Webtember 2023: All Genealogy. All September Long. Sign up today (free).

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Take your genealogy skills to the next level with this FREE online genealogy conference, held each Friday in September: 25 live webinars in all. Join live for all five Fridays or just one, and if you can't, we've got you covered! Enjoy the recordings at your convenience — they'll be free to view through the end of the month.

Register here to attend the live classes.

The Schedule

Friday, September 1, 2023

10:15 am eastern

Connecting Generations through Probate and Property

Teri E. Flack

11:30am

Capturing their Stories: Best Practices for Recording Family History Interviews

Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS

12:45pm

Case Study: Finding My 3rd Great Grandfather: How X-DNA Led the Way

Mary Eberle, JD

2:00pm

Following Oral History in search of William Davis but finding Mildred Brand: A Case Study

Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy

3:30pm

DNA Matchmaking Made Easy on MyHeritage

Shannon Combs-Bennett

Friday, September 8, 2023

10:15 am

3-2-1 data backup is great, but first you need to find all of your data

Thomas MacEntee

11:30am

Italian Local and Parish Censuses

Suzanne Russo Adams, AG

12:45pm

10 Places to Search for An Ancestor’s Death Date… Without a Death Certificate

Elizabeth Swanay O’Neal

2:00pm

Life Cycle of a Record: From Clerks and Clerics to You, The Digital User

Cyndi Ingle

3:30pm

Explore Your Ancestors’ Names in the ‘Newspaper Name Index’

James M. Beidler

Friday, September 15, 2023

10:15 am

Hidden Roots in Your DNA: Adoptee Success & Surprise Discoveries

Richard Hill

11:30am

So, You Think You Know All About City Directories?

Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA

12:45pm

Driven by Faith: The German Protestants in Ukraine

Dave Obee

2:00pm

Mexican Land Reform and the Ejido: History and Records

Lisa Medina

3:30pm

Diving into the Newly Released 1931 Canada Census

Mike Mansfield

Friday, September 22, 2023

10:15 am

10 More Things To Do Before Leaving a Library or Archives

Melissa Barker

11:30am

Hidden Treasure in New England Town Records

Ann G. Lawthers, Sc.D.

12:45pm

Lighthouses and Their Keepers; For Those in Peril on the Sea

Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG

2:00pm

Finding John Lee

Nicka Smith

3:30pm

Using Negative Evidence: The Power of Silence in the Records

Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

Friday, September 29, 2023

10:15 am

50 Family History Writing Tips in 50 Minutes

Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.

11:30am

A Revolutionary War Case Study: Joseph L. Harper

Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA

12:45pm

Mini Case Studies Demonstrate Finding a Town of Origin

Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, CG

2:00pm

Welsh Emigration to North America

Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv

3:30pm

Worth More than Gold or Silver – MyHeritage’s U.S. Naturalization Records, Northern California, 1852-1989 Collection

Sharon Monson

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Register for Webinar Wednesday: Exploring the Records in a Slave Owning Community by Bernice Bennett

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This session will focus on the thousands of transactions occurring in Edgefield, South Carolina in a County that did not burn, therefore, these records revealed the value placed on a slave in this community. “In the antebellum South, a prime male hand was the overriding measure for determining prices for enslaved workers. Hearty, prime women who were good breeders also had a high market value. Other factors that contributed to the sale price of a slave were gender, age, and skill.”

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About the presenter

BerniceBennett-2021-144x144Bernice Alexander Bennett is an award-winning author, genealogist, nationally recognized guest speaker, storyteller, and producer-host of the popular Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalkRadio program. She is also the first recipient of the Ida B. Wells Service Award given by the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage for her dedication to broadcast stories about enslaved and indentured ancestors of African descent. She also received the Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS) Genealogy Award in 2019 for original research in support of African American Genealogy. Bennett is on the Board of Directors for the National Genealogical Society.

Bennett–a New Orleans native and current resident in Maryland–enjoyed a 35-year career in domestic and international public health. She received an undergraduate degree from Grambling State University and a graduate degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan.

Her genealogical research centers on Southeast Louisiana, and also Edgefield and Greenwood Counties, South Carolina. Her South Carolina journey is chronicled in Our Ancestors, Our Stories, which won the 2018 International AAHGS Book award for Non-Fiction Short Stories. Her second book Tracing Their Steps – A Memoir received the Phillis Wheatley Literary Award from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage in 2019 and the International AAHGS Book Award in 2020 for Non-Fiction Short Story.

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Webinar time

The webinar will be live on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at:

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

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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.
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  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!


