Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This Friday enjoy "Burials and Burial Grounds of England and Wales" by Kirsty Gray. If you're not a member,  remember the webinar previews are always free.

Kirsty is a professional genealogist and Heir Hunter who runs her own research company Family Wise Limited. As a freelance author, she has published articles in family, local and social history magazines and handbooks across the globe. She has been researching the story of her paternal West Country family for many years and, having realised in the late 1990s that her eccentric hobby was called a surname study, co-founded The Surname Society (registering the Sillifant surname) in 2014 to meet the needs of surname studiers in the 21st century.

 

In 2011, Kirsty took over from Penny Christensen as Director of English Studies for the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, updating previous courses and expanding the provision for online genealogical research courses about English records.

 

Having published Tracing Your West Country Ancestors in 2013, Kirsty is now working on Tracing Your Industrial Ancestors with Pen and Sword Books and is a founder member and was initially Chair (now Secretary) of the Society for One-Place Studies, an international society for family and local historians.

 

Although a relative youngster in the field of genealogy, Kirsty has been involved in family history for almost two decades and has lectured on various stages from local to international. Having traded in her day job as a teacher to follow her passion, Kirsty is widely sought after as a family history tutor, lecturer and motivational speaker in the UK.

The recording of today's webinar "Texas Genealogy: Online Research in the Lone Star State" by Deena Coutant is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

An introductory look at the records and repositories for getting started in Texas Research.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 32 minute recording of "Texas Genealogy: Online Research in the Lone Star State" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

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• No Easy Button: Using “Immersion Genealogy” to Understand Your Ancestors by Lisa Alzo. October 4.
• Sweden's Multiple Naming Systems and How They Changed in the 1800s by Martha Garrett, CG. October 6.
• Past Conflict Repatriation: The Role of Genealogists and Methodology in Fulfilling Our Nation’s Promise by Jeanne Bloom, CG. October 6.
• Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Families That Came Out of Slavery by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG. October 6.
• Using Timelines for Correlation and Analysis by Jill Morelli, CG. October 6.
• Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong, and Other Assorted Courthouse Records by Ann Staley, CG, CGL. October 6.
• Systematically Using Autosomal DNA Test Results to Help Break Through Genealogical Brick Walls by Tom Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL. October 6.
• Southern States Migration Patterns by Mary Hill, AG. October 11.
• Is Your Society Growing? Social Media may be your saving grace by Pat Richley. October 13.
• Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard by David Ouimette, CG. October 17.
• The WPA: Sources for Your Genealogy by Gena Philibert-Ortega. October 18.
• Midwestern & Plains States Level Census Records by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA. October 25.
• Filling in the In-Between of the Jewish BMD by Rose Feldman. October 29.
• Introduction to the Use of Autosomal DNA Testing by Tim Janzen. October 29.
• Google for Genealogy: Search Tricks to Tease Out Information by Jessica Taylor. October 29.
• Discover Your Family History with MyHeritage's Unique Technologies by Daniel Horowitz. October 29.
• How to Pass Your Ancestors' Legacy to Your Grandchildren by Jessica Taylor. October 29.
• Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques used in Genetic Genealogy by Tim Janzen. October 29.
• Jewish Family Research Challenges by Garri Regev. October 29.
• Is this the End? Taking Your German Brick Walls Down Piece by Piece by Luana Darby and Ursula C. Krause. November 1.
• New York City Genealogical Research: Navigating Through The Five Boroughs by Michael L. Strauss, AG. November 8.
• Using Non-Population Schedules for Context and Evidence by Jill Morelli. November 10.
• British and Irish research: the differences by Brian Donovan. November 15.
• Research in Federal Records: Some Assembly Required by Malissa Ruffner, JD, CG. November 21.
• Understanding Alabama by Rorey Cathcart. November 29.
• Finding Your Roots in Catholic Records by Lisa Toth Salinas. December 6.
• I Thought He Was My Ancestor: Avoiding the Six Biggest Genealogy Mistakes by James M. Baker, PhD, CG. December 13.
• Finding Your Nordic Parish of Birth by Jill Morelli. December 15.
• The Law and the Reasonably Exhaustive (Re)Search by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL. December 19.
• Palmetto Pride - South Carolina for Genealogist by Rorey Cathcart. December 20.
• Problems and Pitfalls of a Reasonably Shallow Search by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL. December 27.

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Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.

