Continuing Education

2024

  • 25 January 2024, American Ancestors, Kyle Hurst, Writing a Register-Style Sketch (webinar, one hour).
  • 6 March 2024, Leah LaPerle Larkin, BanyanDNA: A New Tool for Genetic Genealogy and Complex Pedigrees (webinar, one hour).
  • 21 March 2024, Your DNA Guide, Diahan Southard, Finding the Generation of Connection (webinar, one hour).
  • 30 April 2024, Leah LaPerle Larkin, Working with WATO and WATO+ (webinar, one hour).
  • 5 May 2024, Irish Genealogical Society International, Mary Wickersham, Waves & Ripples: Irish Migration Patterns to and Across North America (live class, two hours).
  • 21 May 2024, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Thomas W. Jones, Editing Your Own Writing – Part 1 (webinar, one hour).
  • 4 June 2024, Leah LaPerle Larkin, Solved! Case Studies in Genetic Genealogy, (webinar, one hour).
  • 18 June 2024, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Thomas W. Jones, Editing Your Own Writing – Part 2 (webinar, one hour).
  • 20 June 2024, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Martha Capwell Fox, The Silk Industry in Eastern Pennsylvania: 1890–1990 (webinar, one hour).
  • 27 June 2024, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, John Grenham, Mapping Ireland’s Records (webinar, one hour).
  • 12 July 2024, Family Tree Webinars, Dr. Lesley Trotter, Researching Cornish Ancestors (webinar, one hour).
  • 4–6 October 2024, East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference: John Motzi, Visual Phasing with 2 Siblings & DNA Painter Tools (conference recording, one hour); Dana Leeds, The Leeds Method and AI (conference recording, one hour); Kate Penney Howard, Colonial Origins and DNA (conference recording, one hour); Bridget Lennane – Paternity Case Studies (conference recording, one hour).
  • 11 Nov 2024, Allen County Public Library, Friends of the Lincoln Collection, Brian Matthew Jordan, Ph.D., “Held in War’s Grasp” the Ordeals of Veteranhood After the Civil War (webinar, one hour).

2023

  • 19 January 2023, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Katy Bodenhorn Barnes, Beyond the Usual Suspects: Genealogy Resources at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (webinar, one hour).
  • 1 February 2023, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Michael D. Lacopo, Using Mitochondrial DNA Testing for Genealogical Problem Solving (webinar, one hour).
  • 8 February 2023, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Maurice Gleeson, Hints & Tips for Solving Irish Cases of Unknown Parentage Using DNA (webinar, one hour).
  • 28 February 2023, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Adrienne Abiodun, The State of African American Genealogy: A New Reconstruction Era (webinar, one hour).
  • 16 March 2023, International Society for British Genealogy and Family History, Spring Institute with John Grenham, The Revolution of Online Irish Research: Overview and Major Records, Where the Bodies Are Buried: The Making of JohnGrenham.com, A Long Hard Road: The Story of Irish Famine Migration to the U.S.A., Q&A (online institute, six hours).
  • 11 April 2023, Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Hybrid Tuesday Talk: Revolutionary Appearances: How Portraits of Women Evolved Around the Revolution (webinar, one hour).
  • 19 April 2023, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Reconstructing Black Families: Stories from the Chew Papers (webinar, one hour).
  • 20 April 2023, AmericanAncestors, Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos, The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd (webinar, one hour).
  • 20 April 2023, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Dana Palmer, Finding Your German Ancestor’s Place of Origin (webinar, one hour).
  • 3 May 2023, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Maurice Gleeson, Using Multiple WATO Analyses to Break Through a Brick Wall (webinar, one hour).
  • 10, 17, 24, and 31 May 2023, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Pennsylvania Research: Four Centuries of History and Genealogy (online classes, six hours).
  • 10 June 2023, Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, James Beidler, Before They Were Counties: Records of Pennsylvania’s Western Half (webinar, one hour).
  • 15 June 2023, New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, Janet Hall Werner, Finding Daniel McCormick: Using DNA to Find an Immigrant Ancestor’s Irish Origin (webinar, one hour).
  • 18–23 June 2023, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Rich Venezia, Marian L. Smith, Alec Ferretti, Marisa Louie Lee, Beyond the Golden Door: Immigrants to the U.S.A. after 1890 (online institute, 35 hours).
  • 21 June 2023, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Paul Woodbury, Intersections of DNA and Document Evidence (webinar, one hour).
  • 22 June 2023, Megan Clark Young, Finding and Using Pennsylvania Land Records to Solve Tough Genealogical Cases (webinar, one hour).
  • 20 July 2023, Society of Genealogists, Sophie Kay, Negative Space: How Genealogy Gaps Can Help Your Tree Flourish (webinar, one hour).
  • 5 August–12 August 2023, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Genealogy Event (PaGE), six keynotes, 30 hours of webinars by featured speakers, 15 hours moderating live Q&A sessions (online conference, 51 hours).
  • 6 September 2023, Library of Congress, Chronicling America: “Turning Points in History” (webinar, one hour).
  • 6 September 2023, National Genealogical Society, Member Connects, Angela McGhie and Stephen Little, Artificial Intelligence and Genealogy (webinar, 90 minutes)
  • 19 September 2023, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Karen Stanbary, Follow the Trail of Records and DNA from Ireland to Oregon (1810–1860) (webinar, one hour).
  • 21 September 2023, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Martha Capwell Fox, Geography, Geology, and Genius: Coal and Canals in Pennsylvania (webinar, one hour.)
  • 11 October 2023, Association of Professional Genealogists, Sophie Kay, Making Genealogy Accessible (webinar, one hour).
  • 1 November 2023, Tennessee Genealogical Society, Tom McCulloch, Genealogy with Moravian Church Records (webinar, one hour).

