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| Language | Wikitree volunteer | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Francis Lehman | My native languages are Afrikaans and English (My mother is Afrikaans and my father English). |
| Afrikaans | Philip Van der Walt | My native languages are Afrikaans and English (both sides of the family were bilingual). I also speak, read and write Dutch fluently. |
| Afrikaans | Ronel Olivier | My native language is Afrikaans and I am available to help |
| Afrikaans | Louis Johannes Louw | My home language is Afrikaans and i will help with documents that is in Afrikaans(One of the 11 official languages of South Africa) |
| Afrikaans | Susanna de Bruyn | My native language is Afrikaans and willing to help |
| Afrikaans | Anneme van Berge | My native language is Afrikaans and willing to help translate any documents and information. |
| Arabic/French | Fadhl | I am able to help with Arabic from time to time. |
| Arabic/French | Richard Hay | I am a native English speaker with fluency in Arabic and French. |
| Basque | Anders Lanzén | I am Swedish but living in the Spanish Basque country and also speak Basque (euskera). |
| Bulgarian | R Neff | My Bulgarian is pretty basic, but my wife is fluent in that (and Russian). |
| Catalan | Cervera_Balaña-1 | I'm a native Catalan and Spanish speaker. I'm available to translate Catalan/Spanish to English. |
| Catalan | Cervan-1 | I'm a native Catalan speaker. I'm available to translate Catalan to Spanish/English. |
| Czech | Stanislav Hostomský | Native Czech speaker with some English skills. |
| Czech | Ladislav Dvořák | Native Czech speaker |
| Czech | Petr Sedloň | Native Czech speaker, I am available with translation short texts from Czech to English. |
| Czech | Matyáš Niedermeier | Czech native Czech, available with translating Czech text or helping with Czech Genealogy. |
| Czech | Michelle Hartley | Available to help with Czech Republic research and Czech parish online digital archives in Latin & Czech Language. I am available to research in Oklahoma. |
| Czech/Slovak | Anton Molčan | Native Slovak speaker living in the Czech Republic. Happy to assist with translations. (I may also be able to help with some rudimentary Hungarian, Polish or Ukrainian in Czecho-Slovak records) |
| Danish | Ole Selmer | My mother tongue is Danish |
| Danish | Hanmer-105 | Danish native speaker. |
| Danish | Susan Laursen | Danish native speaker. |
| Danish | Paul Bech | I'm not a native speaker but can interpret most genealogical info from church register entries, and may be able to help in searching the registers. |
| Danish | Dagmar Thorisdottir | I'm have been living in Denmark for 25 years and can help with most danish text. |
| Dutch | Annemarie Kalishoek | I am Dutch and willing to translate from English to Dutch or from Dutch to English |
| Dutch | Martyn Grifhorst | I am Dutch and live in the Netherlands. I'm willing to help in translation, interpretation and searching in Dutch databases |
| Dutch | Jan Terink | I am Dutch and can be of assistance in suggesting and/or looking up sources, translate Dutch to English, and visit local archives if necessary |
| Dutch | Bea Wijma | I am Dutch and willing to look for sources in Dutch databases, and translate in English or German. |
| Dutch | Margreet Beers | I am Dutch and can be of assistance in suggesting and/or looking up sources, translate in English and German and can be of assistance for any Spanish translations (not as fluent as my English and German). |
| Dutch | Lennart van Haaften | I'm Dutch and can help translate Dutch records and search Dutch archives. |
| Dutch | Astrid Spaargaren | I am Dutch, but born German and willing to look for sources in Dutch databases, and translate in English or German. |
| Dutch | Filip Beunis | Flemish (=Dutch) is my native language, and I'd be happy to help translating records, looking for Belgian sources, or in any other way. |
| Esperanto | Scott Starkey | I'm a fluent Esperanto speaker |
| Esperanto | Robin van der Vliet | I'm a fluent Esperanto speaker from the Netherlands. |
