Legacy Family Tree Webinars (www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com) is an educational platform offering live and recorded online classes aimed at assisting genealogists of all levels, from beginners to experienced researchers, to expand their knowledge and improve their skills in genealogy and DNA. Live classes are held on the platform several times a week, and its library currently contains more than 2,000 classes on a wide range of topics related to family history research.
Geoff Rasmussen, Founder of Legacy Family Tree Webinars
The first live webinar occurred on September 15, 2010. Its topic was “Mapping Software for Genealogists”. Founder Geoff Rasmussen initially planned to hold one or two webinars a month and “see how it goes”; the business grew and expanded steadily as hundreds of speaking proposals came pouring in from top genealogists around the world. Legacy Family Tree Webinars is seen as a pioneer in online genealogy education.
2013: annual webinar memberships were offered, letting the public have access to all of the previous classes they may have missed, or that they might want to watch again.
2017: MyHeritage acquired the Legacy Family Tree software and webinar series with the vision to improve the platform, add closed-captioning and provide a greater variety of classes.
2018: High-quality, human-reviewed closed-captioning was added to webinar recordings.
Webtember - free month-long online genealogy conference at Legacy Family Tree Webinars2018: The MyHeritage webinar series was introduced, with twice-monthly free webinars offered focusing on MyHeritage features, tools and DNA straight from MyHeritage’s own product managers.
2019: Celebrated the 1,000th webinar.
2019: Introduced the Down Under webinar series. Once a month at noon Sydney time is a webinar tailored for viewers in the Australia and New Zealand time zones.
2020: The TechZone was introduced. “Build your tech skills in 10 minutes or less.”
2021: Introduced the African Diaspora webinar series: geared toward African-ancestored people in the United States and around the world.
2021: Introduced the O Canada webinar series with a focus on the broad range of ancestries found in Canada.
2022: Introduced the Mexico Research webinar series: educational webinars geared toward Mexican-ancestored people in the United States and around the world.
2023: Added Webinar Shorts - Sharpen your genealogy skills in 20 minutes or less.
