Ivanova Miller
So much incredible information is offered for genealogy research on foreign websites. Vera Ivanova Miller will show how to use several databases for Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian and German 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 also will 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.
Date: Monday, September 8, 2025, 6:30pm (note early start time)
Presenter: Vera Miller
Location: via Zoom
Price: KDGS members Free*; non-members $10; REGISTRATION REQUIRED (click for link)
Bite-size: Searching the KDGS Obituary Database, with KDGS member, Xenia Stanford
Vera Ivanova Miller, a former newspaper reporter, has been researching her ancestry from Ukraine, Russia and Poland since 2006. Her journey was the inspiration to start in 2011 a blog, “Find Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family, (https://lostrussianfamily.
