The recording of today's webinar by Diane L. Richard, "Fifty Overlooked Genealogical Resources in Fifty Minutes" 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 26 minute recording of "Fifty Overlooked Genealogical Resources in Fifty Minutes" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. If you have a webinar membership, it is available anytime.

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 1,464 classes of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 5,608 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

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

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The recording of today's webinar by Tal Erlichman, "See your ancestors like never before with MyHeritage's photo tools" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free.

Webinar Description

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 24 minute recording of "See your ancestors like never before with MyHeritage's photo tools" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. If you have a webinar membership, it is available anytime.

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 1,464 classes of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 5,608 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

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

Print the 2021 webinar brochure here.

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About the presenter

Tal is a Director of Product Management at MyHeritage and is responsible for MyHeritage's core genealogy service including the family tree, matching technologies and the historical records search engine. He leads a talented team of developers, QA engineers, product and project managers that work tirelessly to create the best family history research experience. From creating the best search tools, through publishing new historical record collections from all around the world, to building innovative features that create meaningful discoveries for our users on a daily basis. Tal is passionate about his family and family history in particular. He comes from a computer science background specializing in mobile security and was part of the LetMobile team acquired by Ivanti in 2012.

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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The webinar will be live on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at:

• 2pm Eastern (U.S.)
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1. Register at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com today. It's free!
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6. 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.
7. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone. 

We look forward to seeing you all there!

On the last Friday of each month, we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This month enjoy "Seeing the Patterns: Organize, Visualize, & Evaluate the Evidence" by Teri E. Flack. 

Seeing the Patterns: Organize, Visualize, & Evaluate the Evidence

This presentation will offer multiple ways of visualizing data to make it easier to analyze and evaluate evidence, discover gaps and missing information, see how pieces of the puzzle fit together, and uncover new paths for research.

About the Presenter

Recently I was reshelving some books in my home library and I came across my copies of some QuickSheets (not to be confused with the Legacy QuickGuides) written by professional genealogist Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL*. I’ve read these years ago but decided to sit down and take a second look.

I’m a firm believer that learning comes out of repetition. Not necessarily repetition that we all experienced in our school days where we memorized text and then were tested on it. Instead, revisiting materials (whether ancestral records or reference materials) and re-reading and studying them for new clues. What you glance over today might have more meaning for you in six months when you have more experience with a record, or you have a new research question. Genealogists should have some reference materials in their home libraries that they can come back to as new problems are studied and researched.

I was reading Elizabeth Shown Mills’ The Historical Biographer’s Guide to Cluster Research (THE FAN Principle) and came across this sentence about the census in the section on Applying the Principle to Common Resources:

Censuses also help identify a community’s unofficial record keepers—the doctors, lawyers, merchants, ministers, and school teachers whose personal records may survive today in a library or an archive.

Now, do I know that a way to better understand a community is to look at who is living near the ancestor in the census? Of course! But I like how Mills writes about it referring to certain people as … “a community’s unofficial record keepers…” I hadn’t thought of it that way before. These are the people who may have kept a diary, correspondence, a ledger, sales receipts, reports, and other records that may have been donated to a local repository such as an archive or museum. Our ancestors make an appearance in the records of the people who lived in their community and with whom they had contact with. Even when we think our ancestors left little in terms of a paper trail, they may have been mentioned in the records someone in their community kept.

Our research shouldn’t just concentrate on a single person or family but it should consider the community. It’s the community that left behind archival materials that need to be explored. Sometimes thinking about a familiar record in a new way can lead us to new discoveries.

*Watch Elizabeth Shown Mills webinars on the Legacy Family Tree Webinars website.

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.

The recording of today's webinar by Linda Harms Okazaki, "20th Century Immigrants to the West Coast" 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 and 16 minute recording of "20th Century Immigrants to the West Coast" is now available to view in our webinar library for free. If you have a webinar membership, it is available anytime.

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 1,460 classes of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 5,569 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

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

Print the 2021 webinar brochure here.

Test Your Webinar Connection

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About the presenter

Linda Harms Okazaki is a fourth-generation Californian, active in the genealogy and Japanese American communities in California and beyond. She is passionate about teaching individuals of all ages to research, document, and share their personal family histories. Her research areas of interest include upstate New York, England, and Australia, as well the use of DNA in genealogy. Linda has been researching her husband’s ancestry since 2012, documenting his family in the internment camps and in Japan. A charter member of the Nikkei Genealogical Society and a contractual genealogist with Ancestry.com’s Progenealogists, she is also a featured columnist for the Nichi Bei Weekly. Her column, Finding Your Nikkei Roots, is published bimonthly. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speaker’s Guild, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Linda currently serves as the past president of the California Genealogical Society and as a board member of the Nichi Bei Foundation. She works as a consultant for Densho, and has presented at FGS, Jamboree, NYG&B, and SLIG. Ms. Okazaki holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development and a Master of Arts degree in Education.

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.

Webinar time

The webinar will be live on Wednesday, March 249, 2021 at:

• 2pm Eastern (U.S.)
• 1pm Central
• 12pm Mountain
• 11am Pacific

Or use this Time Zone Converter.

Here's how to attend:

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. Check your GoToWebinar connection here.
6. 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.
7. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone. 

We look forward to seeing you all there!

The recording of today's webinar by Paul Milner, "Tracing Your War of 1812 British Soldier" 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 and 29 minute recording of "Tracing Your War of 1812 British Soldier" is now available to view in our webinar library for free. If you have a webinar membership, it is available anytime.

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 1,459 classes of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 5,563 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

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

Print the 2021 webinar brochure here.

Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar members a new short ten minute or less TechZone video just for them! This Friday enjoy "How to share access to AncestryDNA test results" by Paul Woodbury.

How to share access to AncestryDNA test results

Learn how to share your AncestryDNA results with others or give others access to your results.

About the Presenter

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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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The webinar will be live on Friday, March 19, 2021 at:

• 2pm Eastern (U.S.)
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Or use this Time Zone Converter.

Here's how to attend:

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. Check your GoToWebinar connection here.
6. 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.
7. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone. 

We look forward to seeing you all there!