Gublerjones

Daniel R. Jones, MS, AG® is an Accredited Genealogist specializing in Swiss and German research. After graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University, Daniel worked professionally for over a dozen years in helping several high-profile clients with research all over Europe. He has experience in numerous archives across more than a dozen countries in Europe, North America, Africa, and Australia. Daniel has also presented at multiple national conferences, including FGS, IGHR, SLIG, FEEFHS, and RootsTech. He is currently a research specialist in Germanic and Slavic Europe for the Family History Library.

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Education and Credentials

• Brigham Young University, B.A. Family History, magna cum laude (2002)
  
• University of Utah, M.S. History---Early Modern Europe (2014)
• Accredited Genealogist in Switzerland
  

Employment and Service

• German, Dutch, South African, and Eastern European Research Specialist at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City
• Co-chair, testing committee, The International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen)
• Adjunct professor, Brigham Young University
• Editorial board member, The Palatine Immigrant

International Archives Experience

Zürich, Switzerland Herisau, Switzerland Bern, Switzerland Frauenfeld, Switzerland Neuchâtel, Switzerland Lausanne, Switzerland Glarus, Switzerland Kassel, Germany Hannover, Germany Berlin, Germany Boppard, Germany Magdeburg, Germany Eisenach, Germany Dresden, Germany Nürnberg, Germany Hohenstein, Germany Oppenheim, Germany Herrstein, Germany Öhringen, Germany Vienna, Austria Graz, Austria

Amersfoort, Netherlands Rzeszów, Poland Warsaw, Poland Lódz, Poland Przemyśl, Poland Ljubljana, Slovenia Fano, Italy Oslo, Norway Sundsvall, Sweden L'viv, Ukraine Minsk, Belarus Dublin, Ireland Kilkenny, Ireland London, England Hertford, England Cardiff, Wales Edinburgh, Scotland Cape Town, South Africa Pretoria, South Africa Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Adelaide, Australia

Presenter at the following Conferences and Seminars

• PALAM, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2020 (upcoming)
• GRIP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2020 (upcoming)
• National Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, 2020 (upcoming)
• RootsTech, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2020 (upcoming)
• Foundation for East European Family History Studies (FEEFHS): Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019
• BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy: Provo, Utah, 2019
• International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP): Sacramento, California, 2019
• RootsTech, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019
• Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG): Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019
• BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy: Provo, Utah, 2018
• Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS): Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2018
• Foundation for East European Family History Studies (FEEFHS): Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018
• Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR): Athens, Georgia, 2018
• Cochrane Family History Conference: Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, 2018
• RootsTech: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018
• Ogden Family History Center 2017 Conference: Ogden, Utah, 2017
• Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR): Athens, Georgia, 2017
• Foundation for East European Family History Studies (FEEFHS): Salt Lake City, Utah, 2017
• Western European Family History Conference: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2017
• European Family History Conference: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2016
• Foundation for East European Family History Studies: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2016
• Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015
• Swiss Seminar: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2014
• South Africa Seminar: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2014
• Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013

Classes and Lectures

• How could Grandma be Wrong? Analyzing Family Records
• Finding Your European Ancestors: Record Types and Resources for Research
• Foreign Language Research: Tools for Reading Genealogical Documents
• Nordic National Archives: Websites for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
• At Home with German Records: Online Resources for Research in Germany
• Germany: Advanced German Research Strategies
• Germany: Historical Geography
• Germany: Solving Complex Genealogical Problems: The Case of Balthasar Weber
• Germany: Identifying towns in Germany (workshop)
• Germany: Complex Thinking: Using non-parish registers to solve research problems
• Germany: Military Records
• The Search for Anna Hansen: Using Geography to Find German Records
• Going Dutch: Finding Families in Online Records of the Netherlands
• Netherlands: Dutch Research Before 1811
• Netherlands: WieWasWie, Past the Index
• Poland: Civil Registration
• Poland: Parish Registers
• Poland: Historical Geography
• From the Alps to the Rhine: Beginning Your Swiss Research
• Switzerland: Compiled Genealogies
• Switzerland: Court Records
• Switzerland: Intro to Swiss Research
• Switzerland: Records Online
• Switzerland: Names and Places
• Switzerland: Research Strategies
• South Africa: Beginning Research
• South Africa: National Archives
• South Africa: FamilySearch Collections Online

Online Learning Courses

• Germany: Meyer's Gazetteer
• Germany: Hansen's Map Guides
• Germany: Reverse-Sort Gazetteers
• Germany: Kartenmeister
• Germany: 1905 Prussian Gazetteer
• Germany: Spellings, Prefixes, and Translations
• German Paleography: Introduction to German
• German Paleography: Fraktur script
• German Paleography: Capital Letters
• German Paleography: Lowercase Letters
• German Paleography: Reading German Names
• Sweden: Places of Origin
• Sweden: Church Records - Baptisms
• Sweden: Church Records - Marriages and Burials
• Sweden: Household Examination Records
• Sweden: Moving In and Out Records
• Sweden: Basic Research Strategy
• England: Evaluating England Censuses
• England: Locating England Civil Registration Records

Publications

• "The Grain of Salt," Crossroads (Utah Genealogical Association)
• "Swiss Immigrants", German-American Genealogy

Research Interests

• South Africa genealogy
• Eastern European research
• Swiss town records
• European royalty and nobility genealogy
• Latin American research

Languages

• German: speak, read, and write
• Dutch: speak, read, and write
• Latin, French, Italian, Spanish – reading ability

Online Activity

• Africa Research Community
• Austro-Hungarian Empire Research Community
• Belgium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands Research Community
• German Research Community
• Poland Research Community
• Russian Empire Research Community
• Switzerland Research Community

Miscellaneous things

Switzerland census records
year 1757-1758 Baden, Aargau - 1185178, 1, 1079
year 1661, Rudgers Altorf, 1185179, 3, 85 - list of conversions.

• Meyer's Gazetteer^* - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
  
• Meyer's Online on Ancestry - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key