2022

  • 20 January 2022, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Diahan Southard, DNA Ethnicity in 2022 (webinar, one hour).
  • 10 February 2022, Your DNA Guide, Diahan Southard and Lisa Janine Cloud, Let’s Talk About Family Tree DNA (webinar, one hour).
  • 17 February 2022, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Denys Allen, Vital Records of Pennsylvania (webinar, one hour).
  • 18 and 25 February 2022, Family History Academy, Thomas W. Jones, Masterclass—Advanced Genealogical Writing Skills Using Microsoft Word—Focus on Styles (online course, three hours).
  • 24 February 2022, Germanic Genealogy Society, Michael Lacopo, Using Mitochondrial DNA in Solving a Pennsylvania Case (webinar, one hour).
  • 26 February 2022, International Society for British Genealogy and Family History, Kathryn Lake Hogan, Just Across the Border (webinar, one hour).
  • 11 and 18 March 2022, Family History Academy, Thomas W. Jones, Masterclass—Advanced Genealogical Writing Skills Using Microsoft Word—Focus on Margins, Headers, and Footers (online course, three hours).
  • 21 March 2022, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Lecture Series, Craig R. Scott, Finding Women—Maiden Name Unknown, (webinar, one hour).
  • 1 and 8 April 2022, Family History Academy, Thomas W. Jones, Masterclass—Advanced Genealogical Writing Skills Using Microsoft Word—Focus on Tables and Figures (online course, three hours).
  • 23 and 24 April 2022, East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference—Rob Warthen, Using DNAGedcom to Understand More About Your DNA Matches; Kitty Cooper, Advanced Tools at GEDmatch: Using Segment Data; (online conference).
  • 29 April 2022, Family History Academy, Thomas W. Jones, Masterclass—Advanced Genealogical Writing Skills Using Microsoft Word—Focus on Paragraphing, Subheads, and Page Layout (online course, three hours).
  • 22 May 2022, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Lecture Series, Patti Hobbs, Problem Solving with DNA: Case Studies (webinar, one hour).
  • 30 May 2022, Maureen Taylor, Cousin Connections: Plan a Virtual Family Reunion, a Three-Part Master Class (online course, three hours).
  • 21 June 2022, Board for Certification of Genealogists and Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Denise Cross, Negative Evidence: Making Something Out of Nothing (webinar, one hour).
  • 22 June 2022, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Paul Milner, Irish Emigration to North America: Before, during, and after Famine (webinar, one hour).
  • 1 July 2022, Family History Academy, Leah LaPerle Larkin, DNA Directions: Answering the Hard Questions (webinar, three hours).
  • 10–15 July 2022, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Paula Stuart-Warren et al, Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills (institute, 35 hours).
  • 23 July 2022, Genealogical Forum of Oregon, Kevin Borland, Borland Genetics (online broadcast, three and a half hours).
  • 30 August 2022, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Dan Bouk, Democracy’s Data: the Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them (webinar, one hour).
  • 7 October 2022, Minnesota Genealogical Society, North Star Conference, Kevin Borland, Reconstructing Max Freudenberg (online class, one hour).
  • 23 and 30 September 2022, Family History Academy, Thomas W. Jones, Citing DNA-Related Sources in Genealogical Writing (online class, four hours).
  • 14 and 21 October 2022, Family History Academy, Thomas W. Jones, Documenting Lineages (online class, four hours).
  • 4 November 2022, WikiTree Day, Kevin Borland, Getting Started with Borland Genetics (webinar, one hour). Available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/acut3MH8DCI.
  • 8 November 2022, DAR Museum, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Mistress of the Market: White Women and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Slave Trade (webinar, one hour).
  • 1 December 2022, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Researching Genealogy at the Free Library of Philadelphia (webinar, one hour).
  • 1 and 8 December 2022, Family History Academy, Leah Larkin, What Are The Odds? (WATO) (online course, three hours).
  • 8 December 2022, Friends of the Hennepin County Library, Talk of the Stacks with Stacy Schiff [author of The Revolutionary Samuel Adams] (webinar, one hour).

