- Research at archives or parish offices, e.g. Landesarchiv Duisburg
- Online research using subscription-based genealogy websites, e.g. ancestry.com
- Research using digitized LDS microfilms
- Search for emigrants and their descendants
- Transcription of old documents, deciphering old handwriting
- Translation of documents written in German, French or Dutch to English
- Photographing houses, churches, cemeteries
- Computerized data processing (scan documents, create gedcom-files, ancestor- and descendant charts)