The genealogical world is awash in webinars!
As you will see to the right of this post, I have joined
the fray as well. I have an upcoming presentation for the 2020 Conference of the Virtual Genealogical Association in November. I gave a talk to the VGA membership last
year, but unfortunately, I missed their deadline to offer talks for 2021.
I have two recorded presentations with Legacy
Family Tree Webinars and have proposed
other offerings for next year. LFTW have been going for 10 years now and have 1,365
presentations in their library, 333 of them free to view. They are organized in
over 20 categories. New talks are added every month to LFTW.
I have two talks in the Family Tree (UK)
video library. There are 47
individual recordings available to the magazine’s subscribers, again with more
being added frequently. Many of the presentations were supposed to have been
given live at a conference to be held last spring in London, England, but
Covid-19 put a stop to that event.I will also be recording one of my favourites for the Family History Down Under conference in March 2021.Many, if not most family history societies and national
genealogical organizations have reverted to virtual presentations due to
lockdowns imposed by, again, limitations on gatherings as a result of the
Covid-19 pandemic. There are way too many to list here.
RootsTech will go all online in 2021, and free, with their RootsTech Connect conference. The Family History Federation is
organizing an event in November call the FHF Really Useful Family History Show. This one is very inexpensive.
There are continuing lists of webinars, seminars, podcasts,
conferences and other online family history gatherings available at Conference Keepers (also organized by country), Cyndi’s List, Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.Commercial and other data providers now have online
educational opportunities on their webpages, Facebook pages or YouTube: MyHeritage, Ancestry, FindMyPast, TheGenealogist, FamilySearch.Don’t forget libraries, archives and museums for live
and recorded events: The National Archives (UK), National Archives (US), Library and Archives Canada.Having access to all these online presentations is not
a bad thing although the biggest problems are finding the time and choosing
which ones to watch. The best way to find out what talks are upcoming and what
be of interest or value is to subscribe to various email lists and newslettersn
from societies (local and national), genealogical news providers, online
summary keepers, commercial database providers, blogs, etc., including all of
the ones I commented on above.
And I have not even
mentioned the multitude of courses available online!