2021

  • 5, 12, 19, 26 January 2021, Museum of the American Revolution, American Revolution 101 (online course, six hours).
  • 10-15 January 2021, Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, Karen Stanbary, Meeting Standards Using DNA Evidence (online institute, thirty-five hours).
  • 21 January 2021, Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Extended, Kimberly Powell, Tools for Analyzing and Visualizing (online mini-institute, three and a half hours).
  • 21 January 2021, Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Extended, Kimberly Powell, Scrivener for Research and Writing (online mini-institute, three and a half hours).
  • 13 February 2021, Yankee Genealogical Society, Craig R. Scott, Researching Your French and Indian War Ancestor (webinar, one hour).
  • 4 February 2021, Diahan Southard, Get Your DNA Organized! (webinar, one hour).
  • 14 February 2021, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Lecture Series, Craig R. Scott, Revolutionary War Era Genealogy–Part One (webinar, one hour).
  • 16 March 2021, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Recreating Place: Uncovering, Interpreting, and Presenting the Past (90 minute webinar panel, plus videos and readings), curator and museum professional Elliot Bostwick Davis, novelist Christina Schwarz, and Newbury Street Press genealogist Kyle Hurst.
  • 21 March 2021, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Lecture Series, Craig R. Scott, Revolutionary War Era Genealogy–Part Two (webinar, one hour).
  • 6 May 2021, Diahan Southard, How to ID Your Mystery DNA Match (webinar, one hour).
  • 12 May 2021, Minnesota State Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Rebecca Whitman Koford, The Problem with Porters (webinar, one hour).
  • 16 May 2021, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Lecture Series, David Allen Lambert, 17th Century New England Resources (webinar, one hour).
  • 19-20 May 2021, National Genealogical Society, NGS 2021 Live!—Elizabeth Shown Mills, Elusive Ancestors: Never Too Poor to Trace; Thomas W. Jones, Writing About and Documenting Genealogical Conclusions Using DNA Test Results; Craig R. Scott, Establishing Identity and Kinship with Military Records; Elizabeth Shown Mills, Finding Females: Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Paramours; Angie Bush, Leveraging Genetic Networks to Break Down Brick Walls (webinars, one hour each).
  • 4 June 2021, Diahan Southard, Why Do YDNA (webinar, one hour).
  • 9 June 2021, Minnesota State Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Rebecca Whitman Koford, I Am Elizabeth (webinar, one hour).
  • 24 June 2021, Richard Atkinson, Mr. Atkinson’s Rum Contract (webinar, one hour).
  • 8 July 2021, Smithsonian Associates, Dan Patterson and Clinton Terry, Surveying in Colonial America: The Point of Beginning (webinar, one hour).
  • 9 July 2021, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Ken Turino, Reimagining Historic House Museums (webinar, one hour).
  • 22 Jul 2021, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration to New England: Conventicles to Companies to Congregations (webinar, one hour).
  • 24 Jul 2021, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Researching 17th-Century Settlers to New England (online conference, seven hours): Robert Charles Anderson, Puritan Pedigrees: the Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England; David Curtis Dearborn, Settlement of New England; Alicia Crane Williams, Working in and Understanding Original Records; Lindsay Fulton, 17th-Century published Resources; Christopher C. Child, Breaking Down Genealogical Brick Walls in 17th-Century New England.
  • 25-30 Jul 2021, Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research, David E. Rencher, Irish Genealogical Research and Methodology (online institute, 30 hours).
  • 11, 18, 25 Aug 2021, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Researching Colonial War Ancestors in New England (online course, 5 hours).
  • 23–27 Aug 2021, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Amy Arner, Walking in Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania Research (online institute, 30 hours).
  • 24 Aug 2021, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, David McDonald, Ten Top Tips for Completing a Genealogical Project (webinar, 1 hour).
  • 26 Aug 2021, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Rich Venezia, Ship Manifests: An In-Depth Look (webinar, 1 hour).
  • September–October 2021, Your DNA Guide (Diahan Southard), The Academy, YDNA for Genealogy Course (online course,  8 hours).
  • 11–15 October 2021, International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH), Chris Paton, Tracing Your Irish Family History (online institute, 20 hours).
  • 14 November 2021, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Lecture Series, Christie Caywood, Autosomal DNA & How to Use Matches to Add to Your Family Tree (webinar, 1 hour).

