We're excited to announce The 5th Annual 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon hosted by FamilyTreeWebinars.com and MyHeritage. The marathon will begin on Thursday, April 11 at 5pm eastern U.S. time (Friday, April 12 at 7am Sydney time) and end on Friday, April 12 at 5pm eastern U.S. time (Saturday, April 13 at 7am 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 cemetery photography and artificial intelligence & family history, to clustering with MyHeritage labels and beginning your genealogy journey, to Germany, Greece and Australia to Austro-Hungarian geography and the Picture Bride Era, 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.
How to Listen In
Register at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/24 (if joining via a mobile device, make sure to have the free GoTo app installed before joining). 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, DNA, and artificial intelligence. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silent Storytellers: A Genealogist’s Guide to Cemetery Photography | Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL | Fri Apr 12, 7am | Thu Apr 11, 9pm | Thu Apr 11, 5pm |
| Clustering with MyHeritage Labels | Michelle Leonard | 8am | 10pm | 6pm |
| Tracing Your Royal Navy Ancestors and the Ships on which they served | Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv | 9am | 11pm | 7pm |
| A primer on Austro-Hungarian geography | Dave Obee | 10am | Fri Apr 12, 12am | 8pm |
| Artificial Intelligence & Family History: An introduction | Andrew Redfern | 11am | 1am | 9pm |
| The Picture Bride Era: The Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 between U.S. and Japan | Linda Harms Okazaki | 12pm | 2am | 10pm |
| Searching for Your Family in NYC? Resources and Techniques at MyHeritage and Beyond | Mike Mansfield | 1pm | 3am | 11pm |
| Why can’t I find it? Locating surnames in online databases | Carol Baxter | 2pm | 4am | Fri Apr 12, 12am |
| Exciting Discoveries – Organising Your Family History | Fiona Brooker | 3pm | 5am | 1am |
| Common Challenges in Greek Genealogy Research | Gregory Kontos | 4pm | 6am | 2am |
| What’s New & Exciting in MyHeritage’s Historical Records | Myko Clelland | 5pm | 7am | 3am |
| My Top 5 Websites for Victorian research in Australia | Shauna Hicks | 6pm | 8am | 4am |
| The Wilson Collection for New Zealand Researchers | Michelle Patient | 7pm | 9am | 5am |
| How to successfully research at a German archive | Andrea Bentschneider | 8pm | 10am | 6am |
| Scottish Genealogy – Are we a Clan or a Family? And can we have a Chief? | Dr. Bruce Durie | 9pm | 11am | 7am |
| Moving, moving, moving! Migration Patterns within Germany | Ursula C. Krause | 10pm | 12pm | 8am |
| Can’t Find the Family Bible? 10 Places You May Not Have Looked | Lisa Lisson | 11pm | 1pm | 9am |
| Beginning Your Genealogy Journey: 8 Steps to Getting Started | Cheri Hudson Passey | Sat Apr 13, 12am | 2pm | 10am |
| Unlocking Birth Records: Exploring Birth Dates and Alternate Sources | Lisa Lisson | 1am | 3pm | 11am |
| 6 Tips to Build a Family Tree for Busy People | Tara Shymanski | 2am | 4pm | 12pm |
| African American Research 101 – Reconstruction Era (Part 2 of 3) | Ari Wilkins | 3am | 5pm | 1pm |
| 10 Ways AI Can Help You Find Your Elusive Ancestors | Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A. | 4am | 6pm | 2pm |
| Using U.S. Church Records as a Brick Wall Strategy: Case Studies | Sunny Morton | 5am | 7pm | 3pm |
| What’s Your DNA Problem? Too Few Matches? Too Many? | Diahan Southard | 6am | 8pm | 4pm |
Looking forward to "seeing" you there!
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