Top 40 Genealogy Webinars of 2025 + the highest-rated

In 2025 MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars brought you 225 genealogy webinars. 225 ways of finding your ancestors. Wow! We hope you’ve been able to find an ancestor or two and that you’ve enjoyed our Webinar Wednesdays, our 6th annual Genealogy Webinar Marathon, the MyHeritage webinars series, Webtember, TechZone videos, Webinar Shorts, the Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series, the African Diaspora series, the Board for Certification of Genealogists webinar series, the Mexico Research series, the O Canada series, the England Counties series, the AI for Genealogists series, and everything else we’ve brought you in 2025.

Thank you for being part of our webinar family. While every single webinar was fantastic, here’s the list of the top most-watched (in number of minutes viewed, not number of hits) webinars in 2025.

The Top 10 for 2025

• Researching the Great Migration of New England 1620-1640 by David Allen Lambert
• 10 Practical Uses of AI for Family History by Andrew Redfern
• Foundations in DNA 1 of 5: Introduction to DNA and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• Genealogy Meets AI: Panel Discussion by Andrew Redfern; Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.; Diana Elder, AG, AGL; Mark Thompson; Steve Little and Thomas MacEntee
• Streamlining Genealogical Research Plans with AI: A Step-by-Step Guide by Diana Elder, AG, AGL
• Picture the Past: An Introduction to AI Images for Family Historians by Steve Little
• Applying Research Standards to the Census by Diane MacLean Boumenot, CG®
• Foundations in DNA 4 of 5: Using Shared Matching by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• Shared DNA at a glance: the new DNA matrix tool by Jonny Perl
• The Six-Folder Genealogy Organizing System by Nancy E. Loe, MA, MLS

The Runner-Ups

• The Everleigh Sisters: A Case Study in Conflict Resolution by Karen Stanbary, CG®, CGG®
• Foundations in DNA 2 of 5: Understanding and Using Y-DNA and mtDNA by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• Creating an Ancestor Sketch by Thomas MacEntee
• The One Place Study as a Research Tool by Denise E. Cross, MSLIS, CG®
• Information Overload? Effective Project Planning Research Data Management & Analysis by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG®, CGL®
• Translating Transcribing and Summarizing Documents Using AI by Thomas MacEntee
• The Best Uses of AI for Genealogists by Steve Little
• Using Google Earth Web to Tell Your Family History Migration Stories by Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS
• DNA: Proof Citation & Privacy by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG®, CGL®
• Foundations in DNA 3 of 5: Understanding Autosomal DNA by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.

The 2nd Runner-Ups

• Lost and Found: Locating Ancestral Origins with FAN Club and DNA by Mary Kircher Roddy, CG, CGG®
• Collaborative Trees: Making Them Work for You by Drew Smith
• Civil War Records: What is a Reasonably Exhaustive Search? by Craig R. Scott, MA, CG®, FUGA
• Cluster Research Using the FAN Principle (2025 Reisinger Lecture) by Michelle Goodrum, CG®
• 10 Advanced Ways to Use AI in Family History by Andrew Redfern
• The Influence of Free and Cheap Land on Migration by Annette Burke Lyttle, CG®
• Top 5 Strategies for Researching Early Kentucky and Virginia Families by Gail Jackson Miller, CG®
• Hand-written Text Recognition: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Transcribe and Search by Yvette Hoitink, MLitt, CG®, QG
• 21 Million Reasons to Research at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Katy Bodenhorn
• Dear Me: Writing Research Reports to Yourself by Yvette Hoitink, MLitt, CG®, QG

And why not? The 3rd Runner-Ups

• Oops! Married twice (at the same time) Case Studies in Bigamy! by Helen V. Smith
• 10 New Tools for New York Research by Kory L. Meyerink, MLS, AG, FUGA
• See How it Works: Shared DNA Matches Find Ancestors by Diahan Southard
• Finding Frank Henry Hill by Angela Harris, CG®
• Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors in Local Archives by Melissa Barker
• From Statutes to Stories: Finding the Law for Family History by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGL®, FUGA
• Foundations in DNA 5 of 5: Understanding Ethnicity Estimates by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• Irish Ancestors – 5 More Essential Websites You Need to Know About by Natalie Bodle
• Finding Great-Granny’s Family: Four Words and DNA by Cathie Sherwood
• ‘A Matrimonial Advertiser:’ Tracing the Treacherous Trail of an Early 20th-Century Romance Scammer by Sharon Hoyt, CG®