2020

  • 22 January 2020, D. Joshua Taylor, New Tools and Ideas in Research (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 1 February 2020, Kathryn Lake Hogan, All Kinds of Loyalists (webinar), Yankee Genealogical Society (one hour).
  • 22 February 2020, Follow the Money: Breaking Down Brick Walls Using Financial Records (online conference), New England Historic Genealogical Society (five hours). Kyle Hurst, Land Rich or Dirt Poor?;  Katrina Fahy, Probing Probate Records; Melanie McComb, Mining Pension Records for Genealogical Gold; Lindsay Fulton, Big Brother Transactions: Tax, Court, Welfare, and Town Records; Eileen Curley Pironti, Using Bank Records to Break Through Your Brick Wall.
  • 26-29 February 2020, RootsTech Live Stream (four hours). Adding Branches to Your Family Tree Using DNA, Angie Bush; What’s New at Ancestry, Christa Cowan; DNA, Genealogy, and Law Enforcement, Blaine Bettinger; Healing & Family History–the Emotional Side of DNA, Robin Wirthlin; Tackling Difficult Chapters of Our Family History, Cheri Daniels.
  • 21 March 2020, Finding Irish Origins (online conference), New England Historic Genealogical Society (five hours). Understanding Irish Land Divisions, Sheilagh Doerfler; Before You Leap: Searching American Records for Irish Origins, Eileen Curley Pironti; Strategies for Determining Origins, Melanie McComb; Using DNA to Determine Irish Origins, Pam Holland; Making the Leap: Organizing Your Irish Record Research, Judy Lucey.
  • 3 April 2020, D. Joshua Taylor, Genealogy Resources of the Daughters of the American Revolution (webinar), New York Genealogical & Biographical Society (one hour).
  • 26 April 2020, Emily Hackett-Fiske, Lucidchart for Genealogists (webinar), Association of Professional Genealogists (one hour).
  • 9 May 2020, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Mayflower Migrations: Origins and Diaspora (online conference): Robert Charles Anderson, The Deep Roots of the Mayflower Migration and Mapping the Origins of the Mayflower and Great Migration; Katrina Fahy, After the Landing: Exploring the Diaspora of Mayflower Descendants (four hours).
  • 18 May 2020, Tahitia McCabe, Genealogy’s Community of Practice: Developing Genealogical Education (webinar), Association of Professional Genealogists (one hour).
  • 20 May 2020, National Genealogical Society, NGS Live! (online conference): Thomas W. Jones, Validating Unsourced Online Information; Judy G. Russell, Breaker Boys and Spinner Girls: Child Labor Laws and Their Records; Crista Cowan, What’s New on Ancestry; Ron Tanner, What’s New on FamilySearch; Elizabeth Shown Mills, Turning Witnesses into Evidence; Janine Cloud, Testing–It’s Not Just Ethnicity; Blaine T. Bettinger, What If? Learning About DNA Through Case Studies (six and a half hours).
  • 21 May 2020, Lindsay Fulton, Creating a Research Plan for Cluster Research, New England Historic Genealogical Society (one hour).
  • May 2020, Lindsay Fulton, Finding Parents: Breaking Down Brick Walls Using Cluster Research, New England Historic Genealogical Society (one hour).
  • 15-17 July, Christopher Child and Lindsay Fulton, American Ancestors Virtual Summer Institute for Advanced Researchers: Contributing to Mayflower Scholarship, New England Historic Genealogical Society (eighteen hours).
  • 20-24 July, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Thomas W. Jones, Mastering Genealogical Documentation (thirty-five hours).
  • 8-9 September, Maurice Gleeson, DNA Virtual Institute, International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (eight hours).
  • 12 December, David Allen Lambert, Melanie McComb, Ann Lawthers, Katrina Fahy, Researching American Revolutionary War Patriots, New England Historic Genealogical Society (seven hours).
  • November (completion), DNA and the DAR: Using DNA as a Piece of the Evidence for a DAR Application (eight hours).

