Ellie Vance Christensen Email & Phone Number

Provide data for machine learning and computer assisted indexing for Russian language handwritten genealogical documents.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

- Assist Library and online patrons with research, translation, and methodology questions regarding research in areas including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and groups such as Germans from Russia, and Jewish research in the former Russian Empire.

Provo, Utah Area

- Assisted Professor Roger P. Minert in indexing German-American church records for the series entitled: German Immigrants in American Church Records. - Edited and proof-read files to prepare for publication. - Indexed over three-thousand entries from German-American church records and in the process learned to read German handwriting and use gazetteers to determine German place names.

Center For Family History And Genealogy

- Used vital, census, migration, newspaper and church records to piece together family histories and track the lives of Nauvoo residents to contribute to an online database. - Supervised a team of five student supervisors and twenty student researchers and reviewed their work for research accuracy and analysis. - Trained new employees on project guidelines, research methodology, and quality standards. - Worked with Professor Jill Crandell and another student co-manager to oversee the project and ensure database growth and research quality. - Responded to database users’ requests, questions, comments, and concerns through email.

History Department

- Aided history Professor Jenny Hale Pulsipher in “A Historian’s Craft,” a course designed to help students analyze historical issues and to understand and write history. Met with students during office hours to discuss class topics, graded exams, and offered editing and guidance for term research papers.

- Conducted research and produce professional level research reports, logs, and document portfolios for clients whose ancestors lived in areas including the United States (immigration and naturalization research), Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the Baltics, and ethnic groups such as Germans from Russia, and Jewish research in the former Russian Empire. - Collaborated with other researchers who specialize in US or DNA research to create joint research reports.

Provo, Utah

- performed German and Russian family history look ups at the Family History Library - provided transcriptions and translations of genealogical documents

Moscow, Russian Federation

- Received daily one-on-one lessons from professional genealogists about Russian genealogical sources and research. - Performed early to mid-twentieth century research in the United States and Canada for clients who had family members immigrate to America. - Provided training (in Russian) to Russian genealogists about FamilySearch, Ancestry, and American/Canadian genealogical research.

Bachelors, Family History And Genealogy And Russian

Advanced Russian Language And Culture Summer School

Intermediate Russian Language And Culture Summer School