A research trip, no matter whether it’s to the local library or traveling to a place where your ancestors lived, requires advance planning. Setting your goals, defining where you will go, and organizing yourself are keys to your research success. Drew Smith provides excellent methodologies to help ensure you make the most of your trip. This webinar was first released 30 November 2022 on the Genealogy Guys Learn website.

Learn what FamilySearch’s full-text search capability can do for you! This class will provide you with tips and tricks for making the most of this innovation in genealogical research. We’ll cover various ways to search, how to use wildcards and other tools, ways to filter your results, how to read and save images and transcriptions, and what to do with the information you find in the records.

Many immigrants entered the US under the Displaced Persons Act. Based on specific criteria, eligible displaced persons (DPs) could be admitted to the US if they would not become a public charge and have safe and sanitary housing and employment without displacing some other person. The displaced person or refugee was the concern of the International Refugee Organization. The US created the Displaced Persons Commission to oversee the act’s enactment. Is your ancestor named in the record sets created? The presentation will discuss the History of the Act and the records created as a result of the Act.

Discover how Photoshop’s Generative Expand tool rescued a photo mishap in this short, practical TechZone video. Learn how a simple AI feature transformed a too-narrow senior portrait into a frame-worthy keepsake. Ideal for genealogists and tech-curious users looking to enhance or repair images using modern, accessible tools. Other uses for the tool, as well as other tools are also discussed.

Explore the hidden stories of Mexico’s colonial past and uncover the legacy of Sephardic Jews in New Spain. In this webinar, we’ll examine the types of documents—such as Inquisition records, church registries, and others —that reveal traces of Jewish ancestry. Learn the strategies used to build genealogical cases and prove ancestral connections to unlikely ancestors.

Cousin Finder™ est une toute nouvelle fonctionnalité innovante qui exploite les correspondances entre arbres généalogiques pour identifier les membres de MyHeritage avec lesquels vous partagez un lien biologique — vos cousins généalogiques — issus d’ancêtres communs. Elle vous permet également de les contacter facilement, afin de collaborer et d’enrichir ensemble vos recherches et l’histoire de votre famille. Elisabeth Zetland, membre de l’équipe de Recherche de MyHeritage, qui vous fera découvrir tout le potentiel de Cousin Finder™ et comment l’utiliser pour faire progresser votre généalogie.

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is the largest genealogy repository in the Mid-Atlantic. Its collections include over 21 million items ranging from manuscript collections to books and photographs—many of which are useful to genealogists with Pennsylvania ancestry, and most of which cannot be found anywhere else.

It’s not just how much DNA you share with your matches–it’s how much DNA they share with EACH OTHER that give needed clues to build family tree connections between your matches. MyHeritage’s Shared DNA Matches tool has been giving us that insight for a long time, and now other sites do, too. How do you leverage that data to answer your DNA questions? Come see how it works in real DNA case studies!

Finding and Fixing Tree Inconsistencies focuses on the honest mistakes we might make in recording data, how we can recognize them and what we can do to correct them.