2019

  • 15 January 2019, Margaret R. Fortier, Visualizing Information for Genealogists (webinar), Board for Certification of Genealogists/Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 17 January 2019, Todd Pattison, Preserving Your Family Treasures (webinar), New England Historic Genealogical Society (one hour).
  • 25 January 2019, Elissa Scalise Powell, Patriot or Not? Using the Genealogical Proof Standard on a Closed DAR Line (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 6 February 2019, Shellee Morehead, DNA and the GPS Solves a Mystery: Hamiltons in Colonial New England (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 13 February 2019, Blaine Bettinger, Reconstructing Your Genetic Family Tree (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 19 March 2019, Debra S. Mieszala, The Five-Story Fall: Correlating Indirect and Direct Evidence to Extend the Pedigree (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 6 April 2019, Rebecca Whitman Koford, How I Built My Own Brick Wall (webinar),  Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 8-11 May 2019, National Genealogical Society, 2019 Family History Conference (conference livestream): Thomas W. Jones, Building a Credible Lineage Despite Missing Information, Conflicting and Incorrect Records, and Undocumented Publications; Elizabeth Shown Mills, Context: a Powerful Tool for Problem-Solving; Roberta J. Estes, DNA: King Arthur’s Mighty Genetic Lightsaber; Bernice Bennett, Finding Relatives Through DNA When Family Trees Do Not Exist; Nancy A. Peters, Reporting on Research: Standards Encourage Better Communication; Warren Bittner, The Fisherman Who Wanted to Marry the Executioner’s Daughter: Stories from German Marriage Sources; John Grenham, UK Sources for Irish Immigrants; Blaine Bettinger, Using a DNA Map to Navigate Your Brick Walls; Debbie Parker Wayne, Writing a Conclusion Incorporating DNA Evidence; Rebecca Whitman Koford, Writing the Family Narrative: a Strategy for Breaking Down Brick Walls.
  • 30 May 2019, Southern California Genealogical Society, Genetic Genealogy 2019 (conference livestream): Emily Aulicino, Convincing Family and Strangers to Test and Why (one hour); Blaine Bettinger, DNA ABCs: Getting from “Unknown New Match” to “Known Cousin” (one hour); Tim Janzen, Taking Your Use of GedMatch to the Next Level (one hour); Kitty Munson Cooper, Using DNA and GWorks for Solving Unknown Parentage Cases (one hour); Diahan Southard, Finding Missing Persons with DNA Testing (one hour).
  • 31 May-1 June 2019, Southern California Genealogical Society, Jamboree 2019 (conference livestream): Daniel Earl, Funeral Homes and Family History: They’re Dying to Meet You; Donna M. Moughty, Strategies for Finding the Locality of Your Irish Ancestors; Paula Stuart-Warren, Major Midwestern Databases and Indexes for Family History Research; Thomas MacEntee, Genealogy Pit Stop: Research in 15 Minute Increments; Colleen Greene, Working More In-Depth with Mexican Civil Registration Records; Michael L. Strauss, Historical Maps: the World at Your Fingertips; Janice Lovelace, Afro-Latinx in the Old West; Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, Plain Folk–Researching Amish and Mennonite Families; Dave Oboe, Canadiana’s Genealogical Treasures; D. Joshua Taylor, Online Library Catalogs: a Genealogist’s Best Kept Secret; Lisa Alzo, Silent Voices: Telling the Stories of Your Female Immigrant Ancestors; Annette Burke Lyttle, Border–What Border? Our Ancestors Who Called Both Canada and USA Home.
  • 7 August 2019, Legacy Family Tree Webinars: Nicka Smith, Case Studies in Gray: Identifying Shared Ancestries Through DNA and Genealogy (one hour).
  • 4 September 2019, Legacy Family Tree Webinars: Michelle Leonard, Combining DNA and Traditional Research–In-Depth Case Studies (one hour).
  • 6 September 2019, Board for Certification of Genealogists, Joy Reisinger Lecture Series (live webinars): Elizabeth Shown Mills, Reasonably Exhaustive Research: the First Criteria for Genealogical Proof; Martha Garrett, Finding Immigrants Who ‘Disappeared’: a Research Approach Based on Recognizing and Challenging Assumptions; Judy G. Russell, Share and Share Alike: the Rules of Genealogical Privacy; Karen Stanbary, Details of New and Modified DNA-Related Standards; Melinda Henningfield, How to Write a Case Study that Meets the New Standards for DNA: as Codified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists.
  • 13 November 2019, Legacy Family Tree Webinars: Rick Sayre, Soldier’s Homes (1865-1930) Caring for Our Veterans (one hour).

2018

  • 17 February 2018, Ed Gilbert, RCSI, The Irish DNA Atlas (recorded lecture), Genetic Genealogy Ireland (one hour).
  • 19 February 2018, Blaine Bettinger and Karen Stanbary, Genetic Genealogy for Professionals (webinar), Association of Professional Genealogists (one and a half hours).
  • 28 February 2018, Jennifer Holik, Finding the Answers: the Basics of WWII Research (recorded lecture), RootsTech 2018 (one hour).
  • 19 March 2018, Blaine Bettinger and Karen Stanbary, Genetic Genealogy for Professionals: Research Reports (webinar), Association of Professional Genealogists (one and a half hours).
  • 21 March 2018, Geoff Rasmussen and Ran Snir, Hands-On with MyHeritage DNA (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one and a half hours).
  • 17 April 2018, Patti Lee Hobbs, Better Together: Making Your Case with Documents and DNA (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one and a half hours).
  • 21 April 2018, Irish Virtual Conference: Gillian Hunt, Church Records for Irish Research (one hour); Fiona Fitzsimons, Finding Women in the Irish Records (one hour); Chris Paton, Irish Land Records (one hour); Maurice Gleeson, Online Resources for Irish Research (one hour).
  • 3-4 May 2018, National Genealogical Society Conference, Grand Rapids, Livestream: LaBrenda Garrett Nelson, Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Ancetors Who Came out of Slavery (one hour); Terry Koch-Bastic, The Price of Loyalism: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (one hour); Diahan Southard, The Y-DNA Test Should Be Your Favorite(one hour); Angie Bush, Your Cousins Are Your Secret Weapon (one hour); Blaine Bettinger, Native American DNA: Separating Fact from Fiction (one hour); Angela Packer McGhie, History, Records, and Context: Researching the Locations Your Ancestors Lived (one hour); Elizabeth Shown Mills, Samuel Witter vs. Samuel Witter: Separating Same-Name Soldiers, War of 1812 (one hour); Thomas W. Jones, Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events (one hour); Judy G. Russell, A Matter of Standards: DNA and the GPS (one hour); Elissa Scalise Powell, Deeper Analysis: Techniques for Successful Problem-Solving (one hour).
  • 15 May 2018, Board for Certification of Genealogists webinar: Paula Stuart-Warren, Developing Successful Research Habits (one hour).
  • 31 May 2018, Southern California Genealogical Society, DNA Day Livestream: Paul Woodbury, From Chance to Design: Planning for Successful Genetic Genealogy Research; Leah Larkin, When Your Tree is a Banyan: Untangling Endogamy in Your Family History; Michael Lacopo, Using Y-DNA Testing for Advanced Genealogical Problems; Tim Janzen, Getting the Most from Your Autosomal DNA Test Results; Angie Bush, DNA Testing and Mirror Trees; Blaine T. Bettinger, Shared Matches and Genetic Networks (six hours).
  • 11 July 2018, Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, The Art of Negative Space Research: Women (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one and a half hours).
  • 9 May 2018, Unlock the Past in Seattle, livestream: Maurice Gleeson, Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestor to Ireland–a Strategic Approach, Challenges with Irish Genetic Methodology, Newspapers Gravestones & Probate Records, Navigating Irish Birth Marriage & Death Records; Wayne Shepheard, Genealogy and the Little Ice Age; Cyndi Ingle, The Hidden Web, Digging Deeper; Blaine Bettinger, Phasing and Mapping Your DNA (seven hours).
  • 15 October 2018, Association of Professional Genealogists webinars: D. Joshua Taylor, 20 Essential Tips for Genealogical Speakers (one and a half hours).
  • 19 October 2018, Joy Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series, recorded webinars (Legacy Family Tree Webinars): Elissa Scalise Powell, Deeper Analysis: Techniques for Successful Problem Solving; Tom Jones, Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events; Judy G. Russell, The Discriminating Genealogist: Telling Good Evidence from Bad; Jeanne Bloom, Past Conflict Repatriation: the Role of Genealogists and Methodology in Fulfilling Our Nation’s Promise; Rebecca Whitman Koford, John Jacob Kramer: a Case Study of Mistaken Identity among Revolutionary War Soldiers (five hours).
  • 28 November 2018, Paula Stuart-Warren, Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking (webinar), Legacy Family Tree Webinars (80 minutes).