| Esperanto | Guillermo "Willi" Badino | I'm an intermediate Esperanto speaker. |
| Farsi | خسرو ادیب سمیعی (Khosrow Adib Samii) | I am a Farsi speaker and manager of سمیعی family tree |
| Finnish | Atro Tossavainen | Finnish is my native language and I live in Finland. I am willing to help with translation, interpretation and searching in Finnish databases. |
| Finnish | Juha Soini | A native of Finland. I used to live in Sweden and am fluent in Swedish as well as quite good at English. |
| French | Mystery Grand'Maison | My first language is French and I have a pretty big vocabulary(I even understand legal jargon and old french from documents). I am a Quebec native. Happy to help out however you need! |
| French | Steve Bartlett | A Brit who has lived in France for more than 20 years. Good understanding of modern French vocabulary |
| French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, German. | Erin Johnson | I am fluent in French; I took classes from 8th grade through my senior year of highschool and continue to study on my own. I am teaching myself Haitian Creole and am at about an intermediate level. I am fluent in Spanish, self taught although just started working on a Spanish major and have volunteered with Spanish speaking groups in my community. I took two semesters of Russian in college and am at an intermediate level. I'm also teaching myself Italian, Portuguese, and German. I'm high intermediate with Italian and intermediate with Portuguese and German. I'm studying several other languages and am at varying levels with those; these are listed on my page. I'm happy to help in any way I can! :) |
| French | P Cousineau | I am a fluent French speaker. |
| French | Roland Arsenault | Acadian French is my native language. |
| French | Barbara Cutter | Studied French for 8 years. |
| French | Maggie N | I am American.I'm not a native speaker but willing to help translate genealogical records. |
| French | Guy Constantineau | French canadian is my native language. I'm willing to help in translation, interpretation and searching in french databases (Québec). |
| French | Jean-Marie Baltimore | French is my native language and I live in France as well. I'm willing to help translate genealogical documents and do some lookouts on French databases (France and all French overseas departments like Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barthélémy, etc). |
| French | Isabelle Rassinot | French is my native language and I live in France. I'm willing to help translate genealogical documents and also research specific documents in the French or Belgian archives (online). I would also be happy to provide biographies in French (for French notables, for example). |
| French | Bernard Vatant | French is my native language and I live in France. I can help with search and translation of France online archives. |
| French | Emma McBeth | Although not a native speaker, I can read and write French and have experience translating genealogical documents (as long as they are not full of legal jargon). As a greeter, I also help greet new guests in French. |
| French | Benjamin Frey | Fluent in French. Native English Speaker. I'm not a professional translator, but I'm happy to help translate or interpret documents. |
| French | Tamara Knowles | I speak French and English |
| French | E Reffell | |
| French | Filip Beunis | Although I'm from the Flemish part of Belgium, my knowledge of French is good enough to help translating records, looking for Belgian sources, or in any other way. |
| French/Canadian French | Rachel Nadeau | I was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine USA, where many Quebequois migrated. The French-Canadian vernacular was spoken at home and with other relatives. I learned standard French in school. I understand the spoken language best, but can read and speak well enough to "get by". |
| French | Rubén GS | |
| French | Léa Haupaix | Native French speaker, used to research records for French people |
| German | Dieter Lewerenz | I am a native German and offer to help translate German documents into English.
