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YDNA and mtDNA webinar

26 Friday Feb 2016

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Mar4Mark Your Calendar! Well, mark ’em if you’re interested in learning more about YDNA and mtDNA.

A week from today, Friday, March 4th, at 2:00pm (EST) Legacy Family Tree Webinars hosts:

Making YDNA and mtDNA Part of Your Family History

The webinar will be presented by Diahan Southard, a microbiology graduate….who has a gift of making the technical understandable.

Learn more about the webinar and the presenter, or how to register by clicking above link.

Registration is FREE, and attending the webinar is free. If you’re not free to attend the webinar on Friday, never fear, Geoff will have it up in their library a couple hours after it ends. You can view it for free for 6 days, and then it goes into the membership area.

While you’re there to register for the DNA webinar, take a look around at the other 322 webinars by 47 different presenters available through Family Tree Webinars.

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Complex Evidence

29 Thursday Oct 2015

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Legacy Family Tree sponsors some wonderful webinars, usually four or five a month. They range from beginner, to intermediate, to advanced.

BittnerToday’s topic was, “Complex Evidence: What is It? How Does It Work? And Why Does It Matter?” The speaker was Warren Bittner, CGSM.

Complex evidence was a term I hadn’t encountered before in my brief genealogy life! I believe I heard him explain during the webinar that it’s a phrase he coined himself. His way of explaining it was to take us through a fascinating case study.

Before he started the case study, he went over the goal of genealogy, the genealogical proof standard, evidence evaluation standard, and exactly what he would cover during the case study. Summing up complex evidence came after the case study, along with something he called false research imperative.

If these things make you squeamish, or you’re only vaguely familiar with them, that’s how I felt! I just about had a headache half-way through the webinar, and by the end, I felt like I’d run a marathon. Trying to explain all he took us through isn’t possible for this beginner genealogist. In fact, after hearing all of the webinar, not even sure I can call myself a budding genealogist!

But I can highly recommended viewing his seminar at Family Tree Webinars. It’s ranked at an “Intermediate to Advanced” level, and that it surely is. But there’s much to learn that will help in your every day research. It’s especially valuable if you’ve ever came across two people with the same name, from the same place, with similar birth dates.

He goes through the proof standard, and the evidence evaluation standard with all the documents in the case study. Said he had around 200 documents total, but was only able to cover about 30 within the webinar time frame.

If you want to learn how to be a better genealogist and add some very useful tools to your genealogy tool box, definitely make some time in the next week to catch this recording. It’s free to view through November 2, 2015. After that you have to be a member of Family Tree Webinars, but it’s quite reasonably priced.

Currently there are nearly 300 webinars to view and over a thousand pages of instructor handouts, with more added every week . Yes, some of the webinars are free without the one week time restriction for viewing. And all live webinars are free, but you must register ahead of time for them. It’s a great place to learn about any aspect of genealogy, or to research if you’re stumped in a particular area.

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If you quit learning

It’s Webinar Wednesday!

29 Wednesday Jan 2014

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Don’t forget today is Webinar Wednesday over at Family Tree Webinars. Today’s topic presented by Kathryn Lake Hogan is:

Ten Reasons Your Ancestor Was in Canada

When you hit a brick wall in your research it’s time to consider Canada. Even if you think your American or immigrant ancestors were never in Canada, discover ten reasons why they actually may have been there. Learn how and where to find the Canadian or provincial records that will help you fill in the missing pieces of your ancestors’ lives.

You still have enough time to register. It starts at 1:00 Eastern. No worries if you miss it tho. It will be free in the Archives for a week after it’s broadcast. Geoff usually gets them edited and up within an hour after they end.

And because I’ve run out of time with the post I was going to put up today and am short on time, I’m reblogging a neighbor’s post from today. Don’t miss it – it’s a great read.

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