Top 10 genealogy webinars PLUS the #1 rated — April 2023

Geoff Rasmussen

01 May 2023

We've tallied the numbers and made a list of the Top 10 most-watched FamilyTreeWebinars.com classes for April 2023! Are your favorite topics or instructors among the list? Need something new to learn? Use the list to get inspired!

Each month thousands of Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers head for the library to learn new skills and techniques to help improve their genealogy research. Among the now-1,972 genealogy classes in the members-only library, these were the most watched during the month of April 2023. They aren't necessarily the newest classes but rather the topics that were sought out by our members.

Have you seen any of these classes? Are these among your favorites too? Some of these classes (and topics) might be new to you! Get inspired to learn more and make your genealogy journey more fun!

The Top 10 for April 2023

1. Elusive Ancestors: Never Too Poor to Trace by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

2. Margaret’s Baby’s Father & The Lessons He Taught Me by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

3. Okay, I ‘Got the Neighbors’—Now What Do I Do with Them?! by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

4. Covering Your Bases: An Introduction to Autosomal DNA Coverage by Paul Woodbury, MEd., AG

5. Using Chromosome Browsers, Segment Data and Triangulation by Michelle Leonard

6. ‘What are the Odds?’ An online tool that can help solve DNA puzzles by Jonny Perl

7. Where Did That Come From?! Tracing the Origins of Unique Ethnicity Admixture by Paul Woodbury, MEd., AG

8. Off the Shelf: The Unexplored Potential for eBooks in Genealogy by Cyndi Ingle

9. When Enough is Enough by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL

10. PERSI 2.0: The New PERSI for Everyone by Sunny Morton

The Runner-Ups

11. Finding the Original Record When the Index is Unclear by J. Mark Lowe, FUGA

12. Tick Marks and Number Counts: Understanding and Using the Slave Schedules by Renate Yarborough Sanders

13. Urban Mapping Tools by Rick Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA

14. Solving Unknown Parentage Mysteries with MyHeritage DNA by Michelle Leonard

15. Smiths & Joneses: Success with Families of Common Name by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

16. Four ways DNA Painter can help with your family history research by Jonny Perl

17. Surname Origins – Why? When? Why then? by Wayne Shepheard

18. Liverpool: The Central Hub for Northern Europe’s 19th and 20th Century Emigration by Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv

19. Daughters of the King to Mothers of a Nation by Lianne Kruger

20. Slow Down – Planning Your Research by Fiona Brooker

The 2nd Runner-Ups

21. Genealogy A to Z: A Trivia Adventure by Thomas MacEntee

22. The “Forgotten” Immigrants: The Swiss to America by Michael D. Lacopo, DVM

23. Exhausting Research to Find an Impossible Immigrant! by F. Warren Bittner, MS

24. Unearthing the treasures in the Irish Registry of Deeds by Natalie Bodle

25. Uncovering Immigrant Origins Through Cluster Research by Dana Palmer, CG, CGL

26. New Developments of MyHeritage DNA by Gal Zrihen

27. Hidden in Plain Site: English and Welsh websites by Mia Bennett

28. Top 10 Tips for Genealogists on Social Media by Marie Cappart

29. An Introduction to Investigative Genetic Genealogy by Ugo Perego, PhD, MSc

30. The FAN Club Methodology, DNA, and Genealogy Lead Back to Lunatic’s Plantation by Melvin J. Collier

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