In 2024 MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars brought you 194 genealogy webinars. 194 ways of finding your ancestors. Wow! We hope you’ve been able to find an ancestor or two and that you’ve enjoyed our Webinar Wednesdays, our 5th annual Genealogy Webinar Marathon, the MyHeritage webinars series, Webtember, TechZone videos, Webinar Shorts, the Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series, the African Diaspora series, the Board for Certification of Genealogists webinar series, the Mexico Research series, the O Canada series, The Best of Elizabeth Shown Mills: Genealogy Problem series, the England Counties series and everything else we’ve brought you in 2024.

Thank you for being part of our webinar family. While every single webinar was fantastic, here’s the list of the top most-watched (in number of minutes viewed, not number of hits) webinars in 2024.

The Top 10 for 2024

1. Analyzing Deeds & Wills: I See What It Says—but What Does It Mean?! by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. Finding Females: Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Paramours by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
3. Census Clues: Sweet Potato Simon, White Potato Willie, & Cows that Grow Wool by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
4. Editing Your Own Work – Part 1 by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG
5. Information Overload? Effective Project Planning, Research, Data Management & Analysis by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
6. Finding Fathers: Tracking Males Who “Disappeared” or “Just Showed Up” by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
7. Tax Rolls: Getting Our Money’s Worth from the Taxes Our Ancestors Paid by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
8. 7 Tips for Using AI as Your Genealogy Assistant by Dana Leeds
9. Identity Crises: Right Name, Wrong Man? Wrong Name, Right Man? by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
10. Webinar Short: Using AI to Translate German Church Records (and more) into English by Geoff Rasmussen

The Runner-Ups

1. Finding Origins & Birth Families: Methods That Work by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
2. Artificial Intelligence and Genealogy: New Beginnings in 2024 by Steve Little
3. Genealogical Research & Writing: Are You a Saint, Sinner, or Bumfuzzled Soul? by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
4. Metes & Bounds Land Plats Solve Genealogical Problems by Jerry Smith, CG
5. How to Find the Truth about a Family Story by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
6. Dear Me: Writing Research Reports to Yourself by Yvette Hoitink, MLitt, CG, QG
7. In a Rut? 7 Ways to Jumpstart Your Research by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
8. Using DNA To Identify Irish Ancestral Locations by Michelle Leonard
9. Using Evidence Creatively: Spotting Clues in Run-of-the-Mill Records by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
10. Kentucky and Virginia Tax Lists – 5 ½ Strategies for Identifying That Elusive Early Southerner by Gail Jackson Miller, CG

The 2nd Runner-Ups

1. Watch Geoff Live: Adding a Marriage Record Using Legacy 10 (and a first look at the FAN Club report) by Geoff Rasmussen
2. The Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS): A Review by Shannon Green, CG, CGG
3. Solving a Virginia Mystery Using DNA by Paula Williams
4. Solving a 1770 problem with the 1880 census by F. Warren Bittner, MS
5. Editing Your Own Work – Part 2 by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG
6. AI and Genealogy: Trouble Ahead? by Thomas MacEntee
7. Top Ten AI Genealogy Breakthroughs of 2024 by Steve Little
8. Practical chromosome mapping: gaining insights from segments of DNA by Jonny Perl
9. Irish ancestors – Top 5 websites you need to know about by Natalie Bodle
10. Explore Uncharted Paths in Tracing Brick Wall Ancestors Through DNA Network Graphs by Diana Elder, AG, AGL

And why not? The 3rd Runner-Ups

1. He Had a Brother Who Disappeared: Finding John H. Hickey, Formerly of Rockton, Winnebago County, Illinois by Debra S. Mieszala, CG
2. Genealogy Smart Start: Things I Wish I’d Known by Elizabeth Williams Gomoll, CG
3. Comparing Plats of Land With Deeds and Grants by J. Mark Lowe, FUGA
4. Lost and Found: Locating Ancestral Origins with FAN Club and DNA by Mary Kircher Roddy, CG, CGG
5. 10 Unexpected Places to Find Ancestor Photos Online by Elizabeth Swanay O’Neal
6. Finding Your Ancestors at the National SAR Genealogical Research Library by Cheri Daniels, MSLS
7. DNA: Proof, Citation & Privacy by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
8. AI and Family History: Extending Beyond the Basics by Andrew Redfern
9. Using Negative Evidence: The Power of Silence in the Records by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
10. Who Hid the Body? Finding Your Ancestor’s Place of Burial by Elizabeth Williams Gomoll, CG