Since I can read many old German handwritings, I am also able to transcribe and then translate them. I can even say that I love to extract the secrets from these old scripts. |
| German | Thorsten Alge | I am a German native speaker offering assistance in translating and interpreting German genealogical sources. I am also able to read old German Script in most cases. |
| German | Nicky Dorrington | I am a fluent German speaker willing to help in translating German documents and records |
| German | Martyn Grifhorst | I'm not a native speaker but can interpret most genealogical info |
| German | Andreas Köhler | I am a German native speaker offering assistance in translating and interpreting German genealogical sources |
| German | Daniel Schewe | I am a German native speaker offering assistance in translating and interpreting German genealogical sources. I am also able to read old German Script in most cases. |
| German | Bea Wijma | I am willing to help in translating German documents and records and/ or look for them in the German online archives. |
| German | Reinhard John | I am a native German speaker |
| German | Lothar Wolf | I am a native German speaker offering assistance in translating and interpreting German genealogical sources. I am also able to read old German Script in most cases. |
| German | Constantin S. Groß | I am a native German speaker. However, I'm not very good at reading old script (or scruffy handwriting in general, for that matter). |
| German | Astrid Spaargaren | I am Dutch, but born German, reading and (lazy at writing German) understanding modern German 100% and willing to look at any German document that needs translation to Dutch or English or for sources in Dutch databases, and translate in English or even German. |
| German | Alex Pippitt | I studied in Germany for 4.5 years; my husband is a native speaker. We can help with translation. |
| German | E Reffell | including Middle High German |
| German | Guillermo "Willi" Badino | Although not a nativ speaker, I live in Germany and I have a proved B2 (intermediate/high) level. |
| Haitian Creole | Brian Loiseau | Brian is a native English speaker and an advanced speaker of Haitian Creole (our first to register!). He is new to WikiTree, and is available to welcome Haitian members or assist with the language. |
| Hebrew | ShiraDestinie JonesLandrac | Spoke modern Hebrew (interII) 20 yr ago, now read Biblical and Ketubah Hebrew fairly well, can help with marriage and family docs. ShiraDest |
| Hindi | Vivek Chamedia | Hindi is used in India. Vivek is a native speaker and is willing and able to assist. |
| Hungarian | J (Palotay) Szent-Györgyi | I'm fluent in Hungarian and have some experience with translating genealogical records into English. (I can also often manage the basic sort of Latin that occurs in church registers.) |
| Hungarian | Ádám Kovács | I am a native hungarian offering help with translating and deciphering genealogical records from Hungary. |
| Hungarian | Maggie N | I am American.I'm not a native speaker but willing to help translate genealogical records. |
| Icelandic | Dagmar Thorisdottir | I am an Icelandic native speaker. |
| Italian | Enrico Davini | If wikitree users need to translate (or read) italian documents , I can help . please look my profile in wikitree and my web site http://www.genealogiadavini.it or my group "Cognome Davini" on Facebook |
| Italian | Caitlin Arndt | Native English speaker, fluent in Italian. I'm available for translation IT>EN as needed. Though I consider English my native language, Sicilian was what I learned first, learning Italian formally later. So, if you happen to be having translation trouble in regard to Sicily, I may be able to help. |
| Italian | E Reffell | self taught |
| Italian | Karen Brubaker | Sometimes I'm available for translation from Italian to English or reading documents. |
| Italian | Nathan Margrett | I am available to assist with IT>EN translations. B2 level Italian speaker with experience researching my own family's Italian ancestors in Sicily. |
| Italian | Francesca Murphy | Native Italian speaker with near native English fluency (we speak English at home). I can help with both IT>EN and EN>IT translations. |
| Japanese | Caitlin McCann | Intermediate to Advanced speaker of Japanese and fluent speaker of English |
| Latin | Maggie N | Willing to help translate genealogical records. |
| Latin | Michelle Hartley | Willing to help read Latin records |
| Latin | Samantha Rogers | Willing to help translate Latin records. |
| Latin | E Reffell | |
| Latin | Filip Beunis | I have quite some experience with baptism, marriage, burial and other records written in (church) Latin, and would be happy to help translating records, looking for Belgian sources in Latin, or in any other way. |
| Lithuanian | Adrija Jackson | Lithuanian is my mother language. Fluent in English. |
| Mandarin | Willa Truter | English and Afrikaans seems to have loads of people already - but let me know if I can help. I could also perhaps help out with some Mandarin (Chinese) - and where I cant translate, I might be able to refer you to my friends that will be able to |
| Norwegian | A. R. McEnroe | I grew up bilingual in Norwegian and English. I am currently a masters student so I can't promise lots of time but I am happy to help. I also would probably be able to find a friend who could help if I do not have the time. |
| Norwegian | Leif Biberg Kristensen | I'm a native Norwegian, and Project Coordinator of the Norway Project here on WikiTree. I'm a retiree and usually available during most of the waking hours of Europe. |
| Norwegian | Anne-Grethe Jacobsen | I am a native Norwegian speaker. I can help with translation and understanding of Norwegian records and documents. |
| Persian | valign="top" width="150" E Reffell | self taught |
