We’ve tallied the numbers and made a list of the Top 10 most-watched webinars for May 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-2,207 genealogy classes in the members-only library, these were the most watched during the month of May 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 May 2024

1. Identity Crises: Right Name, Wrong Man? Wrong Name, Right Man? by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. Tax Rolls: Getting Our Money’s Worth from the Taxes Our Ancestors Paid by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
3. Strategies to Analyze Endogamous DNA by Alec Ferretti
4. Editing Your Own Writing – Part 1 by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG
5. A Tour of Goldie May’s Genealogy Power Tools by Richard Miller
6. Where Fact Meets Fiction: behind the scenes of a genealogical crime mystery by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
7. Forgotten Records: The Record and Pension Office by Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA
8. A Closer Look at the 1850-1950 U.S. Census Records, with a Little Extra Help by Diane Henriks
9. Webinar Short! Manage Your Genealogy Research with Smartsheet – Part 1 by Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.
10. Getting Out of the Archives and Into the Pubs to Trace Your Irish Ancestry by Eliza Watson

The Runner-Ups

1. 7 Tips for Using AI as Your Genealogy Assistant by Dana Leeds
2. Researching in Kent by Helen V. Smith
3. Comparing Plats of Land With Deeds and Grants by J. Mark Lowe, FUGA
4. Finding the records for “impossible” genealogy – lessons learned from a Chinese genealogist by Linda Yip
5. Census Clues: Sweet Potato Simon, White Potato Willie, & Cows that Grow Wool by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
6. Using Artificial Intelligence Tools to Expand Your Genealogical Research Universe by James Tanner
7. Finding Females: Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Paramours by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
8. What’s Your DNA Problem? Too Few Matches? Too Many? by Diahan Southard
9. Artificial Intelligence & Family History: An introduction by Andrew Redfern
10. 10 Ways AI Can Help You Find Your Elusive Ancestors by Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.

The 2nd Runner-Ups

1. Solving a Virginia Mystery Using DNA by Paula Williams
2. Finding Fathers: Tracking Males Who “Disappeared” or “Just Showed Up” by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
3. Exciting Discoveries – Organising Your Family History by Fiona Brooker
4. Webinar Short! Manage Your Genealogy Research with Smartsheet – Part 2 by Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.
5. Dissection & Analysis of Research Problems: 10 Steps to a Solution by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
6. The Mexican National Archive (AGN): A Resource for Genealogists by Nefi Arenas Salazar, AG®
7. Using Evidence Creatively: Spotting Clues in Run-of-the-Mill Records by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
8. Quickly Organize Your DNA Matches with the Leeds Method by Dana Leeds
9. Using DNA To Identify Irish Ancestral Locations by Michelle Leonard
10. Using Negative Evidence: The Power of Silence in the Records by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

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The #1 rated webinar in May 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. Identity Crises: Right Name, Wrong Man? Wrong Name, Right Man? by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

Congrats to Elizabeth!