Free BCG-Sponsored Webinar

The Board for Certification of Genealogists presents “Maternal Threads Unwoven: Identifying Margareta’s Mother in 18 th Century Sweden.” by Jill Morelli, CG, CGLTuesday, March 19, 2024, 8:00 p.m. (EDT) In spite of birth entries for Margareta’s five siblings in Hishult, there was no record of her birth in the parish. Tax records quickly identified the […]

Free Board for Certification of Genealogists Sponsored 2024 Webinars

Registration for the Board for Certification of Genealogists’ (BCG) twelve monthly webinars in 2024 is now live at its partner website Legacy Family Tree Webinars. (https://familytreewebinars.com/upcoming-webinars/?category=visit-www-bcgcertification-org).   BCG Upcoming Webinars Dates, topics, and speakers are shown below: 16 Jan 2024 Shannon Green, CG “The Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS): A Review” 20 Feb 2024 Jerry Smith, […]

It’s time! 2024 Legacy Family Tree Webinars registration is now open!

Registration is now open for an amazing year of genealogical presentations with topics for the U.S., Canada, and other countries. 112 speakers for 2024 from 14 countries! Education from the comfort of your own desk or easy chair. Do you know a lot about genealogy research and records? I bet you don’t know everything and […]

2024 peek at Legacy Family Tree Webinar presenters: genealogy galore!

I hope you have your Legacy Family Tree Webinar membership ready to go for 2024. Today they released the photos of the big lineup of 2024 speakers. The speakers are in alphabetical order by first name. I follow Paul and Paul and am followed by Paula. As always, that makes me sing a few bits […]

Closing out my 2023 genealogy presentations and doing contracts for 2024 and 2025

Last evening I had the honor of presenting “How to Drag Your Family into Genealogy” during the virtual annual meeting of the Texas State Genealogical Society (TxGS). I was impressed at the reporting of the extent of educational activities and volunteerism in the TxGS. It was also nice to see some long-time friends from Texas […]

Free evening hybrid presentation on Railroad Records on November 16th

Join me for “Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking” this Thursday, November 16, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. CT. It will be online and in-person in Muskogee. I will be online for this presentation sponsored by Oklahoma’s Muskogee County Genealogical Society and the Tulsa Genealogical Society. Both are great groups and deserve your support […]

Free all-day genealogy conference from the Arkansas Genealogical Society

On Saturday, October 14, 2023, the Arkansas Genealogical Society (AGS) is offering a full-day conference with one speaker in the morning and another in the afternoon. Two speakers, four topics total, handouts, and to top that off, it’s FREE and via Zoom. Sign up and join us on Saturday. https://argensoc.org/conference/#gsc.tab=0 My morning presentations include examples […]

Legacy Family Tree Webinars Top 10 for September and the #1 rated September Webinar is . . .

Legacy Family Tree Webinars now has 2,076 webinars from 387 speakers accompanied by 7,901 syllabus pages. Most webinars are free the first time offered and for a week afterward. The syllabus material is only available to members. A membership entitles you to view some special webinars plus everything else. These are great webinars! At the […]

My October Presentations Update for Family History Month

It’s Family History Month in the U.S. I have updated my speaking calendar to show the 8 topics I am presenting virtually this month. Other than one, anyone can join virtually from anywhere in the world. Some have a fee and others are free. If you attend any virtual presentations, please consider joining that society […]