Picture the Past: An Introduction to AI Images for Family Historians
Learn how to use artificial intelligence to transform written records and family stories into memorable images. Whether recreating a long-lost family homestead or visualizing your ancestors’ daily lives, discover how today’s AI technology can add a new dimension to your family history research. This webinar will show genealogists how to use the best AI image generators available today and demonstrate the methods for getting the best results from them.
Learn how to use artificial intelligence to transform written records and family stories into memorable images. Whether recreating a long-lost family homestead or visualizing your ancestors’ daily lives, discover how today’s AI technology can add a new dimension to your family history research. This webinar will show genealogists how to use the best AI image generators available today and demonstrate the methods for getting the best results from them.
Using Stereographs and Vintage Postcards in Your Genealogy
In this video you will learn that family photographs are not the only visual images that can build context about your ancestors and their families. We will explore stereographs which were viewed using a special stereograph viewer and vintage postcard that used real photographs.
In this video you will learn that family photographs are not the only visual images that can build context about your ancestors and their families. We will explore stereographs which were viewed using a special stereograph viewer and vintage postcard that used real photographs.
5 Ways to Make the Most of MyHeritage.com Photo Tools
MyHeritage.com makes it easy to colorize, enhance, improve, and share your images. Maximize the tools using “hidden” features. For instance, take color-shifted images from blah to brilliant. Then use the photo dashboard to keep track of photo information and collaborate with cousins.
MyHeritage.com makes it easy to colorize, enhance, improve, and share your images. Maximize the tools using “hidden” features. For instance, take color-shifted images from blah to brilliant. Then use the photo dashboard to keep track of photo information and collaborate with cousins.
10 Unexpected Places to Find Ancestor Photos Online
It is wonderful to uncover the facts of an ancestor’s life, but putting a face to a name is the most amazing discovery of all. Expand your search for your ancestor’s faces with these ten “unexpected” online resources!
It is wonderful to uncover the facts of an ancestor’s life, but putting a face to a name is the most amazing discovery of all. Expand your search for your ancestor’s faces with these ten “unexpected” online resources!
Silent Storytellers: A Genealogist’s Guide to Cemetery Photography
They stand there behind those gates: marble and granite memorials to those who went before. The stones in those cemeteries and the stories they tell for our families are of crucial importance to genealogists. How can we best get access to the land where they stand, and photograph them to capture the stories they tell?
They stand there behind those gates: marble and granite memorials to those who went before. The stones in those cemeteries and the stories they tell for our families are of crucial importance to genealogists. How can we best get access to the land where they stand, and photograph them to capture the stories they tell?
Michelle will show us how to get the most from her free checklist for identifying and dating photographs. Find the checklist at http://bit.ly/PhotoChecklist
Michelle will show us how to get the most from her free checklist for identifying and dating photographs. Find the checklist at http://bit.ly/PhotoChecklist
Got Old Negatives? Scan Them With Your Phone and These 5 (Mostly) Free Apps!
Are your old film negatives wasting away in a box in the closet? Let’s bring them to life so you can enjoy them! These days, it’s quick, easy, and inexpensive to scan film negatives with your smartphone. Find out how with these five apps and a few household items!
Are your old film negatives wasting away in a box in the closet? Let’s bring them to life so you can enjoy them! These days, it’s quick, easy, and inexpensive to scan film negatives with your smartphone. Find out how with these five apps and a few household items!
Are You Missing Important Family History Clues in Your Old Family Photographs?
Family photographs put names to the faces of our ancestors. But…. are you missing important family history clues hidden in them? Learn how to use MyHeritage’s photo tools to enhance your old family photos to analyze them for important social history clues for your ancestors!
Family photographs put names to the faces of our ancestors. But…. are you missing important family history clues hidden in them? Learn how to use MyHeritage’s photo tools to enhance your old family photos to analyze them for important social history clues for your ancestors!
An Introduction to Reimagine, the New Photo App from MyHeritage
Discover Reimagine, the new app from MyHeritage that allows you to scan photo albums in minutes and colorize, enhance, repair, animate, and share your favorite family photos. Enjoy a walkthrough of the app and all its features from Ran Snir, Director of Product Management for MyHeritage.