Shackles, shekels and shrapnel: the exodus to the Southern seas - free replay of today's webinar by Michelle Patient now available for limited time

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The recording of today's webinar, "Shackles, shekels and shrapnel: the exodus to the Southern seas" by Michelle Patient is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

Changes in Britain post the 1776 War of Independence, along with Capt James Cook’s mapping of New Zealand (1769) and New South Wales (1770), led to convicts and marines being sent to Botany Bay in 1787. So began British migration to the Southern Seas. Factors driving various waves of migration (economic, political, family ties, adventure) will be discussed, along with the effects the British Diasporas had on the Aboriginal and Māori Communities and their environment. Tips on tracing those missing down-under branches of your tree will also be covered.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 12 minute recording of "Shackles, shekels and shrapnel: the exodus to the Southern seas" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time.

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

  • On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 1,831 classes of genealogy education)
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Webtember 2022: All Genealogy. All September Long. Sign up today (free).

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Take your genealogy skills to the next level with this FREE online genealogy conference, held each Friday in September: 31 live and pre-recorded webinars in all. Join live for all five Fridays or just one, and if you can't, we've got you covered! Enjoy the recordings at your convenience — they'll be free to view through the end of the month.

Register here to attend the live classes.

The Schedule

Friday, September 2, 2022

10:15 am

10 Best Self-Publishing Tips for Family Historians

Lisa Alzo

11:30am

Changing Places, Changing Borders: Overcoming geographic challenges

Dave Obee

12:45pm

Tracing migrating ancestors: Who, what, where, when, why and how

Myko Clelland

2:00pm

Descendants of the Enslaved and Enslavers – Working Together to Discover Family

Sharon Batiste Gillins and Cheri Hudson Passey

Pre-recorded

What You Can Learn from Lineage Societies…Without Being a Member!

Elizabeth M. O’Neal

Pre-recorded

Italian Civil Marriage Supplements

Suzanne Russo Adams, AG

Friday, September 9, 2022

10:15 am

Delivering the Mail: Records of the United States Post Office

Michael L. Strauss, AG

11:30am

What’s Next When You Are Told Those Records Were “Burnt Up”?

J. Mark Lowe, FUGA

12:45pm

An introduction to Filae: the largest source of French archives

Emmanuel Condamine

2:00pm

Understanding and Using Scottish Kirk Session Records

Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv

Pre-recorded

Settlers in California’s Sacramento Delta – History and Resources

Grant Din

Pre-recorded

Entering the Old Northwest Territory

Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG

Friday, September 16, 2022

10:15 am

Germany to Pennsylvania: 18th Century Odyssey

James M. Beidler

11:30am

Using Google Books to Find the Law

Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL

12:45pm

The Pros and Cons of Collaboration on Geni.com

E. Randol Schoenberg

2:00pm

Essential Immigration Records for Researching Your Mexican Ancestors

Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS

Pre-recorded

Famine and Family History

Wayne Shepheard

Pre-recorded

Can Americans get a legal Coat of Arms from Scotland?

Dr. Bruce Durie

Friday, September 23, 2022

10:15 am

Strategies to Jumpstart Your Research

Teri E. Flack

11:30am

A Deep Dive into the Map Collection of the Library of Congress

Rick Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA

12:45pm

Documenting Cemeteries with BillionGraves

Cathy Wallace

2:00pm

Mastering Digital Filing for Genealogists

Cyndi Ingle

Pre-recorded

Swedish-American Church Books – Great Genealogical Source!

Kathy Meade

Pre-recorded

Documenting Jewish Families in America: The Early Years 1654-1880

Ellen S. Kowitt

Pre-recorded

Fruit of the Earth: Using Deeds to Uncover Your Ancestors

Robyn Smith

Friday, September 30, 2022

10:15 am

The Top Ten DNA Do’s and Don’ts!

Michelle Leonard

11:30am

Separate Even in Death – Black Funerals and Cemeteries

Janice Lovelace, PhD

12:45pm

Indirect Evidence, A Case Study: The Parents of Elizabeth Wingate in Maryland (1795–1860)

Rebecca Koford, CG, CGL

2:00pm

50 Mostly “Hot off the Press” Net Sites You Want to Check Out!

Diane L. Richard

Pre-recorded

Four Keys to Creating Complete and Accurate Transcriptions (and Why You Should)

Shannon Green, CG

Pre-recorded

The Tennessee State Library and Archives: A Mega Archives for Your Tennessee Ancestors

Melissa Barker

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