2017

  • 4 January 2017, James M. Baker, Strategies to Find the Most Challenging Ancestors with Autosomal DNA Data (webinar), Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 21 February 2017, Karen Stanbary, Weaving DNA Test Results into a Proof Argument (webinar), Board for Certification of Genealogists/Family Tree Webinars (one and a half hours).
  • 26 April, 6 June, 28 June 2017, Dr. Euan Roger, Reading Old Documents: Introduction to Medieval and Tudor Palaeography I, II, III (webinars), The National Archives of the UK (three hours).
  • 3-31 May 2017, Robert Charles Anderson, Elements of Genealogical Analysis: a Class in Methodology (online course), New England Historic Genealogical Society (seven hours).
  • 16 May 2017, Debbie Parker Wayne, MAXY DNA: Correlating mt-at-X-Y DNA with the GPS (webinar), Board for Certification of Genealogists, hosted at Legacy Family Tree Webinars (one hour).
  • 18 May 2017, Ann Lawthers, Resources for Pennsylvania Genealogy (webinar), New England Historic Genealogical Society (one hour).
  • 20, 24, 27 May 2017, Blaine Bettinger, Visual Phasing: Mapping DNA to Your Grandparents (online course), Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research (seven hours).
  • May 2017, NGS 2017 Livestream Selections (recorded conference lectures), National Genealogical Society (ten hours): Blaine Bettinger, Using Third-Party Tools to Analyze Your Autosomal DNA; Angie Bush, The Genetic Genealogy Revolution; Judy G. Russell, DNA and the Hidden Half of the Family; Diahan Lyn Southard, Five Tips to Make Sense of Your DNA Testing; Diahan Lyn Southard, When You’re Not Who You Thought You Were; Michael Hait, One Dollar and Natural Love and Affection: Analyzing Deeds Deeply; Thomas Wright Jones, Converting a Bunch of Information into a Credible Conclusion; Barbara Vines Little, Recreating Your Ancestor’s Neighborhood; Gail Jackson Miller, The Genealogical Proof Summary: What It Is and Is Not; Elizabeth Shown Mills, What’s the Evidence? How to Probe Documents Beyond the Obvious.
  • 20 July 2017, Darryn Lickliter, The DAR Library: Resources for Genealogists (webinar), Association of Professional Genealogists (one hour).
  • 31 July-4 August 2017, Researching Family in Pennsylvania (institute course), Historical Society of Pennsylvania (forty hours).
  • 9-10 December 2017, I4GG (Institute for Genetic Genealogy) Conference, San Diego (recorded lectures): CeCe Moore, Creating and Utilizing Genetic Networks in Your Research (one hour); CeCe Moore, Breaking Down Genealogical Brick Walls Using AncestryDNA (one hour); Rob Warthen, Using DNAGedcom’s GWorks (one hour); Angie Bush, Power Tools for the Genetic Genealogist (one hour); Katie Welka, Furthering Your Research with LivingDNA (one hour); Hillary Vance, Tracing Your DNA Across the Ages with 23andMe (one hour); Jim Brewster, What’s New at Family Tree DNA? (one hour); Blaine Bettinger, Visual Phasing How-To (one hour); Blaine Bettinger, The Limitations of Cousin Matching (one hour); Kathering Borges, lineage Societies and DNA (one hour); Kitty Cooper, What’s New at GEDmatch (one hour); Leah LaPerle Larkin, Science the Heck out of Your DNA (one hour); Carol Isbister Rolnick, Tips and Tricks from the Genetic Genealogy Trenches (one hour); Kathleen Fernandes, The Priest and the Choir Girl: Searching for Family in an Endogamous Population (one hour).

