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🍯🐻 OH, BOTHER! YOUR ANCESTORS HAVE STORIES TO TELL, AND YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF EXCUSES! 📖🌳

This week, we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, first published October 14, 1926. And what better way to celebrate a century of storytelling than by discovering a few new chapters in your OWN family history?

🎈 THREE FREE GENEALOGY WEBINARS! ONE WONDERFUL WEEK!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
Scottish Genealogy: Finding and Understanding Civil Registration Records
🎙️ Alison Spring
⏰ 2:00 pm EDT / 1:00 pm CDT
🔍 Learn how Scottish birth, marriage, and death records can help solve family tree mysteries.

🤖 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
From Data to Dialogue with AI 1 of 5: Turning Data into Stories
🎙️ Andrew Redfern and Fiona Brooker
⏰ 8:00 pm EDT / 7:00 pm CDT
📖 Turn genealogy research into compelling family stories using AI. The first chapter of a five-part series!

💍 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16
Fleet Marriages: Tracing Clandestine Weddings in the UK
🎙️ Sarah Pettyfer, QG
⏰ 2:00 pm EDT / 1:00 pm CDT
🔍 Discover how to trace secretive historical weddings and uncover overlooked UK marriage records.

🍯 ALL THREE ARE FREE!

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Your ancestors left the clues. These webinars will help you find the stories.

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At Genealogy Bargains, we believe that the most powerful tool in a researcher’s kit isn’t just expensive software or a database subscription; it is education. You can have access to all the records in the world, but if you don’t know how to analyze them, they remain just pieces of paper.

If you’re looking to strengthen your genealogy skills, stay on top of new research strategies, or simply get inspired by experts in the field, Legacy Family Tree Webinars continues to be one of the most valuable—and affordable—learning resources available to genealogists and family historians. And the best part? Many webinars are completely FREE to attend live, and the recordings remain free for 7 full days afterward.

Each week, Legacy Family Tree features new sessions led by world-class instructors covering DNA, methodology, technology tools, record groups, ethnic research, and much more. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned researcher, these free webinars offer accessible, high-quality education right from home.

THIS WEEK’S LEGACY FAMILY TREE WEBINARS

FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR Scottish Genealogy: Finding and Understanding Civil Registration Records

Scottish Genealogy: Finding and Understanding Civil Registration Records presented by Alison Spring, Wednesday 14 October 2026 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. To follow on from my pre-1855 Scots research webinar, here I’ll talk about what to expect when researching in the post-1855 civil registration records of Scotland, with detailed explanations about the contents of birth, marriage & death records. I’ll also demonstrate how to search the ScotlandsPeople website for these records, and show you where else to find them. Register for FREE at https://genealogybargains.com/lftwebinars-upcoming via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

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FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR From Data to Dialogue with AI 1 of 5: Turning Data into Stories

From Data to Dialogue with AI 1 of 5: Turning Data into Stories presented by Andrew Redfern and Fiona Brooker, Wednesday 14 October 2026 8pm EDT / 7pm CDT / 6pm MDT/ 5pm PDT. Turn structured research into stories, images, presentations, and shareable formats with AI. Advanced application of AI for publishing and presenting; includes image generation, storytelling prompts, visual outputs; activities include drafting, editing, and building presentations. Register for FREE at https://genealogybargains.com/lftwebinars-upcoming via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

 

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FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR Fleet Marriages: Tracing Clandestine Weddings in the UK

Fleet Marriages: Tracing Clandestine Weddings in the UK presented by Sarah Pettyfer, QG, Friday 16 October 2026 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. This presentation provides a brief history of marriage in the UK with a particular focus on Fleet marriages, that is those which were outside the normal rules of the Church prior to Lord Hardwicks Marriage Act 1753. The records can be found online but many may not be obvious. Understanding what they are can provide insight into our ancestors. Register for FREE at https://genealogybargains.com/lftwebinars-upcoming via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

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FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR RECORDINGS

The webinars offered by Legacy Family Tree Webinars are recorded and available for FREE for the 7-day period AFTER the live event

FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR RECORDING Paternal or Maternal – Where Does This Match Fit?

