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 Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Vital Records Research Tips
Posted by Allison
 I've been thinking a lot about vital records lately, while working on our next webinar with presenter Lisa Louise Cooke: Vital Records: Researching Your US Ancestors' Births, Marriages and Deaths Online.
While I've got this topic on the brain, I thought I'd share a few tips with you:
- US vital records access and coverage varies from state to state. Each state has its own rules and regulations, but for privacy reasons, death records are usually closed to the public for around 50 years, and birth records for 75 to 100 years. But you can sometimes get these records for genealogical purposes if you can prove a relationship.
- Some states started state-level vital record keeping later than others—in certain cases, well into the 1900s. But many counties started recording vital statistics decades or even centuries before the state mandated it. Look for those records at state archives and through the Family History Library.
This is good background knowledge to frame your expectations for your vital records research. Lisa's going to get more specific in the webinar, and demonstrate web sites that can help you get to your ancestors' records.
The webinar will take place next Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. Eastern (that's 6 Central, 5 Mountain, 4 Pacific). You can read more about the session and register on ShopFamilyTree.com.
Vital Records | Webinars
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:21:01 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
New Webinar: Finding Vital Records Online
Posted by Diane
Varying availability and privacy restrictions can put getting your US ancestors’ official birth, marriage and death records among your more frustrating genealogical pursuits.
Help is on the way in our next webinar, Vital Records: Researching Your Ancestors' Births, Marriages and Deaths Online.
This session, presented by Lisa Louise Cooke (known for the Genealogy Gems and Family Tree Magazine podcasts), will cover vital records in the United States, including
- An overview of US birth, marriage and death records and what's in them
- Answers to the burning question of why coverage and access varies from place to place
- Types of vital records Web sites to keep an eye out for
- Online resources vital records and indexes
- Even if the record you need isn’t on the web, how to use online resources to get offline records
Participants receive access to a recording of the webinar, PDF copies of the presentation slides, and bonus Family Tree Magazine articles on vital records.
The webinar is Oct. 21, 7 pm EDT. Early birds save $10 on registration—it costs $39.99 until Oct. 8. And the first 10 registrants have the opportunity to submit information for possible use as examples in the presentation.
Click here to register.
Vital Records | Webinars
Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:08:41 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tour Footnote.com in a Free Webinar
Posted by Diane
Since it launched in 2007, historical records subscription site Footnote has added millions of record images to its collections of military records, 1860 and 1930 census records, naturalizations, city directories, newspapers, photographs and more.
Family Tree Magazine is happy to be able to bring you a free, 30-minute webinar that Footnote created with a tutorial of the site—a personalized tour showing you:
- what records are on Footnote
- search demos
- Footnote image viewer
- creating Footnote Pages about your ancestors with information and images you upload (Footnote's free "basic" members also can create pages and view other members' contributions)
To watch the webinar, click the big orange button below. On the resulting page, you’ll need to type in your first and last name and e-mail address, and then click Register to launch the webinar player.
(If you get a “Player in Progress” window, don’t close it or navigate away from it until after the webinar is over, or you’ll stop the webinar.)
Footnote | Webinars
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:51:45 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, September 11, 2009
$10 Off Our Upcoming Immigration Webinar
Posted by Allison
 Just a reminder that today's the last day to take advantage of the early bird rate on this month's webinar, Online Immigration Records: Retracing Your Ancestors' Journey on Sept. 22.
The discounted price of $39.99 expires at midnight tonight. After that, registration will cost $49.99.
If you haven't participated in one of our webinars, you could think of it as a "souped up" online genealogy seminar. Besides participation in the live event—which you can attend in your jammies if you want—you get a link to the recording so you watch the session as many times as you'd like, a PDF of the presentation slides and an e-book of related how-to guides for further reading.
Diane will be hosting the immigration webinar, which starts at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central/5 p.m. Mountain/4 p.m. Pacific. You'll find more details on the registration page.
Genealogy Events | immigration records | Webinars
Friday, September 11, 2009 9:53:15 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Monday, August 17, 2009
All About FamilySearch
Posted by Allison
A few weeks ago, I was talking with Family Tree Magazine’s art director, Christy, about German genealogy. We
both have Deutsch roots, and I
was telling her how I’d traced my one family branch in 18th-century Bavaria on
a trip to the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City. Christy hadn’t
known that it’s fairly easy to get historical records from Germany—and many
other places—through the FHL and local centers, which act like FHL branches.
I’ve had a lot of similar encounters, and it always
surprises me how many genealogy buffs don’t know the depth and breadth of
resources available from FamilySearch, the genealogy arm of Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Even Family Tree Magazine readers!) That’s why I decided to make
FamilySearch the topic of this month’s Family Tree Magazine webinar:
FamilySearch Essentials: How to Access Records From 100
Countries Without Leaving Town
This hourlong session will be hosted by yours truly
Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central/5 p.m. Mountain/4 p.m.
Pacific. In it, I’ll walk through FamilySearch’s offline and online genealogy
resources, show you how to find records relevant to your own genealogy search,
and demonstrate different tools on the FamilySearch Web site.
Registration costs $49.99, and you can sign up using the
link above. If you’re new to webinars and wonder how they work, see our FAQ.
P.S. If it’s German genealogy you want to learn more about,
watch for an article about Germany’s historical regions in the December 2009
issue of Family Tree Magazine, coming to subscribers’ mailboxes in late October.
FamilySearch | Genealogy Web Sites | International Genealogy | Research Tips | Webinars
Monday, August 17, 2009 10:40:25 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Find Your Family in Old Newspapers
Posted by Diane
You may remember me mentioning my bootlegging great-grandfather, who was a guest of a Texas penitentiary for nine months before Gov. O.B. Colquitt pardoned him. You also may have read about my struggle to find his trial records.
So I’m pinning my hopes on newspapers. I’ve set aside time during September's Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Little Rock to search Texarkana newspaper microfilm at the Arkansas History Commission (Texarkana straddles the Texas/Arkansas border).
I created a list of titles to check using the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America newspaper directory.
Your ancestor didn’t have to be the subject of a criminal trial or gubernatorial pardon to make the news. Newspapers also reported on births, marriages and deaths ; graduations; townspeople’s comings and goings; local gossip; local clubs and organizations; businesses, events and more.
As Web sites increasingly focusing on digitizing old newspapers, it’s the perfect time for our next Webinar on Finding Your Family in Old Newspapers.
Lisa Louise Cooke of Genealogy Gems will show you what’s in old newspapers, how to identify which ones may have information on your ancestors, and all the tips and tricks for finding and searching newspapers online.
The webinar is July 29 at 7 p.m. EDT, and costs $29.99. Your registration includes access to a recording of the presentation and copies of the slides. Learn more and sign up on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Newspapers | Webinars
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:36:19 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Heirloom Webinar Discount Expires Tonight
Posted by Allison
Attention, coupon clippers: Today is your last chance to save $10 off registration in our next webinar, Heirloom Preservation Made Easy.
Use coupon code yc72fk78cr when you sign up to get the early bird price of $39.99. The coupon expires at midnight Eastern daylight time today, June 8. The webinar will take place June 24 at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Although it's easy to get caught up in the challenges of research, this session focuses on a subject we often don't pay enough attention to until a precious memento is lost or ruined. Don't let that happen to you!
Family Heirlooms | Genealogy Events | Webinars
Monday, June 08, 2009 5:01:21 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Learn How to Care for Your Family's Treasures
Posted by Diane
In our little house, we have a few objects—nothing super-valuable—that I consider heirlooms: A dress my grandma sewed using the same pattern as her wedding dress; my husband’s grandfather’s harmonica; a playing card box from the time my dad’s family lived in Pickstown, SD, while his dad was working on the Fort Randall dam.
It’s not so much the thing, it’s what the thing represents to you. So heirlooms can take all kinds of shapes and sizes, and present an array of storage challenges—which makes me glad our next Webinar is about Heirloom Preservation Made Easy.
It's scheduled for Wednesday, June 24 at 7 p.m. My colleague Grace Dobush will present expert, sensible, easy-to-follow techniques on caring for and displaying everything from photos to old dolls and toys. Your registration for this Webinar includes - Participation in the live presentation and Q&A session
- Online access to the workshop recording after the session concludes
- PDF of the presentation slides for future reference
- Quick-reference heirloom care chart
- PDF of See and Save, a guide to protecting and storing paper, photos and textiles
- PDF of Keep It Reel, a guide to preserving audio and video memories
Go here to learn more and register—and get an early bird coupon code good for $10 off your registration fee through June 8.
Family Heirlooms | Webinars
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:15:09 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Last Chance for $10 Off Census Webinar
Posted by Allison
 The hours are waning to take advantage of the $10 early-bird discount on our next online workshop, Online Census Secrets: Best Web Sites and Strategies to Find Your Ancestors.
Diane and I will be leading this online seminar--"webinar" for short--May 27 at 7 p.m. EDT. If you've ever had trouble locating an ancestor in the census, you'll learn helpful tips and hints in this interactive session. We'll be demonstrating online census searching on screen, so you can see our advice in action.
Registration includes participation in the live workshop and Q&A session, of course, as well as these goodies:
• Online access to the workshop recording after the session concludes
• PDF of the presentation slides for future reference
• “Master the Census” article PDF
• Quick-reference chart showing which Web sites have which censuses and indexes
And until midnight EDT tonight (May 11), you can get $10 off the $49.99 workshop fee if you use coupon code: h6cl3cv7x4.
Visit our Web site for more details on the census workshop and to learn more about how webinars work.
census records | Genealogy Events | Webinars
Monday, May 11, 2009 10:58:55 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Learn Secrets for Finding Ancestors in Online Census Records
Posted by Diane
Census records are among the first resources genealogists check for relatives. But it doesn’t take long to discover it’s not as easy as typing a name into a database and out pops your ancestor. Our next Webinar will teach you secrets for finding census records both on free and fee-based sites. Online Census Secrets: Best Web Sites and Search Tips to Find Your Ancestors covers: • key facts about US censuses and census Web sites
• how to access online census records for free
• how to use the major online census collections at Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest Online and other sites
• a comparison of different sites’ records and indexes
• search strategies for finding elusive ancestors
The Webinar takes place Wednesday, May 27 at 7 p.m. EDT. Registration costs $49.99, but you’ll get $10 off when you register before midnight May 11. Not only will you participate in the live, interactive class (you see slides and demos and hear the presentation; you can ask questions at any time by typing into a box and hitting Send); but you'll also get access to the recorded Webinar after it’s over, a PDF of the presentation, our “Master the Census” article, and an online census records reference chart. Learn more about our Online Census Secrets Webinar and register on FamilyTreeMagazine.com. If you’ve never taken an online workshop before, click here for more details about how Webinars work.
census records | Webinars
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:31:45 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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