We’ve tallied the numbers and made a list of the Top 10 most-watched webinars for September 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-2,281 genealogy classes in the members-only library, these were the most watched during the month of September 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 September 2024

1. Analyzing Deeds & Wills: I See What It Says—but What Does It Mean?! by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. AI and Family History: Extending Beyond the Basics by Andrew Redfern
3. Practical chromosome mapping: gaining insights from segments of DNA by Jonny Perl
4. Six Ways to Figure Out How We’re Related by Roberta Estes, MS
5. Finding Origins & Birth Families: Methods That Work by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
6. The Neighbors Knew: Strategies for Finding YOUR Ancestral Details in THEIR Records by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA
7. 10 Things You Don’t Know About Cemeteries by Gena Philibert-Ortega
8. Efficient Genealogy: Streamline Your Research with TextExpander by Christine E. Neumann
9. Broken Branches: How to Detect Cases of Misattributed Parentage in Your Family Tree by Paul Woodbury, MEd., AG
10. Prepping for and Researching at the FamilySearch Library by Lynn Turner, AG

The Runner-Ups

1. Finding John Lee: The Saga Continues by Nicka Smith
2. Elizabeth Matson – the wife of Timothy Mather born 1711 or Timothy Mather born 1737? by Bryna O’Sullivan
3. Buried in the Federal Records Center: Uncovering XC Pension Files by Alec Ferretti
4. He Had a Brother Who Disappeared: Finding John H. Hickey, Formerly of Rockton, Winnebago County, Illinois by Debra S. Mieszala, CG
5. DNA Academy 1 – Pulling It All Together by Roberta Estes, MS
6. Genealogy and the Little Ice Age by Wayne Shepheard
7. Bridging Generations: Connecting with Living Relatives Through MyHeritage by Lisa Lisson
8. African American Research 101 – Antebellum Era (Part 3 of 3) by Ari Wilkins
9. The Power of Siblings – the DNA Tests of Five Brothers by Donna Rutherford
10. The Real Life of New England Vital Records by Diane MacLean Boumenot, CG

The 2nd Runner-Ups

1. Who Hid the Body? Finding Your Ancestor’s Place of Burial by Elizabeth Williams Gomoll, CG
2. Translating German Newspapers – As Easy as Eins, Zwei, Drei by Mary Kircher Roddy, CG
3. A Myriad of Slave Databases by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL, FASG
4. Solving a 1770 problem with the 1880 census by F. Warren Bittner, MS
5. Church Records in Archives by Melissa Barker
6. Genealogical Research & Writing: Are You a Saint, Sinner, or Bumfuzzled Soul? by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
7. Luff In The Devon Cottages: Exploring A One-Place Study by Kirsty Gray
8. FamilyTreeDNA Tree Integration with MyHeritage by Roberta Estes, MS
9. 5 Ways to Make the Most of MyHeritage.com Photo Tools by Maureen Taylor
10. Explore Millions of Norwegian Historical Records by Vidar Øverlie, MS

The top 5 highest-rated webinars in September 2024

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

1. Finding Origins & Birth Families: Methods That Work by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. Finding John Lee: The Saga Continues by Nicka Smith
3. Top 10 Tips for Working with the Old German Handwriting by Katherine Schober, MA
4. Buried in the Federal Records Center: Uncovering XC Pension Files by Alec Ferretti
5. A Myriad of Slave Databases by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL, FASG

Congrats to everyone!

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