Upcoming Live Webinars

Get live genealogy hints and help from genealogy experts in our webinars! These interactive events will teach you how to improve your research skills and make new family history discoveries. Each webinar lasts about an hour and includes a Q&A session where you can get answers to your specific genealogy questions on the workshop topic.

Your Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com

With five billion historical records, Ancestry.com can unlock valuable information about your family—if you know how to make the most of its search and other tools. In this hour-long webinar, we’ll show you insider tricks and techniques for teasing out ancestor information from the site’s tens of thousands of databases.

DATE: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific
LENGTH: 1 hour
PRICE: $49.99 ($39.99 Early Bird Special)
PRESENTER: David Fryxell, Family Tree Magazine founder and contributing editor

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

• How to efficiently navigate Ancestry.com
• Tricks for finding the databases you need
• Tips for locating hard-to-find ancestors
• Things Ancestry.com doesn’t want you to know!

WHO SHOULD WATCH THIS WEBINAR:

• New and veteran Ancestry.com users who want to get the most out of the site
• Genealogists new to online research
• Anyone who’s stumped by Ancestry.com’s search system

More How-To Genealogy Webinars

Here’s a calendar of topics we’re planning for future months. Watch this space for details! Want to request a topic? Email us.

Discover and Preserve Your Family History Series

 State Genealogy Series

Note: Topics and dates are subject to change.