Showing posts with label Webinars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Webinars. Show all posts

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Genealogy Webinar Marathon

MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars are running their 4th annual 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon April 13-14, 2023.  The entire event is free, and you can pop in for a session or two, or stick around for the full 24 hours – it’s completely up to you. 


Sessions include :

  • Solving Unknown Parentage Mysteries with MyHeritage DNA
  • The Secret to Finding Your Ancestor's Stories 
  • Genealogy A to Z : a Trivia Adventure
  • Slow Down - Planning you Research
  • To Have but No Longer to Hold : Divorce in Australia
  • Australian Indexes online for Family History Research
  • Different calendars in German Genealogy
  • Unearthing Treasures in the Irish Registry of Deeds
  • An Introduction to Investigative Genetic Genealogy
  • Finding the Original Recordwhen the Idex is Unclear
  • Elusive Ancestors : Never too Poor to Trace
  • And more...

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Webinars

 Legacy Family Tree webinars has announced a free of charge webinar programme, running throughout September.

You can join live for all four Fridays or just one, and if you can't, you can still enjoy the recordings at your convenience as they'll be free to view through the end of the month.

You can see the full programme at Legacy Family Tree Webinars and below are some of the highlights:

3 September

Teresa Steinkamp McMillin: CGLife, Liberty and the Pursuit of German Military Records

Anita Wills: Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Colour

10 September

Carol Baxter: British and Irish Given Names - Part 1

Debra Renard: What are the Odds? Finding Answers Using DNA Painter’s WATO Tool

17 September

Daniel Horowitz: Genealogy on the Go with the MyHeritage Mobile App

James Tanner: Researching Immigrants to New England in the Great Migration, 1620-1640

24 September

Paul Woodbury: Where Did That Come From?! Tracing the Origins of Unique Ethnicity Admixture

Lisa Toth Salinas: Beginning Hungarian Genealogy

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Free Webinars from Legacy Family Tree

The wonderful people at Legacy Family Tree are stepping up to help make time spent in lockdown at home a little more bearable for all us genealogists by launching a month of free genealogy webinars during April. 

Throughout their free month, one Legacy Family Tree webinar from the membership library will be unlocked and available to watch for free, and there’s a seven-day rotating theme:
• Sundays – Methodology
• Mondays – DNA
• Tuesdays – Ethnic Genealogy
• Wednesdays – Technology
• Thursdays – Around the Globe
• Fridays – Beginners
• Saturdays – TechZone

For the first 10 days, the schedule includes:
• Wednesday, April 1: Privacy: How to Protect Your Information Online, presented by Judy Russell
• Thursday, April 2: Untangle the Web of German Websites, presented by Teresa Steinkamp McMillan
• Friday, April 3: Getting Started in Family History – 1- Home Sources, presented by Cheri Hudson Passey
• Saturday, April 4: Google Alerts: Get Notified of New Content on Google, presented by Thomas MacEntee
• Sunday, April 5: FAN + GPS + DNA: The Problem-Solver’s Great Trifecta, presented by Elizabeth Shown Mills
• Tuesday, April 7: Jewish Genealogy’s Other Side: Sephardic Research, presented by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
• Wednesday, April 8: Crowdsourcing with Social Media to Overcome Brick Walls in Genealogy Research, presented by Amie Bowswer Tennant
• Thursday, April 9: Introduction to French-Canadian Research, presented by Michael Leclerc
• Friday, April 10: Genealogy 101, a 3-Session Course in Beginning Genealogy – Part 1, presented by Peggy Lauritzen

 So check out a few webinars this month and see how much you can learn about researching your family history.  A big thankyou to Legacy Family Tree and all their wonderful presenters for making these talks available.

Friday, March 24, 2017

State Library of New South Wales

The State Library of New South Wales has announced their program of free webinars. Each webinar will focus on the resources of the State archives collection and how to access them.
You can register to attend a webinar live - this will generate an email with a link that you click on at the appointed time to attend the webinar.  If you are unable to attend live, don't worry - the Library will also be recording the webinars so you will be able to view it at a time convenient to you simply by selecting the recorded webinar of your choice.
Currently the library has listed two upcoming webinars :

Using the NSW State Archives website
Date: Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017 10am - 11am
 
Tracing NSW Convicts
Date: Wednesday, 31 May 2017 10am - 11am