| Polish | M. Kurdej | I am a Polish native speaker. I can help you in translation from time to time. I may have some piece of advice on searching for ancestors in Poland. I may help with documents in Polish, Russian or Latin. |
| Polish | Mike Choroszewski | I am English, I can read and speak Polish, although not fluent I would be happy to help. |
| Polish | Caitlin Arndt | Native English speaker, fluent in Polish. Can offer translation PL>EN or vice versa as needed. My education in Polish is formal but I have also lived in Poland. |
| Polish | E Reffell | self taught |
| Polish | Błażej Pęksyk | Native Polish. Ready to help. |
| Portuguese/Brazilian Portuguese | Vanessa | I am brazilian and can help translating records to English, German or Italian. |
| Portuguese/Brazilian Portuguese | Marcia Benjamin | I am brazilian and also fluent in English and Spanish. |
| Portuguese | Roland Arsenault | I know a bit of Portuguese and can decipher some records. |
| Portuguese | Arturo Cuellar | I'm from Mexico and fluent in English and Spanish. Also, I can help to read Portuguese. I like to help as volunteer in these three languages. |
| Portuguese | Jean-Marie Baltimore | Portuguese is not my native language but I lived more than 15 years in Brazil and have been married 3 times and still is married to a Brazilian. I'm willing to help translate Portuguese genealogical records to English or French. |
| Portuguese | E Reffell | |
| Portuguese | Ricardo Lindengrün | Portuguese is my native language. I can read and write english fluently. I can try to help with spanish, french, italian and galician. |
| Romanian | Radu Croitor | Radu can assist with translation of Romainian. |
| Russian | Ann Browning | I speak Russian. |
| Russian | Oleg Zhoglo | I speak Russian. |
| Russian | Leslie Durr | I can read Cyrillic, including handwriting, and assist with translation of documents in Russian. |
| Russian | Evelina Staub | I can help with translation of Russian documents into English and German, but I can't read handwriting. |
| Russian | Daria Olerinskaya | I am a native speaker and can read handwriting. |
| Russian | Stanislav Schmidt | I speak both Russian and German, and can assist with transcribing and translating both languages |
| Sinhalese | Kisholi Mendis | I am Sri Lankan and am a native speaker of Sinhalese (also identified as Singhalese). I have full speaking and writing proficiency and would love to help in any way I can. |
| Slovak | Caitlin Arndt | Native English speaker, advanced proficiency in Slovak. Can translate documents from SK>EN as needed. Not fluent, but very proficient in reading. |
| Spanish | Arturo Cuellar | I'm from Mexico and fluent in English and Spanish. Also, I can help to read Portuguese. I like to help as volunteer in these three languages. |
| Spanish | Ignacio García Schmidt | I'm a Chilean living in Australia at the moment, willing to help in translating to and from Spanish |
| Spanish | Brittany Schaefer | I am not a native speaker but I can help interpret some genealogical documents. |
| Spanish | Claire Cabler | Native speaker of English but quite fluent in Spanish. Willing to help with translation to and from Spanish. |
| Spanish | Marianna Campbell | I am not a native speaker but I can help interpret some genealogical documents. |
| Spanish | Katherine Venegas | I am a native Spanish speaker. |
| Spanish | E Reffell | |
| Spanish | ||
| Spanish | Santi Díaz de Argandoña | Spanish is my native language. I also speak Basque and some French. |
| Spanish | Guillermo "Willi" Badino | I am a native Spanish speaker. |
| Spanish | Rubén GS | |
| Swahili | Oliver Stegen | I am fluent in Swahili (widespread in East Africa) and could offer to translate Swahili texts into German or English. |
| Swedish | Anders Lanzén | I am Swedish but living in the Spanish Basque country and also speak Basque (euskera). |
| Swedish | Dudley Hicks | I have been living in Sweden for almost 50 years and speak and read Swedish fluently. I also have access to records in the Swedish National Archives in Gothenburg and I can help with seaching the archives and the translation of the results, if necessary. |
| Swedish | Lena Svensson | A native of Sweden. Fluent in English so I can help you understand Swedish records and documents.. |
| Swedish | Maria Lundholm | A native of Sweden. Can assist in translation Swedish to English. Understands written Danish and Norwegian quite well. |
| Swedish | Juha Soini | Finnish is my native language and I live in Finland. I used to live in Sweden and am fluent in Swedish as well as quite good at English. |
| Swedish | E Reffell | plus Old Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian Bokmaal and Nynorsk with a bit of Faroese and Modern Icelandic |
| Tagalog | Raymund Jay Pabalat | Natively fluent in spoken and written Tagalog, would be glad to help with anything. |
| Turkish | ShiraDestinie JonesLandrac | Conversant in spoken and written Turkish, can help with post-Ataturk documents. Also fully fluent in Spanish (Castillian and Mexican) and French (of France), rusty modern Hebrew. ShiraDest |
| Ukrainian | Andriy Tymchenko | Grown up bilingual Ukrainian and Russian, both mother tongues. With fluent English and few other languages on my belt. Decades ago passed military translator EN->RU on graduation. Can help anything UA<->EN related, large translations might take lead time and time to finish. |
| Welsh | Gareth Jones | Native Welsh and English speaker. I can help to translate anything between these languages, in either direction. |
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Willi
Working on the cosmonauts at the moment if any other Russian speakers would like to help
Regards, Ann
edited by Ann Browning
I added myself to the list above and speak and read fluently in English and almost fluently in Afrikaans as well as being able to contribute basic Dutch reading skills.
