Big News at FamilyTreeWebinars.com:
Introducing Learning Paths!
A major new tool to help you navigate 2,700+ genealogy webinars—whether you explore our 100+ pre-created paths or build your own custom path!
With over 2,700 genealogy webinars in the Legacy Family Tree Webinars library, one of the most common questions we hear from fellow researchers is: “Where do I even start?”
Today, we’re thrilled to launch one of our biggest new features ever: Learning Paths. Learning Paths are guided multi-session learning experiences comprising 3–6 webinars, curated and sequenced by experts to thoroughly cover a specific genealogy topic. Over 100 pre-created Learning Paths are ready and waiting for you to explore right now—guiding you step-by-step from foundational concepts to advanced, brick-wall-busting techniques.
Prefer to pave your own way? You can also use our new Build Your Own Learning Path tool to create personalized webinar playlists, track your study plan, and even share them with your local genealogy society, special interest group, or family members!
There’s a Path for Whatever You’re Working On
Instead of sorting through hundreds of titles hoping you land on the right one, Learning Paths make it effortless to dive straight into what you need:
- Just starting your family history journey? Begin with beginner-friendly foundations like Getting Started in Family History, Foundations in DNA, Foundations in MyHeritage.com, or Getting Started with Legacy Family Tree Software. No experience required!
- Want to get started using AI in your research? There’s a path for that—from Everyday AI for Genealogists to building smart research logs with AI.
- Overwhelmed browsing through our 300+ DNA webinars? If you want to understand your ethnicity estimate, there’s a 6-webinar path for that. Just want to master Y-DNA, X-DNA, or mitochondrial DNA? There are curated paths for those, too.
- Wrestling with tricky or conflicting evidence? Master complex methodology with paths like Studying Indirect Evidence, Negative Evidence, and the two-part series Resolving Conflicting Evidence: Part 1 – Methodology and Part 2 – Case Studies.
- Digging into core records or specific localities? Dive into multi-part series for censuses, land records, newspapers, cemeteries, and manuscripts—or explore dedicated paths for 13 U.S. states, 6 Canadian regions, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, and Italy.
Easy Category Filtering: Browse all 100+ paths at once or filter by Beginners, DNA Testing, Historical Records, Methodology, Places & Ethnicities, Technology, and more.
What is a Learning Path?
You can think of Learning Paths as mini-courses in specific genealogy topics. Each Learning Path brings together 3 to 6 hand-picked webinars into one guided experience designed to help you master that topic. Instead of spending hours hunting through the library to figure out what you need to learn next, you get a clear roadmap designed to build real research skills, one session at a time.
| ✓ Track Your Progress: An easy-to-use progress tracker keeps your spot, so you always know what you’ve finished and what’s coming up next. |
| ✓ Earn Certificates: Complete a path and celebrate your milestone with a printable completion certificate. |
| ✓ Thoughtfully Arranged: Every path is hand-curated and sequenced by experts so that each lesson builds logically on the last. |
Build—and Share!—Your Own Custom Path
Want to go off-map and create your own curriculum? With Build Your Own Learning Path, you can pick any webinars from our catalog, arrange them in whatever order you like, and build your own personalized learning plan.
Even better? You can share your custom paths with anyone:
- For your Genealogy Society or SIG: Build a path for your group so everyone can learn together at their own pace.
- For a Family Member: Want a relative to help with research? Pick the 3 to 6 webinars you want them to watch, send them the link to your new path, and turn them into your new genealogy research partner!
- For Presenter Fans: Have a favorite speaker? Build a path featuring just their webinars for a dedicated deep dive into their best teaching.
Free to Enroll, Build, and Earn Certificates
The Learning Path tools are built for our entire genealogy community to use. Enrolling in paths, creating custom playlists, tracking your progress, and earning certificates is 100% free for everyone.
Watching the webinars in a path follows our standard website access rules: free webinars remain free for everyone to watch. If a webinar in your path is part of our members-only library, a Webinar Membership unlocks instant, unlimited viewing for every video in the entire path.
(And yes, as the founder and host here at FamilyTreeWebinars.com, I might be a little biased… but I still think receiving that signed certificate at the end of a path is pretty cool!)
Ready to start exploring?
Your next research breakthrough is waiting in our library right now.
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