Paternal or Maternal – Where Does This Match Fit? presented by Paul Woodbury, MEd., AG, Tuesday 6 October 2026 9pm EDT / 8pm CDT / 7pm MDT/ 6pm PDT. One of the best ways to sort DNA matches into paternal and maternal categories, is to test a close known relative (parent, half-sibling, aunt, uncle or first cousin) and identify shared matches and unshared matches, but what if that is not an option for you? No worries! The underlying inheritance pattern for autosomal DNA and the underlying technology used to test it means that even you can distinguish paternal from maternal relatives. Join us in this webinar to learn how.  VIEW RECORDING for FREE now through Monday 12 October 2026 at https://genealogybargains.com/lftwebinars-webinarlibrary via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

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FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR RECORDING Generations in Focus: Preserving Family Memories Through Photography

Generations in Focus: Preserving Family Memories Through Photography presented by Angela Andrieux, Wednesday 7 October 2026 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. This webinar explores how modern families can reconnect across generations by building a shared digital archive of memories without chaos. Learn how to clean up scattered photo collections across phones, computers, and cloud services and create a private, organized family space where everyone can contribute safely and effortlessly. Perfect for families looking to preserve their legacy together without sacrificing time, control, or privacy. VIEW RECORDING for FREE now through Tuesday 13 October 2026 at https://genealogybargains.com/lftwebinars-webinarlibrary via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

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FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR RECORDING Cameras My Ancestors Held and What They Tell Us

Cameras My Ancestors Held and What They Tell Us presented by Gordon L. McBean, Wednesday 7 October 2026 12:45pm EDT / 11:45am CDT / 10:45am MDT/ 9:45am PDT. Family pictures were originally portraits created in a studio by a professional photographer. Taken by professionals in their studios, the sessions were grand events! Imagine the excitement – spending the whole day getting dressed up for the one and only time in your life you were likely to have your picture taken. With the advent of the Kodak camera amateur photographers were able to record the family in any location. In these photographs we see how our ancestors lived. We see their friends and extended families over for a game or a picnic, the gang for a party, their homes inside and out. We might see them at work. They took pictures of prized possessions and events in their lives. There was an explosion in the number of family pictures recording every occasion. I have a collection of antique cameras owned by my ancestors. The very ones they held as they captured the moments in their lives. I also inherited the negative collection from my mother. To be useful in genealogy we need to be able to identify the people and places in the images and fix a date to them. The process of scanning them and then trying to identify who was in them is helped in part by being able to identify which camera was used. Cameras and film became available at a fixed date and later fell out of common usage. Each camera used either a different type of film or created an image of different ratios on the film. We will look at sorting the images by these different film stock and size ratios using this information to add to the knowledge we have about each photograph. Each piece of information we gather about the image helps us to identify the subject. The most important clue is to be able to fix the date that the photo was taken. This helps us narrow who the subject might be. No single clue can provide a date, but the sum of the evidence provides a good estimate. Clothing, hair styles, poses locations and backgrounds help us in our quest to identify the people and places. I was lucky to inherit the family negative collection. If people do not write on the beck of photographs, they definitely don’t identify who is captured on the negative and what was the date as well as the occasion. The process is like a great detective mystery. We just need to learn how to read the clues and follow them! Our family story is made richer with the addition of photographs. Names become individuals we can recognize and relate to. VIEW RECORDING for FREE now through Tuesday 13 October 2026 at https://genealogybargains.com/lftwebinars-webinarlibrary via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

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FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR RECORDING They Came from Virginia: A Case Study in African American Research and Methodology

They Came from Virginia: A Case Study in African American Research and Methodology presented by Julia A. Anderson, MA, AG®, AGL™, Friday 9 October 2026 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. African American research can be especially challenging for many reasons. This class will demonstrate sound methodology for tracing your African American ancestors by following the Todd family in a case study. VIEW RECORDING for FREE now through Thursday 15 October 2026 at https://genealogybargains.com/lftwebinars-webinarlibrary via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

Legacy Family Tree Webinars is a world pioneer in online genealogy education. For more than a decade, we’ve been offering the best in online educational genealogy content with live and recorded webinars featuring top experts in family history research. We enable genealogists across the globe and of all skill levels to enrich their knowledge and skills with top-quality sessions they can access from the comfort of their homes. Our vision is to educate, entertain, and inspire genealogists everywhere to gain new insights, find new resources, and make new discoveries about their family history.

Our story

Legacy Family Tree Webinars was founded by professional genealogist Geoff Rasmussen in September 2010. Originally envisioned as a “once or twice a month” live webinar series, the service quickly grew into a full-fledged membership site offering hundreds of webinars. In 2017, Legacy Family Tree was acquired by the global genealogy company MyHeritage, and in April 2021, we hosted our 1,500th webinar.

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