How to Create an Ahnentafel Report (Intermediate)

An Ahnentafel Report is a condensed report that includes everyone’s Ahnentafel number and their vital events (birth, marriage, death, burial). The Ahnentafel number is based on their location in your direct line pedigree. You are always #1, your father is #2, your mother is #3, your paternal grandfather is #4, your paternal grandmother is #5, your maternal grandfather is #6, your maternal grandmother is #7, and then the pattern continues.  The mathematical formula in play is that a person’s father is double their number and the person’s mother is double plus 1. These numbers are based on the anchor person for the report. Most people use themselves as the anchor but if you use someone else be aware that the Ahnentafel numbers you see relates to them and not to you. You can use the formula on anyone that appears in the report. For example, in my Ahnentafel Mathew Robert Patton is #44. His father will be #88 and his mother will be #89.

To create this report all you need to do is open the Ancestor Book Report (Reports > Ancestor Book) and choose your anchor person (usually you). Set it for ALL GENERATIONS. UNcheck the boxes for a Table of Contents, Indexes, and a Title Page. You can of course keep these but I prefer to make this report as concise and compact as possible. On the PAGE LAYOUT tab make sure that "Start new page after each generation" is NOT checked. I also like to check the box to "Print names in bold." Now click the REPORT OPTIONS button. On the INCLUDE tab UNcheck every box. On the FORMAT tab the only box that should be checked is the “Remove one or more leading commas from locations” OR “Use short location names” (my preference). On the NOTES/STORIES tab leave everything UNchecked. On the SOURCES tab leave everything UNchecked. You can include sources if you wish but again, you want this report to be short, to the point, and easy to read. On the PICTURES tab leave everything UNchecked.

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Now Preview the report. I love this report! All of your levels of grandparents are grouped together. Here is a snippet from my personal file.

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You can also use this as a missing information worksheet for your direct line. If you go back to the OPTIONS tab (where you set the number of generations) check mark the first two boxes that are in the "Insert Underlines for Missing" section. This is what it will look like:

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I hope you find this report as useful as I have.

Find tech tips every day in the Facebook Legacy User Group. The group is free and is available to anyone with a Facebook account.

For video tech tips check out the Legacy Quick Tips page.  These short videos will make it easy for you to learn all sort of fun and interesting ways to look at your genealogy research.

Michele Simmons Lewis, CG is part of the Legacy Family Tree team at MyHeritage. She handles the enhancement suggestions that come in from our users as well as writing for Legacy News.  You can usually find her hanging out on the Legacy User Group Facebook page answering questions and posting tips.

Certified Genealogist is a registered trademark and the designation CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists®, used under license by Board certificants who meet competency standards.

An introductory look at the records and repositories for getting started in Texas Research.

Join us and Deena Coutant for the live webinar Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion. 

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Deena Coutant is passionate about creating family legacies that connect the past, present and future generations, through stories, photos or by uncovering the DNA of those ancestors who were previously lost to history. As a full-time professional researcher, genetic genealogist and photo organizer, she provides strategies to help her clients successfully discover, celebrate, share and properly preserve their families’ memories, leveraging modern technology to bring them from the obsolescence of the past into the digital age. Deena offers a unique blend of preservation services through her company, DigiDeena Family Heritage Solutions.

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Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This Friday enjoy "Ahead of the Times: Texas Newspapers" by Cari Taplin, CG. If you're not a member,  remember the webinar previews are always free.

Cari Taplin is related to Roy Rogers. Or at least that’s what her family told her. As a result, she has been working on finding her true heritage since the year 2000. She is a native of Wood County, Ohio but migrated to Wyoming, Colorado and now Pflugerville, Texas which is just outside Austin. Cari holds the Certified Genealogist® credential and has served in a wide variety of volunteer and leadership positions for several state, local, and national societies and currently serves as the Education Chair for the Austin Genealogical Society, and on the boards of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Federation of Genealogical Societies. As the owner of GenealogyPANTS, she provides speaking, research and consultation services. Cari focuses on midwestern states, methodology and researching family legends.

Tomorrow we leave to begin our 14th annual Legacy Genealogy Cruise, this year to the Pacific Coast cities of Astoria, San Francisco, and Victoria, British Columbia. We will sail on Royal Caribbean’s luxurious Explorer Of The Seas.

