Online Learning with Webinars

With the age of technology, online learning has become all the rage. Online learning is education that you can receive at home, at your own time, and keeps you up-to-date on what is going in the genealogical community. Technology, availability of records, and research methods is increasing at warp speed, and this is one way to keep up and hone your skills. There are many avenues to online education, but this article will deal with the ever-popular webinars, more specifically Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

Legacy Family Tree webinars have on average eight webinars a week. These webinars are free and are free for up to a week from their original recording. This feature is nice because it allows you to watch the webinar at a more convenient time if the live broadcast does not work for you. Most of Legacy’s webinars are on Wednesdays at noon, making Wednesdays, “webinar Wednesdays.” They have now included recorded webinars on Friday’s making Friday “webinar Friday’s.” They also host the webinars for BCG (Board for Certified Genealogists). On average there are about two thousand people watching each webinar live from countries all over the world. The more popular webinars you need to sign-on early to be able to watch it live, or you will have to wait a few hours for the recording to become available.

Legacy has eighty-four webinars planned until the end of the year which according to Legacy’s website include “genealogy's leading educators on topics ranging from to Jamestown to England, from DNA to online privacy.” “Find Your Roots in German Farm Histories,” by Gail Blankenau, “Brick Wall Caused by Record Loss,” by Mary Hill, “Introduction to DNA Testing in Genealogy and Family History,” by Mike Mansfield, and “Formulating a DNA Testing Plan,” by Blaine Bettinger are just a few of the upcoming webinars for March.

For a subscription price of $49.95 per year, you can have unlimited access to 661+ webinars that you can watch when you want and as often as you want. This makes each webinar cost about eight cents per webinar! With each webinar, you will have access to class handouts that the presenters have prepared.

As quoted on the Family Tree Webinar website “Nowhere else - on land, at sea, or online - will you find genealogy courses as comprehensive, diverse, or as numerous as you will find at FamilyTreeWebinars.com.”