2027 Call for Presentations—Legacy Family Tree Webinars

Help us build the next great year of genealogy education. We’re now accepting proposals for the Legacy Family Tree Webinars 2027 series, and we want your best ideas — the case study you can’t stop telling people about, the record set nobody’s talking about yet, the topic you know deserves a real audience. If there’s one area where we expect the biggest leaps in learning this year, it’s AI — so if you’ve got an angle on it, we especially want to hear from you.

Submission deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Whether you’ve spoken with us for years or you’re considering your very first submission, bring us what you learned the hard way — the lesson, the breakthrough, the record set that finally cracked a case. That’s what turns a viewer into a researcher who makes real progress.

Submission Formats

1. 60-minute webinars (plus Q&A) — our core format
2. Webinar Shorts — 20 minutes or under
3. TechZone videos — 10 minutes or under
4. Language-Specific Webinars — NEW for 2027! Our audience is global, and it’s time our lineup reflected that. We’re looking for presenters who can teach in French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, or Norwegian — any topic, any format above, delivered in one of these languages.

Formats We Especially Want to See

• Deep Dive Series. These were a runaway success in 2026, so we’re asking for more. Build us a 2–3 session arc on one meaty topic — a record group worth mastering, a case study too complex for a single hour, an advanced DNA methodology walked through beginning to end, or an AI toolkit built up skill by skill until attendees can really use it on their own research.
• Learning Paths — a new emphasis for 2027. If you (or a few colleagues) have standalone webinars that naturally build on one another, pitch them as a package. We want attendees to be able to follow a real progression — start to finish.
• Panel Discussions. Audiences loved these last year, and we want more. Gather 2-3 experts to bring their own perspectives to one topic — “How I Use AI for Genealogy” or “The One Genealogy Rule I Break Constantly.” Give us a range of viewpoints worth hearing side by side.

High-Demand Topics

• AI for Genealogy — come at it from every angle. One AI webinar can’t cover it all anymore, so we don’t want it to try. Pitch us your specific slice: AI as a research assistant, AI for writing family histories, spotting (and fact-checking) AI hallucinations in your hints, the ethics of AI-assisted research, or even AI tools that have nothing to do with genealogy but free up hours in your week for it. Our audience wants to know how you are using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others.
• Numbered, Curated Countdowns. Titles like “7 Underrated Archives for Norwegian Research” or “The 5 Tools I Wish I’d Found Ten Years Ago” reliably pull a crowd. Give us your best list.
• DNA — but push past the familiar. Parentage-mystery case studies are always welcome, but we’re hungry for new territory too: DNA for adoptees navigating different life stages, what to actually do after an ethnicity update, pairing DNA with an overlooked record type, or working through a case where DNA and paper trails flatly disagree.
• Foundational Skills. Solid beginner content, core methodology and case studies are timeless — keep bringing them.
• Historical Records & Events, particularly record sets that are newly digitized or still flying under the radar.
• Software & Technology, genealogy-specific or not — spreadsheets, file management, project tools, anything that saves a researcher time.
• Diverse Ancestries & Regions — Africa, African-American, Asia, Europe, Jewish, Scandinavia, U.S. states, Down Under, South America, Canada, Mexico.
• MyHeritage — we host the MyHeritage Webinar Series too, so anything tied to MyHeritage.com is a great fit.
• Organization. We slot in one or two of these a year. Tell us how you wrangle your papers, your files, your chaos.

Help Us Fill the Map: Places We Need You

Every year we take stock of the library and find surprising blank spots. Here’s where 2027 needs the most help.

The Three We’ve Never Touched

We have never — not once — run a webinar on Alaska, Hawaii, or Nevada research. If you know your way around the Last Frontier, the Aloha State, or the Silver State, consider this a personal invitation. You’d be filling a hole that’s been sitting empty for years, and we’d love nothing more.

International Gaps

Coverage is essentially nonexistent for:

• Portugal and Iberia beyond Spain
• South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa (our library has Nigeria and little else)
• India and South Asia
• Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand

If any of these are your territory, now’s the time — our audience is asking.

Thin Coverage Worth Strengthening

U.S. states — the South, the Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest are consistently underrepresented.

International regions — Eastern Europe (Hungary, Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia/Slovakia), the Benelux countries, Russia, Prussia, Ukraine, Greece, China and other Asian nations, and the Caribbean and Central/South America (Puerto Rico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica) remain thinly covered, some with only a webinar or two ever produced. Even Italy, despite 11 webinars, has no regional breakdown — if you specialize in a particular Italian region, that’s a gap too.

Record types — naturalization, tax, adoption, Catholic and LDS records, divorce, Freedmen’s Bureau, Poor Law, railroad, prison, school, voting, Social Security/SS-5, notarial, mining, apprenticeship, WPA, and transportation records could all use more depth.

Heritage & religious groups — Native American research is notably thin given how much interest we see in it. Same with Islamic, Eastern Orthodox, or Anabaptist/Mennonite records.

Time periods & conflicts — the Korean War, French & Indian War, Jamestown, the Mexican-American War, the Mayflower era, the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, and the Colonial period are all underrepresented. WWII deserves more airtime relative to WWI and the Civil War, and we have nothing at all yet on the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, or military service records after 1950 — if that’s your area, please reach out.

Do Your Homework First

Take a look through our webinar library before you submit. It’s the fastest way to spot where the real openings are — and to make sure your pitch brings something the library doesn’t already have. A new take on a familiar topic counts too; you don’t need to find virgin territory to stand out.

Submission and Compensation

Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 How to submit: Click here to submit

Compensation: $200 for a standard 60-minute webinar; $50–$100 for Webinar Shorts and TechZone videos. Speakers also earn ongoing monthly royalties tied to viewership.

We’re genuinely excited to see what you bring for 2027 — and maybe, just maybe, you’re the one who finally hands us our first Alaska, Hawaii, or Nevada webinar.

Onward to a great 2027 with Legacy Family Tree Webinars!