Take your genealogy skills to the next level with this FREE online genealogy conference, held each Friday in September: 25 live webinars in all. Join live for all five Fridays or just one, and if you can't, we've got you covered! Enjoy the recordings at your convenience — they'll be free to view through the end of the month.
Register here to attend the live classes.
The Schedule
Friday, September 1, 2023
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10:15 am eastern |
Connecting Generations through Probate and Property |
Teri E. Flack |
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11:30am |
Capturing their Stories: Best Practices for Recording Family History Interviews |
Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS |
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12:45pm |
Case Study: Finding My 3rd Great Grandfather: How X-DNA Led the Way |
Mary Eberle, JD |
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2:00pm |
Following Oral History in search of William Davis but finding Mildred Brand: A Case Study |
Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy |
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3:30pm |
DNA Matchmaking Made Easy on MyHeritage |
Shannon Combs-Bennett |
Friday, September 8, 2023
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10:15 am |
3-2-1 data backup is great, but first you need to find all of your data |
Thomas MacEntee |
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11:30am |
Italian Local and Parish Censuses |
Suzanne Russo Adams, AG |
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12:45pm |
10 Places to Search for An Ancestor’s Death Date… Without a Death Certificate |
Elizabeth Swanay O’Neal |
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2:00pm |
Life Cycle of a Record: From Clerks and Clerics to You, The Digital User |
Cyndi Ingle |
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3:30pm |
Explore Your Ancestors’ Names in the ‘Newspaper Name Index’ |
James M. Beidler |
Friday, September 15, 2023
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10:15 am |
Hidden Roots in Your DNA: Adoptee Success & Surprise Discoveries |
Richard Hill |
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11:30am |
So, You Think You Know All About City Directories? |
Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA |
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12:45pm |
Driven by Faith: The German Protestants in Ukraine |
Dave Obee |
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2:00pm |
Mexican Land Reform and the Ejido: History and Records |
Lisa Medina |
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3:30pm |
Diving into the Newly Released 1931 Canada Census |
Mike Mansfield |
Friday, September 22, 2023
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10:15 am |
10 More Things To Do Before Leaving a Library or Archives |
Melissa Barker |
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11:30am |
Hidden Treasure in New England Town Records |
Ann G. Lawthers, Sc.D. |
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12:45pm |
Lighthouses and Their Keepers; For Those in Peril on the Sea |
Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG |
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2:00pm |
Finding John Lee |
Nicka Smith |
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3:30pm |
Using Negative Evidence: The Power of Silence in the Records |
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL |
Friday, September 29, 2023
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10:15 am |
50 Family History Writing Tips in 50 Minutes |
Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A. |
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11:30am |
A Revolutionary War Case Study: Joseph L. Harper |
Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA |
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12:45pm |
Mini Case Studies Demonstrate Finding a Town of Origin |
Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, CG |
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2:00pm |
Welsh Emigration to North America |
Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv |
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3:30pm |
Worth More than Gold or Silver – MyHeritage’s U.S. Naturalization Records, Northern California, 1852-1989 Collection |
Sharon Monson |
Register here to attend the live classes.
As a newbie to all this I am very grateful to be able to view these at my convenience. Am looking forward to learning and maybe getting hooked. I find History of all sorts very interesting, and now it is time to learn my own. Thank You