I speak Portuguese fluently and have gotten VERY good at reading those horribly written Brazilian records... I am VERY happy to provide support regarding these records.
Best, Adriana
I am a native German and offer to help translate German documents into English. Since I can read many old German handwritings, I am also able to transcribe and then translate them. I can even say that I love to extract the secrets from these old scripts. I would like to participate in this group. Kind regards Dieter
I have awarded the Language Volunteers badge to you and added you to the list of volunteers at: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Language_volunteers I copied part of the text from your message to your entry on the Language Volunteers page. Feel free to edit it if it does not suit. Thanks for volunteering and helping to make WikiTree a friendly place for all. Regards Paul
I have an other question. I saw the German Glossary and I wrote for my own usage a glossary, which contains about 1000 terms at the moment and it is growing every day with new terms. It is possible to add the list to the glossary page, even if I have to do that manually word by word. I think it will be a great help for english speaking people who are searching in old German documents. Thanks for your help in advance Dieter
Something like "For a much more extensive glossary see....." perhaps?
Thanks for help.
I have finished my Free Space Page: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:German-English_Glossary&public=1 The ID is: Space:German-English_Glossary If you are so kind to link the german-english glossary to the page it would be great. Thank you very much.
I am French and would like to help for any request Can you explain me how to join the volunteer corp
Thierry
Gilberte
I'm mexican Spanish is my mother language, but fluent in French and English, I can manage to understad Swedish so please add me to the list for helping
edited by Mariana Lisci
Thank you for your offer of assistance in those languages! Are you interested in joining WikiTree as a full member? If so, you will need to volunteer, you can do this from your Navigation page, just add tags showing your genealogical interests e.g. surnames you are researching, and in the comments box by them add the location/relationship to you, then click on the green box that says "Save tags and volunteer" and we will then be able to confirm you as a member.
Volunteering means you will help us achieve our goal of joining all individual family trees into one global family tree.
Take care
Azure~ WikiTree Greeter
Tamara
Thanks
Hilary ~ WikiTree Greeter
I know fluent portuguese, german and english if needed.
I have had a message from a member who volunteered a week ago, appreciate it if a German speaker could some one contact as he indicates he is having trouble finding his way around
Peter he appears to be a native German speaker so may require some assistance to find his way around
Thanks Guys
Janet - Greeter
Hope I can help.
A.
I noticed you already are added, but for everyone who follows, you can just add your WikiTree ID to this page, see the instructions that are added now above the list.
And...the language volunteers are not all added to this page as managers or the trusted list, so they don't receive notifications of the messages posted here, if someone needs help they can just contact a volunteer by clicking on the name link and ask for the help in a post at their profile or by sending them a private message.
Hope it helps and thanks for mentioning it, I hope the instructions added to the page make it a bit more clear,
Greets from the Netherlands,
Bea :)
I'm fluent in Hungarian and have some experience with translating genealogical records into English. (I can also often manage the basic sort of Latin that occurs in church registers.)