Discover Reimagine, the new app from MyHeritage that allows you to scan photo albums in minutes and colorize, enhance, repair, animate, and share your favorite family photos. Enjoy a walkthrough of the app and all its features from Ran Snir, Director of Product Management for MyHeritage.
MyHeritage never stops innovating, especially in the area of working with historical photos. Discover the latest and greatest photo innovations from MyHeritage.
MyHeritage never stops innovating, especially in the area of working with historical photos. Discover the latest and greatest photo innovations from MyHeritage.
Organizing and Tagging Photos with the MyHeritage Mobile App
MyHeritage has become the #1 destination for working with old family photos, but if you’re going to be uploading photos by the dozen to improve with the photo tools, it’s important to keep them organized! Learn all about how to organize your photos on MyHeritage.
MyHeritage has become the #1 destination for working with old family photos, but if you’re going to be uploading photos by the dozen to improve with the photo tools, it’s important to keep them organized! Learn all about how to organize your photos on MyHeritage.
This webinar will cover the absolutes of shooting good pictures with any camera. It covers shutter speed, aperture and ISO at the intermediate and advanced levels.
This webinar will cover the absolutes of shooting good pictures with any camera. It covers shutter speed, aperture and ISO at the intermediate and advanced levels.
5 Easy-to-Use Tools to Repair, Enhance and Animate Your Old Photos on MyHeritage
Tue, August 26 2025: 18:00 UTC
MyHeritage makes it easy to fix problems in old photographs—without having to buy expensive and complicated photo-editing software. Upload a photo to MyHeritage and, with just a few clicks, you can sharpen blurry faces, remove scratches and transform a black-and-white photo to color. If your old color photos have faded, you can restore the original colors. You can even animate a face in a photo and create a video of someone telling his or life story. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use all these tools.
MyHeritage makes it easy to fix problems in old photographs—without having to buy expensive and complicated photo-editing software. Upload a photo to MyHeritage and, with just a few clicks, you can sharpen blurry faces, remove scratches and transform a black-and-white photo to color. If your old color photos have faded, you can restore the original colors. You can even animate a face in a photo and create a video of someone telling his or life story. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use all these tools.
Organize Digital and Digitized Photos & Documents Using AI
Fri, October 24 2025: 18:00 UTC
Excire Photo 2024 is a new program that lets you automatically add keywords and your own custom ones; search for one or more images by free text, keyword(s), groups or individual people; identified faces; GPS locations; event; main colour in an image; by camera model, camera lens, lens focal length used, shutter speed used, and more. All of this metadata is written directly to your files or to XMP sidecar files, so the information stays with your images, not trapped in a proprietary database. This feature rich program is available for Windows and MacOS, even on M1 and later processor chips. Learn how this software can relieve you of much time and effort in organizing your digital images.
Excire Photo 2024 is a new program that lets you automatically add keywords and your own custom ones; search for one or more images by free text, keyword(s), groups or individual people; identified faces; GPS locations; event; main colour in an image; by camera model, camera lens, lens focal length used, shutter speed used, and more. All of this metadata is written directly to your files or to XMP sidecar files, so the information stays with your images, not trapped in a proprietary database. This feature rich program is available for Windows and MacOS, even on M1 and later processor chips. Learn how this software can relieve you of much time and effort in organizing your digital images.
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.
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.
See How it Works: Shared DNA Matches Find Ancestors
Wed, May 14 2025: 18:00 UTC
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!
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!
21 Million Reasons to Research at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Thu, May 15 2025: 0:00 UTC
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.
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.
Cousin Finder™ : Retrouvez vos cousins avec MyHeritage
Thu, May 15 2025: 12:00 UTC
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Despair to Cargoes of Hope: WWII’s Displaced Persons
Wed, May 21 2025: 0:00 UTC
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.
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.
Secrets for Success: How to Harness the Power of FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search
Wed, May 21 2025: 18:00 UTC
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.
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.
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