Free Online Genealogy Presentations

 

Legacy Family Tree Webinars 1-Day Conference – Saturday 29th January 

Legacy is a subscription website which, from this Saturday, begins a monthly series of free one-day conferences, using their existing presentations which are usually only available to subscribers. They will also include some new classes. Of course this is a marketing strategy, to draw in paying customers, but these conferences really are free.

This month, the theme of the conference is Organization, and the free classes are

• Organization: Create a Finding Aid to Locate Your Records, by Teri E. Flack
• Get Organized Using the FamilyRoots Organizer Colour-Coding System, by Mary Hill
• Maintaining an Organized Computer, by Cyndi Ingle
• Organize Your Online Life, by Lisa Louise Cooke
• You Can Do This: Photo Organizing and Preservation, by Thomas MacEntee

There is no timetable or registration; the presentations will simply be made available on the set date.  Visit the conference website and choose which talks you want to watch, in whichever order you like.  As part of each class, there will also be a free speaker handout (syllabus) to download.

Family History Library Classes and Webinars - Mondays-Thursdays

FamilySearch hold regular online classes throughout the year.  For February and March these will cover using the website's different tools to find, document, and add photos to your family record.  Research Webinars are also scheduled to help build your skills in areas like researching different countries' records, using DNA, and understanding Latin handwriting.

Registration is necessary as class numbers are limited, so when you see a topic you are interested in, sign up for it right away.  And the beginning of March will see FamilySearch's second free global event, RootsTech 2022 - watch out for a future post here about that!

Scottish Indexes Conference XVI – Saturday 12th March

Husband-and-wife team Graham and Emma Maxwell operate their genealogy research business from their home in the west of Scotland, and since the advent of the global pandemic which severely restricted access to essential archives, they have diversified significantly. Just under two years ago, they started organising online conference programmes and made them available at no cost to anybody who wanted to join in via either their Facebook group or Zoom.  Each talk is shown twice on the day, to allow viewers from around the world to take part in their timezone.  You can browse previous presentations and handouts at their Past Conferences page. 

Have you been deliberately avoiding Zoom presentations? 

1.    Not all of these events require you to use Zoom

2.    It's completely free to use the basic package.

2.    Zoom isn't the problem it's been cracked up to be! Watch the first two-and-a-half minutes of this introductory video to see how straightforward it is to join a Zoom meeting.