2025 Legacy Family Tree Webinars series announced — adds members-only AI series, and Genealogy Guys Learn library

Geoff Rasmussen

30 Dec 2024

MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars are pleased to announce that registration is now open for its 2025 Legacy Family Tree Webinars series, now in its 15th year. Choose from 173 classes taught by genealogy’s leading educators which includes two brand new series: Artificial Intelligence for Genealogists (members-only series), and the Genealogy Guys Learn series.

The new year will feature 132 speakers from 17 countries. We welcome 35 newcomers to the webinar series including Drew Smith (from The Genealogy Guys), Michael John Neill (author of Genealogy Tips of the Day), Bonnie Wade Mucia (Director of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants’ Silver Books Project), David Allen Lambert (Chief Genealogist at American Ancestors), and Mark Thompson (co-host of the The Family History AI Show).

Brand New Members-Only Series: Artificial Intelligence for Genealogists

Our genealogy industry’s leaders in the integration of genealogy and artificial intelligence will meet with our webinar members as a private group each month. They will introduce new techniques and technology, provide real-life genealogy applications, and help us learn how to apply AI with down-to-earth examples and step-by-step instructions. This series is accessible only with a webinar membership. Webinar members have access to the live events, the class replays, and the class syllabus materials. Must be signed in as a member to register and attend.

Brand New Members-Only Series: Genealogy Guys Learn

The popular genealogy education series, Genealogy Guys Learn with George Morgan and Drew Smith, has a new home here at Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Throughout the year (probably twice each month) their well-designed and well-tested genealogy training classes will be added to our webinar library. Their pre-recorded classes will appear at https://familytreewebinars.com/genealogyguys, will be free for a week, and then accessible to anyone with a webinar membership.

Webinar Wednesdays

Join us each Wednesday for “Webinar Wednesday”. Reserve Wednesdays at 2pm (Eastern U.S. time) or for the night owls, the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm.

We will ALSO continue to offer other unique classes.

England Counties Research – Got ancestors from England? You’ll enjoy the England Counties Research series, now in its second year. Learn from these experts: Jude Rhodes, Gill Thomas, Kelly Cornwell, Sarah Pettyfer, Mia Bennett, and Nicholas Dixon.

MyHeritage Webinars – For the ninth year, we will be the host of the exclusive webinar series, MyHeritage Webinars, where we will learn from both leading genealogists about how they use MyHeritage and from MyHeritage Product Managers about what’s new at MyHeritage.

BCG – We are proud to once again host the monthly webinar series for the Board for Certification of Genealogists where we will learn from board-certified genealogists Karen Stanbary, Diane Boumenot, Annette Burke Lyttle, Sharon Hoyt, C. Ann Staley, Denise Cross, Craig R. Scott, Judy G. Russell, Angela Harris, Nicole Gilkison LaRue, Michelle Goodrum, and Eva Holmes.

Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series – Once again in October we will host the annual Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series. Attend in person at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, or attend via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

Down Under – The Down Under series continues into its seventh year! This series of webinars is designed for genealogists in Australia and New Zealand – at 12pm (noon) on the first Wednesday of each month (Sydney time). And new for 2025 – New Zealand’s Fiona Brooker will host five of these webinars at 7pm Sydney time. They’ll have their very own Webinar Wednesday with convenient timing.

African Diaspora – The African Diaspora series, in its fifth year, will broadcast live the first Friday of every other month starting in February and will deliver educational webinars geared toward African-ancestored people in the United States and around the world. Speakers for the 2025 series include Cynthia Evans, Adwoa Ulzen Setrakian, Chukwuki Emmanuel Ewa, Orice Jenkins, and LaDonna Garner.

O Canada – The O Canada series, also in its fifth year, will broadcast live the third Friday of every other month and will present educational classes with a focus on the broad range of ancestries found in Canada. Speakers for the series include Christine Woodcock, Kathryn Lake Hogan, Ken McKinlay, and Brian Nash.

Mexico Research – The Mexico research series, now in its fourth year, will broadcast live the third Friday, every other month, and will deliver educational webinars geared toward Mexican-ancestored people in the United States and around the world. Speakers for the 2025 series include Lisa Medina, Nefi Arenas Salazar, Joy Oria, and Colleen Robledo Greene.

24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon – Our 6th annual marathon will be held April 3-4. More than 62,000 registered for last year’s epic event.

Webtember – Our wildly-popular online genealogy conference is now in its fifth year. Mark your calendars for each Wednesday in September. New in 2025 – September 3 will feature a full day of German genealogy classes; September 10 will feature a full day of writing and publishing, September 17 will feature a full day on using MyHeritage, and September 24 will feature a full day about U.S. records.

Webinar Shorts – When you have just a few minutes, but want to learn genealogy, turn to our Webinar Shorts. Each how-to video helps you sharpen your genealogy skills in 20 minutes or less. New short videos will appear throughout the year. A membership benefit.

TechZone – Build your tech skills in 10 minutes or less. New videos will appear throughout the year. A membership benefit.

How to register

Sign up (it’s FREE!*) for one or for all of them today and you will receive a reminder email both one day and two hours prior to the live event. (*The “Artificial Intelligence for Genealogists” series is included free for webinar members.)

Webinar Brochure

Print the 2025 brochure to share with your friends, genealogy society, or FamilySearch Center.

FamilyTreeWebinars.com memberships

All live webinars are free (except for the members-only “Artificial Intelligence for Genealogists” series) and their recordings are free to watch for the first 7 days. With a webinar membership you get these additional benefits:

Access to 1) all the existing 2,300+ classes in the library, 2) plus the 170+ webinars that will be added during the 2025 season, 3) plus any additional bonus members-only webinars (hundreds of these so far) – all available for the duration of your membership
Access to all 9,000+ pages of instructors’ handouts plus the new handouts of the 2025 season
Chat logs from the live webinars
Chance for a bonus members-only door prize during each live webinar
Advanced navigation of videos with playlists and chapters
Exclusive section for all webinars you’ve registered for
Option to bookmark your favorites
Additional 5% off anything at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

It’s just $49.95/year.

Learn more or join.

Nowhere else – on land, at sea, or online – will you find genealogy courses as comprehensive, diverse, or as numerous as you will find at FamilyTreeWebinars.com.

2025 Speakers

Lots of brand new speakers join many of your favorites for 2025. One of them may be the one to help you break down your genealogical brick wall. Don’t miss even one week! We welcome these new speakers to our webinar series: