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Free Genealogy Webinars: Legacy Family Tree Webinars is the world’s most popular webinar website for genealogy webinars, where you can enjoy a robust offering of live and recorded genealogy webinars presented by top speakers. Check out the FREE genealogy webinars listed below. The webinars offered by Legacy Family Tree Webinars are recorded and available for FREE for the 7-day period AFTER the live event.

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FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR Researching your Ancestors in Surrey

Researching your Ancestors in Surrey presented by Sarah Pettyfer, QG, Friday 11 July 2025 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. Often viewed as a rural retreat for London residents, Surrey presents unique challenges for genealogical research due to its shifting boundaries over the 19th and 20th centuries. This talk will help you build a solid foundation for exploring your Surrey roots with confidence, guiding you through the complexities of tracing your Surrey ancestry, offering strategies to streamline your research journey. Learn about the essential archives and genealogical sources available, both online and in-person, and gain insights into where to find support from local Family History Societies. Register for FREE at http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9490 via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR Civil War Records: What is a Reasonably Exhaustive Search?

Civil War Records: What is a Reasonably Exhaustive Search? presented by Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA, Tuesday 15 July 2025 8pm EDT / 7pm CDT / 6pm MDT/ 5pm PDT. To correlate evidence, you must have evidence to correlate. Typical researchers stop too soon in their evidence collection, believing they have found all there is to find about a soldier. There is more to military research than the compiled military service record or the pension application file. A reasonably exhaustive search is not limited to the two or three typical record sources. Register for FREE at http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9494 via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR Tracing Scots Ancestors Before 1855

Tracing Scots Ancestors Before 1855 presented by Alison Spring, Wednesday 16 July 2025 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. Researching Scots ancestors before civil registration in 1855 can be challenging! Learn about some of the rich alternative sources you can mine when looking for your earlier forebears, like tax records, directories, newspapers, and more – where to find them, and how to make the most of them. Register for FREE at http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9495 via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR Strategies for Sorting Out and Documenting Mexican Names and Families

Strategies for Sorting Out and Documenting Mexican Names and Families presented by Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, Friday 18 July 2025 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. This presentation demonstrates methods and tools for tackling two common predicaments when researching families of Mexican origin. First, distinguishing between people with the same names, living in the same place, at the same. And second, determining which compound given names and compound surnames to record in your source citations, online trees, and family narratives. Register for FREE at http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9496 via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

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 The Six-Folder Genealogy Organizing System

The Six-Folder Genealogy Organizing System presented by Nancy E. Loe, MA, MLS, Wednesday 2 July 2025 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. Lost in a sea of digital ﬁles, family photos, and paper records? Can’t ﬁnd the records you know you have? Scanning photos and records more than once? This archives-based system helps you organize ALL of your genealogy research and records in just six folders. No need for color codes, numbering systems, or other complicated schemes with ideas from a professional genealogist and archivist. VIEW for FREE now through Tuesday 8 July 2025 at http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9488 via Legacy Family Tree Webinars. #ad #genealogy #webinars

FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR RECORDING Discovering Your Irish Roots: Uncover Hidden Stories and Sources with MyHeritage

Discovering Your Irish Roots: Uncover Hidden Stories and Sources with MyHeritage presented by Lorna Moloney, Tuesday 8 July 2025 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. Are your ancestors from the Emerald Isle? Whether your Irish roots are well-known or just a whisper in your family tree, this exciting webinar will show you how to trace them using MyHeritage’s rich and ever-growing collection of Irish records. Join Lorna Moloney, genealogy expert, for a deep dive into newly updated databases, rare historical collections, and clever research tips tailored for Ireland. From birth and marriage records to immigration files, land, directories and newspaper archives, you’ll learn how to unearth family stories you never knew existed. Whether you’re a genealogy beginner or a seasoned sleuth, this session is packed with lively insights, real examples, and expert guidance to bring your Irish heritage to life. VIEW RECORDING now through Monday 14 July 2025 for FREE at http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9492 via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

FREE GENEALOGY WEBINAR RECORDING Forgotten Records: Pension Ledgers and the Payments they Represent

Forgotten Records: Pension Ledgers and the Payments they Represent presented by Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA, Wednesday 9 July 2025 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT/ 11am PDT. Few people take the time to look at the pension payment process and the records that are created. Records may contain information about movement, kin, and primary sources for dates of death. VIEW RECORDING for FREE now through Tuesday 15 July 2025 at http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9491 via Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

About 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.

What members are saying

“I have been researching family history for 50 years, but still learn something from every webinar!” — Sue Grable

“I just found my great-grandfather’s passage record on MyHeritage during this class. THANK YOU! You pointed the way. I have been looking for YEARS!” — Debra Koehler

“NEVER thought I’d get to the point where this stuff made sense…Realizing how much I’ve learned from this pioneering way you developed to teach genealogy, and the talented folks you bring in to share their knowledge and experience with us. Hard to believe how far I’ve come. And still learning. Thank you!” — Annie Delyth Stratton

“There are so many wonderful opportunities to learn… I really enjoy watching so many talented people further my education about DNA and family research.” — Beverly Fortney Leeming

“Field trips and expensive seminars are out of the question, so your webinars are a pot of gold for me. The quality is top drawer.” — Janis L.

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