Free Genealogy Resources - Webinars Worth Watching ALL FOR FREE

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There are a lot of FREE opportunities for family history education, you only need to know where to look! Rootstech begins today and is a fabulous source with over 1,500 presentations in various languages and topics covering every genealogy subject! But there are other great resources to increase your family tree building skills. Here I review my favorites and mention some strategies for finding the right helps for your research questions.

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Remember to look where you live and also where you are researching

0:00 Intro
0:33 YouTube is amazing
0:50 Other places to learn about genealogy
1:09 Rootstech
2:30 Family Search Training Helps
3:09 Genealogy Societies
3:36 Ventura County Genealogical Society, California
4:33 Finding Genealogy Societies
4:44 FamilySearch Wiki Pages
5:07 Local Libraries
5:25 Dallas, Texas Library
5:44 Clayton Library, Houston, Texas
6:06 Allen Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana
6:27 American Ancestors
7:06 Legacy Family Tree Webinars
7:29 Ancestry, Find My Past, My Heritage

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Music "Something Elated" by Broke for Free.

[m.moseley]

I just discovered Aimee Cross, and she has quickly become my favorite genealogist on YouTube. She is clear, informative and gets straight to the point. Always worth my time.

[deborahcohen]

I have been looking for an ancestor for 10 years,

[vanessaclark]

Great video. Didn’t realize the libraries were doing videos!

[GoldieMay]

Good thought to follow the local libraries in research areas.

[roberthowe]

Another topic I would find helpful is how to share my findings. I have sent "Ancestry invites" to view my family tree, but for various reasons few people accept the invite. I suspect that most people want to view a hardcopy of my research, or a stand alone "pdf" file. So my hope is that you develop a few segments on what to include in research that I will share with family, and how to do it.

-What questions include: Should I have a "dry" list of names and dates starting with me? or some common ancestor that everybody knows? Maybe I should start with some common 2nd great grandfather and list all the descendants so we can see how all the cousins are related. Maybe I should have pictures and stories of the ancestors? Maybe a list of noteworthy ancestors and how we are related to them? Clearly there are many deep, time consuming rabbit holes that we can go down. If we aren't careful, we can get overwhelmed and not create any output. Maybe you have some good suggestions on what type of output to start with?

-How Questions include: How should I create these outputs. In my experience, Ancestry does not seem to have much in the way of outputs formats. I am impressed with the list out outputs available from "Family Tree Maker" the computer program I use. I sync Ancestry to my Family Tree Maker tree because Ancestry is easier to use. Once again, what do you recommend for creating these documents?

Thanks for all the work you do putting together YouTube segments. I know it is very time consuming

[kayeworthington]

Are there any non-American channels on YouTube. These are about how to do research in the USA.

[shannondaniels]

Wow, just discovered you ! So excited to hear more about what you have.

[roberthowe]

I like WikiTree.Their mission is to build a single world tree similar to Family Search, put with sources. It is all free, and they really push listing sources so that it is easier to verify the information.

I would like to see you do a segment that concentrates on researching the woman in our trees. I know you have touched on this in some of your videos, but it would be helpful to put all of your women researching tips in one video. I sure you have some tips you you haven't had a chance to share yet too!