We're excited to announce The 4th Annual 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon hosted by FamilyTreeWebinars.com and MyHeritage. The marathon will begin on Thursday, April 13 at 5pm eastern U.S. time (Friday, April 14 at 7am Sydney time) and end on Friday, April 14 at 6pm eastern U.S. time (Saturday, April 9 at 8am Sydney time).
Visit www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/24 to register (free!)
You will learn how to trace your ancestors from the world's top genealogists and educators. From planning your research to DNA, from eBooks, German calendars and the FAN club, to Australia, Poland and Ireland, to the First Kansas/US Colored Troops 79th Regiment, there's something for everyone… in every time zone. And thanks to FamilyTreeWebinars.com and MyHeritage, the entire event is free! Pop in for a session or two, or stick around for the full 24 hours — it's completely up to you. There will even be time for Q&A and door prizes.
Actually, it's 25 hours
Stick around for an extra hour at the very end as we feature Elizabeth Shown Mills and her class, "Elusive Ancestors: Never Too Poor To Trace". This is part of this year's members-only webinar series, "The Best of Elizabeth Shown Mills: Genealogy Problem Solving". All classes in this series require a webinar membership to attend EXCEPT for this one. If you've been thinking about becoming a webinar member to have access to the entire series, come see what it's all about.
How to Listen In
Register at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/24. Live attendance for each session is limited to the first 3,000 attendees. If you can't join us in real time, we've got you covered: all recordings will be available afterwards absolutely free for a week. Beyond that, you can watch them anytime with a webinar membership to FamilyTreeWebinars.com.
The Lectures
Viewers will enjoy a wide variety of lectures of genealogy and DNA. Each class will be 45 minutes long including time for questions at the end. The full schedule is shown below.
| Title | Speaker | Sydney | London / GMT | Eastern U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solving Unknown Parentage Mysteries with MyHeritage DNA | Michelle Leonard | Fri Apr 14, 7am | Thu Apr 13, 9pm | Thu Apr 13, 5pm |
| Spanish & Latin American Records on MyHeritage | Daniel Horowitz | 8am | 10pm | 6pm |
| Liverpool: The Central Hub for Northern Europe’s 19th and 20th Century Emigration | Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv | 9am | 11pm | 7pm |
| The Secret to Finding Your Ancestors’ Stories | Janice Nickerson | 10am | Fri Apr 14, 12am | 8pm |
| The FAN Club Methodology, DNA, and Genealogy Lead Back to Lunatic’s Plantation | Melvin J. Collier | 11pm | 1am | 9pm |
| Genealogy A to Z: A Trivia Adventure | Thomas MacEntee | 12pm | 2am | 10pm |
| Ancestral Ink: The Social History Behind a Tattoo | Gena Philibert-Ortega | 1pm | 3am | 11pm |
| We Remember: Researching, Remembering and Commemorating those who served | Michelle Patient | 2pm | 4am | Fri Apr 14, 12am |
| Slow Down – Planning Your Research | Fiona Brooker | 3pm | 5am | 1am |
| Polish cemeteries online | Kinga Urbańska | 4pm | 6am | 2am |
| There is more at MyHeritage than family trees and photos | Fran Kitto | 5pm | 7am | 3am |
| To Have but No Longer to Hold: Divorce in Australia | Helen V. Smith | 6pm | 8am | 4am |
| Australian indexes online for family history research you might not know | Shauna Hicks | 7pm | 9am | 5am |
| Different calendars in German genealogy | Andrea Bentschneider | 8pm | 10am | 6am |
| Using MyHeritage to research Polish family history and to find living relatives in Poland | Zbigniew Stettner | 9pm | 11am | 7am |
| Unearthing the treasures in the Irish Registry of Deeds | Natalie Bodle | 10pm | 12pm | 8am |
| When Enough is Enough | Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL | 11pm | 1pm | 9am |
| Giving Them Their Glory: First Kansas/US Colored Troops 79th Regiment | Nicka Smith | Sat Apr 15, 12am | 2pm | 10am |
| Tell Better Family Stories with MyHeritage | Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A. | 1am | 3pm | 11am |
| Time: Calendar Changes & Moveable Feast Days Explained | Jill Morelli, CG | 2am | 4pm | 12pm |
| An Introduction to Investigative Genetic Genealogy | Ugo Perego, PhD, MSc | 3am | 5pm | 1pm |
| The “Forgotten” Immigrants: The Swiss to America | Michael D. Lacopo, DVM | 4am | 6pm | 2pm |
| Finding the Original Record When the Index is Unclear | J. Mark Lowe, FUGA | 5am | 7pm | 3pm |
| Off the Shelf: The Unexplored Potential for eBooks in Genealogy | Cyndi Ingle | 6am | 8pm | 4pm |
| Elusive Ancestors: Never Too Poor to Trace | Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL | 7am | 9pm | 5pm |
Looking forward to "seeing" you there!
Geoff, your computer graphic at top is a blast from the past for me as it looks like a late 90s era desktop and monitor. Windows 3.0 yes?
Definitely looking forward to this marathon. Thanks so much to your team and the presenters who make this possible.