Month: April 2020

The Patchogue-Medford Public Library will present a virtual program, “Basics of Ancestry ThruLines,” on Wednesday, April 29 at 11 a.m. Learn the basics of how to use this powerful tool from Ancestry.com with genealogist Sarah Gutmann. This program will be held via GoToMeeting. To join the meeting go to: https://www.gotomeet.me/PatchogueMedfordLibrary/ancestry-thrulines 

The National Archives in Kew, England is making digital records available on its website free of charge for as long its location is closed to visitors. Registered users will be able to order and download up to 10 items for free, with a maximum of 50 items over 30 days. To access the service, you…

Ancestry.com is offering free access to its yearbook collection now through Sunday, April 26. The collection has over 450,000 yearbooks and more than 62 million pages. To start searching, go to: Ancestry.com/Yearbooks.  In addition, MyHeritage.com is providing free access to its yearbook collection now through May 23, 2020. The yearbook collection consists of 290 million…

The Brentwood Public Library will be hosting a virtual genealogy program this Friday, April 24, from 3:30-4 p.m. The program is called “Genealogy 101.” The library plans to continue offering this program during the current health crisis.  To attend the program, go to:https://brentwood.librarycalendar.com/events/genealogy-101-online-0  Once you register for the program, you will be signed up for all…

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City will be offering a free five part online webinar English Research Seminar in April. Thursday, April 23 – 11 a.m. – A Researcher’s View of Old English Life Thursday, April 23 – 12:30 p.m. – England Non-Conformist Church Records Thursday, April 23 – 3 p.m. – I…

The British genealogy magazine, Family Tree, held a virtual conference on April 17 and 18. From now until April 24, you watch the videos and print out the hand-outs for free. After that you will need to be a subscriber to the magazine in order to access the videos. Below are some of the titles…

A free webinar dealing with German genealogy research will be offered this Thursday, April 23, at 1 p.m. by German-English genealogy translation expert Katherine Schober of SK Translations. The topic of the webinar will be “Five Types of German Genealogy Documents and What You Can Find in Each.” What kind of documents are available for…

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has added more free webinars that will continue until the beginning of May. To register for any of these webinars, go to: https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/blog/upcoming-free-webinars Identifying and Examining DNA Outliers Monday, April 20, 4:00 pm ET | Presented by Blaine T. Bettinger The amount of DNA shared by two people…

Diahan Southard, Your DNA Guide, will be offering two free DNA webinars. Times listed are Eastern time. Tuesday, April 21 – 8 p.m. and Thursday, April 23 at 2 p.m. – Your DNA Guide -the Webinar: Understanding MyHeritage DNA Tuesday, May 5 – 8 p.m. or Thursday, May 7 at 2 p.m.  – Your DNA…

Lisa Louise Cooke, host and creator of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, has recently created a live, weekly YouTube.com broadcast called “Elevenses With Lisa.” “Elevenses with Lisa” is a 30 minute episode where Lisa invites everyone to come and sip a cup of tea and chat about genealogy. She has covered topics such as free genealogy…