The Top 10 MyHeritage Webinars

• Discovering Your Irish Roots: Uncover Hidden Stories and Sources with MyHeritage by Lorna Moloney
• MyHeritage’s OldNews.com is Good News for Genealogists by James Tanner
• Mastering the MyHeritage DNA Test by Richard Hill
• Leveraging MyHeritage DNA Tools to Make New Discoveries by Ran Snir
• MyHeritage’s RootsTech 2025 Recap by Daniel Horowitz
• New Ways to get the most of your Smart Matches and Record Matches on MyHeritage by Alon Ehrenfeld
• Finding and Fixing Tree Inconsistencies by Wayne Shepheard
• How to Use MyHeritage DNA to Get the Most Out of Your DNA Test Results Even If You’ve Already Tested Elsewhere by Rick Crume
• 10 Surprising Things I Discovered about My Ancestors Using MyHeritage by Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.
• 5 Easy-to-Use Tools to Repair Enhance and Animate Your Old Photos on MyHeritage by Rick Crume

The Top 10 Webinar Shorts

• FamilySearch Full Text Search: Why aren’t you using it? by Brent Trout
• Organizing Your Genealogical Files by Drew Smith
• Mastering DNA Match Labels: Utilizing the Power of Your Notes Field by Dana Leeds
• Using AI to Translate German Church Records (and more) into English by Geoff Rasmussen
• Keeping Track of Surnames by Fiona Brooker
• Five Reasons to Build a Genealogy Website by Linda Yip
• An Ontario Genealogist’s Gem by Janice Nickerson
• Cyrillic for Genealogists by Jen Shaffer
• Getting Started in Family History – 12 – Avoiding Mistakes by Cheri Hudson Passey
• Filing – Unlocking Order in Chaos by Fiona Brooker

The Top 10 TechZone videos

• Creating Genealogy Images with ChatGPT by Natalie Webb
• Working With GEDCOM Files Using AI by Natalie Webb
• AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Get Genealogy Research Help by Thomas MacEntee
• 5 Ways to Use ChatGPT for Genealogy by Cheri Hudson Passey
• AI and Genealogy: Using AI for Social History by Thomas MacEntee
• What’s New in Legacy Family Tree 10 by Geoff Rasmussen
• AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Transcribe Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee
• AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Summarize Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee
• How I Fixed My Son’s Senior Picture with Photoshop’s Generative Expand tool by Geoff Rasmussen
• Machine Translation: What is it and how do you use it effectively in your genealogy research? by Bryna O’Sullivan

The Top 10 Highest-Rated Live Webinars

• “A Matrimonial Advertiser:” Tracing the Treacherous Trail of an Early 20th-Century Romance Scammer by Sharon Hoyt, CG®
• Shootout at the Rhododendron Lodge: Reconstructing Life-Changing Events by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGL®, FUGA
• Scottish costume – The Kilt: fact, fiction and pure fantasy by Dr. Bruce Durie
• Translating, Transcribing and Summarizing Documents Using AI by Thomas MacEntee
• Foundations in DNA 1 of 5: Introduction to DNA and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• Foundations in DNA 2 of 5: Understanding and Using Y-DNA and mtDNA by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• Foundations in DNA 4 of 5: Using Shared Matching by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• From Statutes to Stories: Finding the Law for Family History by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGL®, FUGA
• Foundations in DNA 5 of 5: Understanding Ethnicity Estimates by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.
• Southern Ancestors…Black and White…in the Freedmen’s Bureau by Sharon Batiste Gillins

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Here’s to a fruitful 2026 – may we all make progress on our family trees!