The recording of today's webinar, "Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 8): The Smoking Gun” by Geoff Rasmussen is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 3 minute recording of "Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 8): The Smoking Gun"  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 825 classes, 1,070 hours of genealogy education)
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• 5% off all products at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com (must be logged in at checkout)
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• Access to register for bonus members-only webinars
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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 "Family Secrets: The Court Records Tell It All" by Sharon Monson. If you're not a member, remember the webinar previews are always free.

Family Secrets: The Court Records Tell It All

No matter what time period your ancestors lived in, they surely had a few secrets. Explore various court records that reveal family relationships and issues. Find answers to long-standing family mysteries!

About the Presenter

Sharon D. Monson is a professional genealogist, creator of the Genealogy Kit, and author of Shortcut to Genealogy Sources. She is a frequent  presenter at local, state and national conferences. Her extensive research experience in courthouses, repositories and the Family History Library spans 35+ years. Her blog at https://gensearchandmore.com features primary and secondary U.S. genealogical sources and skill-building research tips.  

 

See all the webinars by Sharon Monson in the Legacy library.

 

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Join us and Geoff Rasmussen for the live webinar Friday, November 30, 2018 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. 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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With our Google Calendar button, you will never forget our upcoming webinars. Simply click the button to add it to your calendar. You can then optionally embed the webinar events (and even turn them on and off) into your own personal calendar. If you have already added the calendar, you do not have to do it again - the new webinar events will automatically appear.

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8. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone. 

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The recording of today's webinar, "Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking” by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 19 minute recording of "Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking  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 823 classes, 1,067 hours of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 3,544 pages)
• 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

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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.

Find a Grave Options (Beginner)

There is a specific feature I want to point out because a lot of people seem to miss it. On the main Ribbon go to Search > Find a Grave. Notice that there is a little down arrow thingie (technical term) at the bottom right of the Find a Grave icon. Click that down arrow thingie and you get an enhanced menu.

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These are very useful options but unless you know where they are they will be no of use to you. There is one more feature I want to show you. On the Individual's Information screen you will see a field to record the person's Find a Grave memorial number. Notice that the label Find a Grave ID is underlined. That means it is a clickable hot link. If there is a Find a Grave memorial number entered, you will be taken to that person's memorial page. If there is no number entered, you will be taken to the Find a Grave search screen.

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Happy grave hunting!

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.

As you read here, here, here, here, here, and here, MyHeritage Live 2018 in Oslo was an incredible event! If you weren't one of the 400 in-person attendees or one of the 60,000+ live stream viewers, you can now view all 24 classes at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/mhlive2018 for FREE. 

Here's the list of classes:

Keynote Session

• A love affair with genealogy PLUS Industry-changing announcements by Gilad Japhet

DNA Track

• MyHeritage DNA 101 by Ran Snir
• MyHeritage DNA: Advanced Features by Ran Snir
• Success Stories: How MyHeritage DNA Brings Families Together by Roi Mandel
• The Five Best MyHeritage DNA Tools by Diahan Southard
• PANEL: DNA, Genealogy, and Privacy by Thomas MacEntee, Prof. Yaniv Erlich and Roberta Estes
• Why Take a DNA Test for Genealogy Research? by Mike Mansfield
• Genetic Insights from a Huge Collaborative Family Tree by Prof. Yaniv Erlich
• MyHeritage's Improved DNA Matching by Dr. Daphna Weissglas
• Two Ways to Approach Your MyHeritage DNA Match List by Diahan Southard
• How to Find Unknown Family with MyHeritage DNA by Christina Sagersten
• PANEL: What's Next for Genetic Genealogy? by Prof. Yaniv Erlich, Roberta Estes and Dick Eastman

Genealogy Track

• Turning MyHeritage Clues into Genealogy To Do's by Thomas MacEntee
• How I Use MyHeritage by Vidar Øverlie
• Researching with MyHeritage SuperSearch by Daniel Horowitz and Tal Erlichman
• A Guide to Scandinavian Records on MyHeritage by Mike Mansfield
• How to Find Your Family in Newspapers with MyHeritage SuperSearch by Lisa Louise Cooke
• What's Next: The MyHeritage Genealogy and DNA Roadmap by Maya Lerner
• Newspaper Research Strategies Using MyHeritage by Thomas MacEntee
• Matching Technologies: How to Discover Relatives Without Searching by Mike Mansfield
• An Introduction to Geni by Mike Stangel
• Using MyHeritage & Learning with FamilyTreeWebinars.com by Geoff Rasmussen
• An Overview of European Record Collections on MyHeritage by Mike Mansfield
• The MyHeritage Mobile App: Exclusive Features by Guy Tsype

Visit https://familytreewebinars.com/mhlive2018 to watch.

I’m a huge fan of the online resource Internet Archive. Why? Internet Archive is where you can find important genealogy resources that span books, periodicals, and microfilms. Have you used Internet Archive for your genealogy? If you haven’t, you should search it as soon as possible because it’s just possible you’ll find what you need. Below are five collections on Internet Archive that are my favorites and I bet they will soon become yours as well. 

