Watch FREE right now, Neglected Gold in Older Genealogical and Historical Periodicals

I really enjoyed presenting this webinar last Friday. If you don’t have a Legacy Family Tree Webinars membership, you can still watch (or rewatch) it FREE through April 18th. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/neglected-gold-in-older-genealogical-and-historical-periodicals/. We are lucky to have webinar hosts Marian and Geoff to guide us and I appreciate Legacy Family Tree Webinars and MyHeritage for making this […]

Join me in two free genealogy webinars April 9 & 11

April 9, 2025. Wednesday evening free Webinar. 7:00 p.m. EDT, 6:00 pm CDT. Hosted by the Virginia Genealogical Society. My topic is “The WPA Era: Free Records Boon from the Government.” The presentation includes a section related to the New Deal and WPA activities in Virginia and details to find books, records, indexes, and online […]

FREE Railroad Records half-day online seminar 18 January

I’ve been busy updating a couple of my U.S. railroad presentations for this coming Saturday, 18 January 2025. It’s amazing how fast things related to genealogical and historical research are updated or appear for the first time on an almost daily basis. Lots of new and expanded things to share this coming Saturday morning on […]

2025 Legacy Family Tree genealogy webinars!

It’s a new year and that means another new year of amazing webinar offerings from MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars. 173 sessions are scheduled. Can you believe it’s the 15th year of these webinars! To view the full array that covers many speakers, many places, many topics, and more http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9378. That’s my affiliate link […]

My genealogy presentations calendar updated

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 […]

Holiday Sale Legacy Family Tree Webinars thru December 6

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 […]

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 […]