The Top 10 MyHeritage Webinars

1. Using Artificial Intelligence Tools to Expand Your Genealogical Research Universe by James Tanner
2. FamilyTreeDNA Tree Integration with MyHeritage by Roberta Estes, MS
3. A Closer Look at the 1850-1950 U.S. Census Records, with a Little Extra Help by Diane Henriks
4. Getting the Scoop on Your Ancestors from Old Newspapers by Moshe Etlis
5. Government Money: MyHeritage’s U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936–2007 by Sharon Monson
6. Finding Your Canadian Ancestors on MyHeritage by Lianne Kruger
7. Searching for Your Family in NYC? Resources and Techniques at MyHeritage and Beyond by Mike Mansfield
8. Leveraging MyHeritage DNA Tools to Make New Discoveries by Ran Snir
9. Reuniting Siblings Separated During WWII After 70 Years & other amazing family reunions by Daniel Horowitz
10. Unlocking Birth Records: Exploring Birth Dates and Alternate Sources by Lisa Lisson

The Top 10 Webinar Shorts

1. Using AI to Translate German Church Records (and more) into English by Geoff Rasmussen
2. Manage Your Genealogy Research with Smartsheet – Part 1 by Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.
3. Cousin Connections-How to Find the Living by Cheri Hudson Passey
4. Genealogy’s Biggest Challenge: Identity! by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
5. Filing – Unlocking Order in Chaos by Fiona Brooker
6. Keeping Track of Surnames by Fiona Brooker
7. Explore What’s Changed with HathiTrust by Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS
8. How to quickly learn everything there is to know about a very specific historical topic by Janice Nickerson
9. Mastering DNA Match Labels: Utilizing the Power of Your Notes Field by Dana Leeds
10. Excel Tips for DNA Analysis: How to Make a DNA Citation Template by Paul Woodbury, MEd., AG

The Top 10 TechZone videos

1. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Get Genealogy Research Help by Thomas MacEntee
2. Full-Text Search: Genealogy Game Changer by Geoff Rasmussen
3. What’s New in Legacy Family Tree 10 by Geoff Rasmussen
4. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Summarize Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee
5. Checklist for Identifying and Dating Photos by Michelle Patient
6. AI and Genealogy: Using AI for Social History by Thomas MacEntee
7. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Transcribe Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee
8. AI and Genealogy: Using AI to Translate Genealogy Records by Thomas MacEntee
9. Demystifying Second Cousins Once Removed: Crack the Code of Kinship Terminology! by Dana Leeds
10. 5 Ways to Use ChatGPT for Genealogy by Cheri Hudson Passey

The Top 10 Highest-Rated Webinars (not including Elizabeth Shown Mills)

1. From This Day Forward – Documenting Marital Unions of Enslaved and Emancipated Persons by Renate Yarborough Sanders
2. Juneteenth–How Emancipation Came to Texas and How We Celebrate by Sharon Batiste Gillins
3. Finding John Lee: The Saga Continues by Nicka Smith
4. Top 10 Tips for Working with the Old German Handwriting by Katherine Schober, MA
5. Buried in the Federal Records Center: Uncovering XC Pension Files by Alec Ferretti
6. “Her Sixth Matrimonial Venture:” A Case Study on Tracing a Woman’s Multiple Marriages by Sharon Hoyt, CG
7. Laws of the Indies: Spanish Colonial laws and the records they produced by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
8. Oral Genealogy in Asia-Pacific: The Essence of Personal Identity and Tribal Connections by David S. Ouimette, CG, CGL
9. The Picture Bride Era: The Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 between U.S. and Japan by Linda Harms Okazaki
10. What’s Your DNA Problem? Too Few Matches? Too Many? by Diahan Southard

The #1 Highest-Rated webinar of all time was our final webinar of the year

1. DNA: Proof, Citation & Privacy by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL

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Here’s to a fruitful 2025 – may we all make progress on our family trees!