We've also got lots of Legacy classes and small group sessions planned. Here's our class list:

• Going Online with Legacy: Hinting, FindAGrave, Media Links and Publishing by Geoff Rasmussen
• Did I Get Everything? – Creating a Checklist for Genealogy Research by Thomas MacEntee
• Introduction to DNA Testing in Genealogy and Family History by MyHeritage's Mike Mansfield
• Researching with Legacy: Mastering Searching, Tagging and Hashtags by Geoff Rasmussen
• 10 Secrets You Should Know to Survive Windows 10 by Thomas MacEntee
• Small group and casual Legacy Q/A
• Legacy Family Tree: Especially for Beginners by Geoff Rasmussen
• Family Secrets: The Court Records Tell It All by Sharon Monson
• You Need a Search Strategy: Maximizing Your Results with Online Gen. Databases by Mike Mansfield
• What’s Been Done: Using Someone Else’s Genealogy Research by Thomas MacEntee
• Q/A and concluding remarks

Daily Blog

I'll let you know all about it, either here on our blog, or over on our Facebook page (or both).

Follow the ship

You can also follow the ship online. Always know where the Explorer of the Seas is here.

Webinars Unlocked

Our 7th anniversary webinar celebration will continue while we're away. Look for the 15 most-requested members-only webinars here. They're free through October 15.

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As has become tradition, I've also issued a Bon Voyage 10% off-anything-in-the-store coupon. Here's the code:

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It's good for 10% off anything at www.LegacyFamilyTreeStore.comor www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com through Saturday, September 30, 2017.

Thanks!

Our sincere thanks go out to our entire technical support and sales staff who will continue to provide sales and support services while we are away. Thanks Ron, Michele, Sarah, Marian, Jairmie, John, Debbie and Leonard for keeping us afloat!

The recording of today's webinar "WolframAlpha for Genealogists" by Thomas MacEntee is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

Wolfram Alpha provides solutions to questions such as “How am I related to my great-grandmother’s niece” or “What was the time of the sunrise on April 1, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois?” Learn how this unique site can expand your genealogy and family history research.

View the Recording at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 19 minute recording of "WolframAlpha for Genealogists" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

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• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 587 classes, 798 hours of genealogy education)
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• On-demand access to the live webinars' chat logs
• 5% off all products at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com (must be logged in at checkout)
• Access to all future recordings for the duration of their membership
• Chance for a members-only door prize during each live webinar
• Access to register for bonus members-only webinars
• Ability to view which webinars you are registered for
• Use of the playlist, resume watching, and jump-to features

Introductory pricing:

• Annual membership: $49.95/year (currently 50% off until August 20, 2017)
• Monthly membership: $9.95/month

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Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

• Quick Guide to Texas Research by Deena Coutant. September 27.
• No Easy Button: Using “Immersion Genealogy” to Understand Your Ancestors by Lisa Alzo. October 4.
• Sweden's Multiple Naming Systems and How They Changed in the 1800s by Martha Garrett, CG. October 6.
• Past Conflict Repatriation: The Role of Genealogists and Methodology in Fulfilling Our Nation’s Promise by Jeanne Bloom, CG. October 6.
• Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Families That Came Out of Slavery by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG. October 6.
• Using Timelines for Correlation and Analysis by Jill Morelli, CG. October 6.
• Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong, and Other Assorted Courthouse Records by Ann Staley, CG, CGL. October 6.
• Systematically Using Autosomal DNA Test Results to Help Break Through Genealogical Brick Walls by Tom Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL. October 6.
• Southern States Migration Patterns by Mary Hill, AG. October 11.
• Is Your Society Growing? Social Media may be your saving grace by Pat Richley. October 13.
• Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard by David Ouimette, CG. October 17.
• The WPA: Sources for Your Genealogy by Gena Philibert-Ortega. October 18.
• Midwestern & Plains States Level Census Records by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA. October 25.
• Filling in the In-Between of the Jewish BMD by Rose Feldman. October 29.
• Introduction to the Use of Autosomal DNA Testing by Tim Janzen. October 29.
• Google for Genealogy: Search Tricks to Tease Out Information by Jessica Taylor. October 29.
• Discover Your Family History with MyHeritage's Unique Technologies by Daniel Horowitz. October 29.
• How to Pass Your Ancestors' Legacy to Your Grandchildren by Jessica Taylor. October 29.
• Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques used in Genetic Genealogy by Tim Janzen. October 29.
• Jewish Family Research Challenges by Garri Regev. October 29.
• Is this the End? Taking Your German Brick Walls Down Piece by Piece by Luana Darby and Ursula C. Krause. November 1.
• New York City Genealogical Research: Navigating Through The Five Boroughs by Michael L. Strauss, AG. November 8.
• Using Non-Population Schedules for Context and Evidence by Jill Morelli. November 10.
• British and Irish research: the differences by Brian Donovan. November 15.
• Research in Federal Records: Some Assembly Required by Malissa Ruffner, JD, CG. November 21.
• Understanding Alabama by Rorey Cathcart. November 29.
• Finding Your Roots in Catholic Records by Lisa Toth Salinas. December 6.
• I Thought He Was My Ancestor: Avoiding the Six Biggest Genealogy Mistakes by James M. Baker, PhD, CG. December 13.
• Finding Your Nordic Parish of Birth by Jill Morelli. December 15.
• The Law and the Reasonably Exhaustive (Re)Search by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL. December 19.
• Palmetto Pride - South Carolina for Genealogist by Rorey Cathcart. December 20.
• Problems and Pitfalls of a Reasonably Shallow Search by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL. December 27.

