We’ve tallied the numbers and made a list of the Top 10 most-watched webinars for April 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-2,191 genealogy classes in the members-only library, these were the most watched during the month of April 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 April 2024

  1. Tax Rolls: Getting Our Money’s Worth from the Taxes Our Ancestors Paid by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
  2. 7 Tips for Using AI as Your Genealogy Assistant by Dana Leeds
  3. Where Fact Meets Fiction: behind the scenes of a genealogical crime mystery by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
  4. Comparing Plats of Land With Deeds and Grants by J. Mark Lowe, FUGA
  5. Solving a Virginia Mystery Using DNA by Paula Williams
  6. Census Clues: Sweet Potato Simon, White Potato Willie, & Cows that Grow Wool by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
  7. What’s Your DNA Problem? Too Few Matches? Too Many? by Diahan Southard
  8. Silent Storytellers: A Genealogist’s Guide to Cemetery Photography by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
  9. Artificial Intelligence & Family History: An introduction by Andrew Redfern
  10. Exciting Discoveries – Organising Your Family History by Fiona Brooker

The Runner-Ups

  1. Using U.S. Church Records as a Brick Wall Strategy: Case Studies by Sunny Morton
  2. 10 Ways AI Can Help You Find Your Elusive Ancestors by Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.
  3. Using Artificial Intelligence Tools to Expand Your Genealogical Research Universe by James Tanner
  4. Using DNA To Identify Irish Ancestral Locations by Michelle Leonard
  5. Clustering with MyHeritage Labels by Michelle Leonard
  6. Non-Conformism in England and Wales by Jenny Joyce
  7. French Emigrants: They Were Not All Huguenots, or Nobles, or from Alsace-Lorraine by Anne Morddel, CG
  8. Scottish Genealogy – Are we a Clan or a Family? And can we have a Chief? by Dr. Bruce Durie
  9. From This Day Forward – Documenting Marital Unions of Enslaved and Emancipated Persons by Renate Yarborough Sanders
  10. Unlocking Birth Records: Exploring Birth Dates and Alternate Sources by Lisa Lisson

The 2nd Runner-Ups

  1. Researching Family History at Your Library with MyHeritage Library Edition by Daniel Horowitz
  2. Searching for Your Family in NYC? Resources and Techniques at MyHeritage and Beyond by Mike Mansfield
  3. Finding Females: Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Paramours by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
  4. Government Money: MyHeritage’s U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936–2007 by Sharon Monson
  5. Why can’t I find it? Locating surnames in online databases by Carol Baxter
  6. Moving, moving, moving! Migration Patterns within Germany by Ursula C. Krause
  7. Which Hans Jensen is Mine? Navigating Patronymics in Scandinavian Research by Jenny Hansen, AG, AGL
  8. Tools to Research Your French Canadian Ancestors by Johanne Gervais
  9. 6 Tips to Build a Family Tree for Busy People by Tara Shymanski
  10. What’s New & Exciting in MyHeritage’s Historical Records by Myko Clelland

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The #1 rated webinar in April 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. From This Day Forward – Documenting Marital Unions of Enslaved and Emancipated Persons by Renate Yarborough Sanders

Congrats to Renate!