2016

  • February 2016 (completion), Craig Roberts Scott, Continuing Genealogical Studies: Introduction to World War I Research (online course), National Genealogical Society (nine modules).
  • March 2016, David Allen Lambert, Using New England Probate, Land, and Court Records (online course), New England Historic Genealogical Society (four and a half hours).
  • 21 and 28 May 2016, Blaine Bettinger, Third-Party Tools for Genetic Genealogists (online course), Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research (seven hours).
  • Unknown date May 2016, Jamboree DNA Day (six lectures), Southern California Genealogical Society (six hours).
  • 17-33 July 2016, CeCe Moore, Blaine Bettinger, and others, Advanced Genetic Genealogy (institute course), Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (forty hours).

2015

  • 29 June-3 July 2015, Debbie Parker Wayne, CeCe Moore, and Blaine Bettinger, Practical Genetic Genealogy (institute course), Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (forty hours).
  • 19-24 July 2015, Sharon Cook MacInnes and Michael D. Lacopo, Pennsylvania: Research in the Keystone State (institute course), Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (forty hours).
  • 7 and 14 November 2015, Blaine Bettinger, Genetic Genealogy for Professional Genealogists, Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research (six hours).

2014

  • 20-25 July 2014, Judy G. Russell, Richard G. Sayre, and Marian L. Smith, Law School for Genealogists (institute course), Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (forty hours).
  • 31 July 2014 (completion), DNA and the DAR: Using DNA as a Piece of the Evidence for a DAR Application (online course), Daughters of the American Revolution (five modules).
  • October-November 2014, Robert Charles Anderson, Puritan Pedigrees: the Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England (online course), New England Historic Genealogical Society (ten hours).
  • December 2014 (completion), Craig Roberts Scott, Continuing Genealogical Studies: Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestors (online course), National Genealogical Society (eight modules).

2013

  • 22-26 July 2013, D. Joshua Taylor, Richard G. Sayre, Craig Roberts Scott, and Paula Stuart-Warren, Bridging the 1780-1840 Gap: from New England to the Midwest (institute course), Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (forty hours).

2012

  • 8 May 2012, Melinda Lutz Byrne and Thomas W. Jones, Writing for Genealogical Journals and Editing Your Own and Others’ Genealogical Writing, BCG Education Fund Workshop (eight hours).
  • 19 May 2012 (completion), DAR Genealogical Education Program: Course 1—Introduction to Genealogy Research for DAR Applications (online course), Daughters of the American Revolution (seven modules).
  • 10-15 June 2012, Paul Milner, Tracing Your English Ancestors (institute course), Samford University Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (forty hours).
  • 1 July 2012 (completion), DAR Genealogical Education Program: Course 2–Applying Genealogy Research Techniques to DAR Applications (online course), Daughters of the American Revolution (nine modules).
  • 13 July 2012 (completion). DAR Genealogical Education Program: Course 3—Advanced Techniques for Resolving Problems with Lineage or Service on DAR Records, Daughters of the American Revolution (eleven modules).

2011

  • April 2011 (completion), ProGen 5, ProGen Study Program (eighteen-month program).
  • 10 May 2011, Barbara Vines Little, Working with Documents: From Discovery to What Comes Next and Sharon Tate Moody, In the Law Library: a Workshop on Legal Research for Genealogists, BCG Education Fund Workshop (eight hours).
  • 12-17 June 2011, Thomas W. Jones, Writing and Publishing for Genealogists (institute course), Samford University Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (forty hours).

2010

  • 27 April 2010, Pamela Boyer Sayre, Synchronized Research and Reporting, and Kip Sperry, Reading Early Handwriting, BCG Education Fund Workshop (eight hours).
  • 13-18 June 2010, Elizabeth Shown Mills, Advanced Methodology & Evidence Analysis (institute course), Samford University Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (forty hours).

2009

  • May 2009, Transcribing, Extracting, and Abstracting Genealogical Records (online course), National Genealogical Society (eight lessons).
  • Various dates, American Genealogy: Home Study Course, graded (correspondence course), National Genealogical Society (sixteen lessons).