Print the 2017 webinar brochure here.

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The recording of tonight's webinar by the Board for Certification of Genealogists, "When Does Newfound Evidence Overturn a Proved Conclusion?" by Tom Jones, PhD, CG, CGL is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/BCG for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

Even thorough research can miss relevant sources. What are the options when useful information or DNA test results appear after a researcher establishes a conclusion?

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 19 minute recording of "When Does Newfound Evidence Overturn a Proved Conclusion?" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

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• 5% off all products at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com (must be logged in at checkout)
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• Chance for a members-only door prize during each live webinar
• Access to register for bonus members-only webinars
• Ability to view which webinars you are registered for
• Use of the playlist, resume watching, and jump-to features

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• Monthly membership: $9.95/month

Click here to subscribe.

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

• WolframAlpha for Genealogists by Thomas MacEntee. September 20.
• Quick Guide to Texas Research by Deena Coutant. September 27.
• No Easy Button: Using “Immersion Genealogy” to Understand Your Ancestors by Lisa Alzo. October 4.
• Sweden's Multiple Naming Systems and How They Changed in the 1800s by Martha Garrett, CG. October 6.
• Past Conflict Repatriation: The Role of Genealogists and Methodology in Fulfilling Our Nation’s Promise by Jeanne Bloom, CG. October 6.
• Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Families That Came Out of Slavery by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG. October 6.
• Using Timelines for Correlation and Analysis by Jill Morelli, CG. October 6.
• Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong, and Other Assorted Courthouse Records by Ann Staley, CG, CGL. October 6.
• Systematically Using Autosomal DNA Test Results to Help Break Through Genealogical Brick Walls by Tom Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL. October 6.
• Southern States Migration Patterns by Mary Hill, AG. October 11.
• Is Your Society Growing? Social Media may be your saving grace by Pat Richley. October 13.
• Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard by David Ouimette, CG. October 17.
• The WPA: Sources for Your Genealogy by Gena Philibert-Ortega. October 18.
• Midwestern & Plains States Level Census Records by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA. October 25.
• Filling in the In-Between of the Jewish BMD by Rose Feldman. October 29.
• Introduction to the Use of Autosomal DNA Testing by Tim Janzen. October 29.
• Google for Genealogy: Search Tricks to Tease Out Information by Jessica Taylor. October 29.
• Discover Your Family History with MyHeritage's Unique Technologies by Daniel Horowitz. October 29.
• How to Pass Your Ancestors' Legacy to Your Grandchildren by Jessica Taylor. October 29.
• Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques used in Genetic Genealogy by Tim Janzen. October 29.
• Jewish Family Research Challenges by Garri Regev. October 29.
• Is this the End? Taking Your German Brick Walls Down Piece by Piece by Luana Darby and Ursula C. Krause. November 1.
• New York City Genealogical Research: Navigating Through The Five Boroughs by Michael L. Strauss, AG. November 8.
• Using Non-Population Schedules for Context and Evidence by Jill Morelli. November 10.
• British and Irish research: the differences by Brian Donovan. November 15.
• Research in Federal Records: Some Assembly Required by Malissa Ruffner, JD, CG. November 21.
• Understanding Alabama by Rorey Cathcart. November 29.
• Finding Your Roots in Catholic Records by Lisa Toth Salinas. December 6.
• I Thought He Was My Ancestor: Avoiding the Six Biggest Genealogy Mistakes by James M. Baker, PhD, CG. December 13.
• Finding Your Nordic Parish of Birth by Jill Morelli. December 15.
• The Law and the Reasonably Exhaustive (Re)Search by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL. December 19.
• Palmetto Pride - South Carolina for Genealogist by Rorey Cathcart. December 20.
• Problems and Pitfalls of a Reasonably Shallow Search by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL. December 27.

