In this episode of Best Websites, Rick Crume highlights some translation tools for making sense of foreign-language records.
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Best Genealogy Websites: Translation Tools
One of the biggest challenges that genealogists face is translating foreign-language records, especially if the handwriting is hard to read. Author Rick Crume joins Lisa Louise Cooke on the podcast to discuss navigating a variety of tools that can get the job done.
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Found in Translation by Rick Crume in the May / June 2025 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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