Genealogy

It's no surprise that I mentioned  the Genealogy collection first. How can you not love a collection of nearly 140,000 digitized materials from repositories like “Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Robarts Library at the University of Toronto; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library; Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; the National Library of Scotland; the Indianapolis City Library's Indianapolis City Directory and Yearbooks Collection; The Leo Baeck Institute Archives of German-speaking Jewry;  and the Boston Public Library.” There’s bound to be something that interests you in this collection. Expect to find everything from family history surname books, to transcriptions, city directories, yearbooks and more.

Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center - Microfilm 

I don’t know about you but I’d much rather peruse microfilm from the comfort of my home than sit at a microfilm machine. So I’m a fan of this microfilm collection from the ACPL Genealogy Center. This collection includes the US federal census, records from the confederate states, Freedmen’s Bureau, military records, and more. To see everything that is included in this collection, see  Topics & Subjects on the left side of the page. 

Journals

The journals collection has a simple description, “A collection of scholarly literature created by experts and professionals in their fields. Included are theses, books, abstracts and articles.” So what that means for you is genealogy-relevant content from journals such as The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The Washington Historical Quarterly, and the William and Mary Quarterly. In the journals collection, search by the word genealogy, a surname, or a state to see what might be of use to you. One search I did on the keyword "women" brought up articles from the early 1900s discussing everything from teacher salaries to working hours of women in Chicago, and property rights of married women in Pennsylvania. Academic journals publish articles that can help us understand our understands life in context.

Smithsonian Libraries

There’s a couple different government libraries represented on Internet Archive but the Smithsonian is one new users may mistakenly overlook even though it’s full of materials with names that would be of interest to genealogists such as: Old Clocks and Watches & their Makers; American Indian Painters: A Biographical Dictionary ; and Makers of Early American Silver.

Cookbooks

The last choice for my favorite collection on Internet Archive is the Cookbooks and Home Economics collection. Sure, you may think that’s nice that I like cookbooks but you're wondering how a cookbook collection helps your family history. Good question! Search through this collection of historic cookbooks to find community cookbooks for the places your ancestor lived, cookbooks that include that favorite old family recipe, or even better understand what great-grandpa ate in the Army with the Manual for Army Cooks (1916). Yes, this collection is probably my favorite because of all that you can learn about your ancestor through what they ate.

Internet Archive is literally an archive available to you from your home. Sure, its Wayback Machine is an important tool for finding content on cached websites that have now disappeared and their image and video collections might also have something you’ll want to peruse. But for me, it’s the text and microfilm collections  that has the real hidden genealogical treasures.

Do yourself a favor and start browsing the Archive and see what it can offer you.

Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, instructor, and researcher. She blogs at Gena's Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera. You can find her presentations on the Legacy Family Tree Webinars website.

Did great-grandpa traverse this nation as he worked for the railroad? For which railroad did he work? Where did it run? Are there railroad records which may give us personal details? Visuals and references demonstrate the wealth of historical materials available all across the U.S. When this lecture is over you will know where to turn to find out more about the railroad, its records, and where to find them.

Join us and Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA for the live webinar Wednesday, November 28, 2018 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. 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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Here's how to attend:

1. Register at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com today. It's free!
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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.
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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!

Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This Friday enjoy a special release of four webinars in a Civil War series by Michael Strauss, AG. If you're not a member, remember the webinar previews are always free.

House Divided - Prelude to War

This opening session brings into the lecture some of the causes and effect of why the Civil War was fought. As the United States moves from Compromise towards war after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 to the opening guns at Ft. Sumter in South Carolina in 1861. This session also focuses on an introduction to the many genealogical records during the war including the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR) for both the Union Army and Confederate Army. Also covered will be Union Draft Records and their Confederate Counterpart which will include Confederate draft criteria.

Pension Files and beyond

This second session will be broken into two groups of records that relate to your ancestors who fought in the Civil War. The first section will spend time between reviewing pension files and applications for the both the Union and Confederate veterans as a primary source of documenting their lives during the war. The remainder of this session will focus on additional records including sources ranging from the Federal Census that include Civil War veterans, National Cemetery records, Civil War soldiers homes, Court Martial proceedings on both sides, and though conscientious objector records.

Researching Beyond the Army

This third session will cover genealogical and historical material that relates to organizations outside of the United States and Confederate Armies. Focus is placed on genealogical records on the United States Navy, Confederate Navy, United States Marine Corps, Confederate Marine Corps; and other smaller organizations that served including United States Coast Survey Service and the Revenue Cutter Service in addition to the United States and Confederate Lighthouse Service during the Civil War.

Reconstruction Era and Post War Society

This final session begins with the end of the Civil War and the start of Reconstruction in 1865. Numerous genealogical records are readily searchable in the years following the end of hostilities including; Provosts Marshal records Confederate Amnesty records, United States Sanitary Commission, Southern Claims Commission, and Freedmen’s Bureau and back home with the passage of the 1867 United States Bankruptcy Act. This lecture will conclude with as Federal troops are withdrawn from the south in 1877 and the beginning of the gilded age.

About the Presenter

The recording of tonight's BCG webinar, "Every Day Life of Our Ancestors” by Ann Staley, CG, CGL is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/BCG for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour recording of "Every Day Life of Our Ancestors” 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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Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 815 classes, 1,060 hours of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 3,514 pages)
• 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
• Monthly membership: $9.95/month

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