Print the 2017 webinar brochure here.

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Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques. 

Tuesday's Tip - Using Legacy with AniMap (Intermediate)

I was entering information from a death certificate into Legacy when I ran into a problem. The death certificate stated that the deceased was born in Salley, South Carolina in 1845. I knew that Salley was in Aiken County but when I tried to enter Salley, Aiken, South Carolina, United States into Legacy I received a warning message. I got this warning because I have the US County Verifier turned on in Options > Customize > Data Entry > Option 2.1. This lets me know when I have entered a county that didn't exist at the time of my event. 

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I clicked the Online County Info button which brought me to the Aiken County, South Carolina FamilySearch Wiki Page. There I found, “10 March 1871: Aiken was created from Barnwell, Edgefield, Lexington and Orangeburg Counties.”  So the question is, which of these four counties was Salley in in 1845?  This is where AniMap can help. Many Legacy users already have AniMap and use it in their research so I wanted to show you how Legacy and AniMap can work together. AniMap allows me to pinpoint a specific location and then I can see how the state and county boundaries changed around that location over time. I chose 1832 because that is the date of the last boundary changes prior to 1845.

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Salley was in Orangeburg County in 1845. Now I can enter the correct information into Legacy. You always want to record your location as it was at the time of the event. Not all boundary changes are this complex. If I had entered Forrest County, Mississippi, Legacy would have told me that Forrest County was formed from Perry County in 1906. In this case I would already have my answer and wouldn't need to go any further.

Geoff gives an overview of AniMap, Centennia, and Map My Family Tree in Mapping Software for Genealogists. He also demonstrates how the US County Verifier works. In this webinar you will see that Geoff is using Legacy 7.4. In Legacy 8 and 9 the US County Verifier warning screen now has two more buttons giving you even more information to work with. You will also learn how to run a County Verifier Report that will check your entire file for these warnings. In Legacy 8 and 9 you can access this report by going to Tools > US County Verifier.  In the drop down box choose USA County Verification. 

AniMap is owned by Gold Bug and you can read more about it here.

Find tech tips every day in the Facebook Legacy User Group. The group is free and is available to anyone with a Facebook account.

For video tech tips check out the Legacy Quick Tips page.  These short videos will make it easy for you to learn all sort of fun and interesting ways to look at your genealogy research.

Michele Simmons Lewis, CG is part of the Legacy Family Tree team at MyHeritage. She handles the enhancement suggestions that come in from our users as well as writing for Legacy News.  You can usually find her hanging out on the Legacy User Group Facebook page answering questions and posting tips.

Certified Genealogist is a registered trademark and the designation CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists®, used under license by Board certificants who meet competency standards.

Wolfram Alpha provides solutions to questions such as “How am I related to my great-grandmother’s niece” or “What was the time of the sunrise on April 1, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois?” Learn how this unique site can expand your genealogy and family history research.

Join us and Thomas MacEntee for the live webinar Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion. 

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About the presenter

What happens when a "tech guy" with a love for history gets laid off during The Great Recession of 2008? You get Thomas MacEntee, a genealogy professional who's also a blogger, educator, author, social media connector, online community builder and more.

 

Thomas was laid off after a 25-year career in the information technology field, so he started his own genealogy-related business called High Definition Genealogy. He also created an online community of over 3,000 family history bloggers known as GeneaBloggers. His most recent endeavor, Hack Genealogy, is an attempt to "re-purpose today's technology for tomorrow's genealogy."

 

Thomas describes himself as a lifelong learner with a background in a multitude of topics who has finally figured out what he does best: teach, inspire, instigate, and serve as a curator and go-to-guy for concept nurturing and inspiration. Thomas is a big believer in success, and that we all succeed when we help each other find success.

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1. Register at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com today. It's free!
2. You will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the webinar.
3. You will receive a reminder email both 1 day and 1 hour prior to the live webinar.
4. Calculate your time zone by clicking here.
5. Make sure you have the latest version of Java installed on your computer. Check at www.java.com.
6. Check your GoToWebinar connection here.
7. Click on the webinar link (found in confirmation and reminder emails) prior to the start of the webinar. Arrive early as the room size is limited to the first 1,000 arrivals that day.
8. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone.

We look forward to seeing you all there!