I have updated my listing of genealogy presentations for 2025. Most are virtual, but a few are in-person. https://genealogybypaula.com/speaking/ The first in-person one is in Sun City, Arizona on Saturday, 15 February. They wanted me back. It’s a great group of researchers. Many of the Webinars are for genealogical societies or libraries where I have […]
Still thinking about a membership in Legacy Family Tree Webinars? Here are at atsome reasons to do it now for NEW memberships only! I’ve heard there are some special things happening in 2025. Get 50% off a full year’s webinar membership (new memberships only). Membership provides 24/7 access to 2,300+ full-length genealogy classes. PLUS all […]
Geoff Rasmussen says “We’ve tallied the numbers and made a list of the Top 10 most-watched webinars for October 2024! Are your favorite topics or instructors among the list? Need something new to learn? Use the list to get inspired! You’ll see my name and my September presentation among the runner-ups. Guess it’s still drawing […]
Part of my work schedule for today is working on updating handouts and PowerPoint slides for a bunch of presentations I am doing in October and November. It’s always enjoyable to share my knowledge with groups around the world, but I am staying in the U.S. for the next several months. While I’m working on […]
FREE BCG-SPONSORED WEBINAR “A Myriad of Slave Databases” by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL, FASG Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 8:00 p.m. (EDT) I know this is a last-minute posting. Sorry about that, my fault totally. BCG’s next free monthly webinar in conjunction with Legacy Family Tree Webinars is “A Myriad of Slave Databases” by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, […]
If you attended my presentation yesterday (Friday, 13 September) as part of Legacy Family Tree’s Webtember, you learned a little about a maternal Great Grandaunt Johanna (Walsh) Healy Griffin. My session was titled “The Neighbors Knew: Strategies for Finding YOUR Ancestral Details in THEIR Records.” A slide toward the end of the hour showed an […]
20 free webinars over the four Fridays of September 2024. A great variety of topics and speakers. I will be presenting on Friday, 13 September at 10:30 a.m. CDT about “The Neighbors Knew: Strategies for Finding YOUR Ancestral Details in THEIR Records.” My affiliate link for registration for this and the other ones is http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9276 […]
This Wednesday, August 28, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, I will be presenting “What’s Next? Developing Step by Step Research Plans.” It is an online event hosted by the The Villages Genealogical Society. I love doing this presentation because it involves the participants, sound advice, and methodology. It shows many reasons why we need the assistance […]
Join me online this Saturday morning, 17 August 2024. Learn about general resources for locating the correct railroad, where records might be located, how to find “buried away” records, with some added touches for Irish railroad workers. A six-page handout with tips, resources, links, and more accompanies my presentation. https://irishgenealogical.org/
Not your ancestry? Oh, it’s still worth an hour of your time. You never know what you might learn about oral history, what someone with Asia-Pacific ancestry might ask you about in six months, or simply expanding your history knowledge. When I was doing publicity for and co-chairing large genealogy conferences, I often suggested that […]