My Legacy Family Tree Webinars September presentation made the top ten

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 […]

Webtember: Walsh and Griffins of Winona County, Minnesota.

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 […]

It’s Webtember again. 4 Fridays of free Legacy Family Tree webinars!

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 […]

Legacy Family Tree Webinars 50% off sale

It’s the Legacy Family Tree Webinars spring webinar sale! Do you know about the almost 2200 webinars and 8500 syllabus pages presented by more than 400 speakers from around the world? If you aren’t a current member, you are missing out on some wonderful online genealogical and historical education. A special link that provides the […]

Genealogists and education: never a slow day! Check out Conference Keeper.

I have no clue how anyone researching their family history can ever be bored or not able to learn something new. Classes, courses, seminars, webinars, institutes, and even social media are full of what we need. Someone on a social media site may post that they just attended an excellent presentation on a particular topic. […]

Legacy Family Tree Webinars Free April Marathon!

April in a few days. Wow. Legacy Family Tree Webinars has announced a special few days of webinars. “We’re excited to announce The 5th Annual 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon hosted by FamilyTreeWebinars.com and MyHeritage. The marathon will begin on Thursday, April 11 at 5pm eastern U.S. time (Friday, April 12 at 7am Sydney time) and end on […]

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 […]

Continuing genealogy education via GRIP in June and July, 2024

GRIP offers many courses to take you further in your family history research. It’s easy to register at https://grip.ngsgenealogy.org/. If you have a National Genealogical Society member log-in, use that. Otherwise, you can create a free log-in so you can register. There are still some seats in most courses. Generally there are 25-40 “seats” available […]