We’ve tallied the numbers and made a list of the Top 10 most-watched webinars for August 2024! Are your favorite topics or instructors among the list? Need something new to learn? Use the list to get inspired!

Each month thousands of Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers head for the library to learn new skills and techniques to help improve their genealogy research. Among the now-2,254 genealogy classes in the members-only library, these were the most watched during the month of August 2024. They aren’t necessarily the newest classes but rather the topics that were sought out by our members.

Have you seen any of these classes? Are these among your favorites too? Some of these classes (and topics) might be new to you! Get inspired to learn more and make your genealogy journey more fun!

The Top 10 for August 2024

1. Analyzing Deeds & Wills: I See What It Says—but What Does It Mean?! by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. The Power of Siblings – the DNA Tests of Five Brothers by Donna Rutherford
3. Solving a 1770 problem with the 1880 census by F. Warren Bittner, MS
4. Watch Geoff Live: Adding a Marriage Record Using Legacy 10 (and a first look at the FAN Club report) by Geoff Rasmussen
5. Genealogical Research & Writing: Are You a Saint, Sinner, or Bumfuzzled Soul? by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
6. He Had a Brother Who Disappeared: Finding John H. Hickey, Formerly of Rockton, Winnebago County, Illinois by Debra S. Mieszala, CG
7. DNA Academy 1 – Pulling It All Together by Roberta Estes, MS
8. Who Hid the Body? Finding Your Ancestor’s Place of Burial by Elizabeth Williams Gomoll, CG
9. Genealogy of East and West Prussia by Ute Brandenburg
10. FamilyTreeDNA Tree Integration with MyHeritage by Roberta Estes, MS

The Runner-Ups

1. How to Find the Truth about a Family Story by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. Using AI to Translate German Church Records (and more) into English by Geoff Rasmussen and Andrea Bentschneider
3. English Occupation, Apprenticeship and Guild Records by Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv
4. DNA Academy 2 – FamilyTreeDNA by Roberta Estes, MS
5. Six MORE free websites for Ontario genealogists by Janice Nickerson
6. Y-DNA Highways of History by Roberta Estes, MS
7. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Get Genealogy Research Help by Thomas MacEntee
8. Using MyHeritage DNA to Determine Immigrant Origins by Melanie McComb
9. DNA Academy 3 – MyHeritage by Roberta Estes, MS
10. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Summarize Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee

The 2nd Runner-Ups

1. Identity Crises: Right Name, Wrong Man? Wrong Name, Right Man? by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. 10 Reasons Why MyHeritage is a Genealogist’s Best Friend by Melissa Barker
3. 10 Unexpected Places to Find Ancestor Photos Online by Elizabeth Swanay O’Neal
4. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Transcribe Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee
5. Finding Your Ancestors at the National SAR Genealogical Research Library by Cheri Daniels, MSLS
6. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Translate Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee
7. Researching Oregon Trail Ancestors by Dawn Carlile
8. Kentucky and Virginia Tax Lists – 5 ½ Strategies for Identifying That Elusive Early Southerner by Gail Jackson Miller, CG
9. Using MyHeritage for Family History Research in Australia by Shauna Hicks
10. Abstracting Documents: An Essential Skill for All Genealogists by Julie Miller, CG, CGL

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The #1 rated webinar in August 2024

After each live webinar, viewers rate the webinar on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the highest). This month’s #1 rated webinar is:

1. African American Research 101 – Antebellum Era (Part 3 of 3) by Ari Wilkins

Congrats to Ari!