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• 218758 Going Wayback: Using the Internet Archive in Your Research
   
• FDD2001 Serving as a Temple and Family History Consultant
• FDD2002 I Want to Take Family Names to the Temple, Where Do I Start?
• FDD2004 What’s New on FamilySearch?
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• LAB0996 Yes! You Can Read That Handwriting!
• LAB1422 Advanced Evernote for Genealogists
• LAB3824 Visual Phasing Workshop
• LAB5595 Google for Genealogists: Maps, Satellite, and Earth
• LAB7792 Your MyHeritage DNA Results and Verifying Matches
• LAB8072 DNA Match Triangulation
• LAB9802 AncestryDNA Lab: From DNA Evidence to Discoveries
   
• PH1426 Learn More about Some of Ancestry’s Extended Family
• PH2031 Power of Swedish Research Using ArkivDigital
• PH2318 Finding the Story of Your Immigrant Ancestors in Three Steps
• PH2347 Families Discovering Family History Together
• PH2348 The Power of Preserving Oral History
• PH2348 The Power of Preserving Oral History: Collecting Oral Histories Using the FamilySearch Memories App
• PH2964 Tracing British Ancestors through the Ages
• PH3547 Write Powerful Family History Stories
• PH3974 15 Photo Tips You’ll Love: Scanning, Identification, and Metadata (Maureen Taylor)
• PH3974 15 Photo Tips You’ll Love: Scanning, Identification, and Metadata (Jeremy Myntti)
• PH3974 15 Photo Tips You’ll Love: Scanning, Identification, and Metadata (Christopher Desmond)
• PH4510 A Deep Dive into Understanding Your DNA Results: Using Shared Matching and Genetic Networks
• PH4510 A Deep Dive into Your DNA Results
• PH4510 A Deep Dive into Understanding Your DNA Results: What Are the Odds?
• PH4698 Sharing Family History in Fun and Modern Ways
• PH5383 You Can Do DNA
• PH5439 Youth + Family History Stories = Magic: Sharing Family Stories Creates Confidence in Youth
• PH5473 New York Research Essentials
• PH6249 Discover, Gather, and Connect Your Family Together
• PH6548 Perspectives on Accreditation
• PH7232 Making the Leap—Becoming a Professional Genealogist
• PH7332 Vaya con Dios: The Hispanic Immigrant Story
• PH7928 Exploring Your Family History in New Ways with AncestryProGenealogists
• PH8714 Building a Family Tree
• PH9842 The Ultimate Guide to Tracing British Isles Roots
   
• M2302 Ministering with Temple and Family History
• M2303 Serving as a Temple and Family History Consultant
• M2304 Consultants: Nurturing the New and Tender in the Gospel
• M2305 I Want to Take Family Names to the Temple, Where Do I Start?
• M2308 What’s New on FamilySearch?
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• RT0001 What’s New on FamilySearch?
• RT0004 Connecting Families and Collecting Cousins: Keys to Successful Collaboration
• RT0006 Your Family History, Anytime, Anywhere: FamilySearch Mobile Apps
• RT0007 Finally! German Church Records and How to Use Them on FamilySearch
• RT0008 Come Together, Right Now: Navigating Complex U.K. Sources
• RT0010 Immigrant Origins: Making the Connection to Your Homeland
• RT0011 I Want to Discover My Family Story, Where Do I Start?
• RT0289 Discover Your Japanese Ancestors
• RT0512 Relative Race
   
• RT1025 The Role of Technology in Chinese Genealogy
• RT1049 Put Some Meat on Them Bones: Telling the Stories
• RT1080 500 Years at Your Fingertips: Belgium and Beyond
• RT1209 Finding Her: Our Female Ancestor
• RT1395 How to Digitally Restore Old Photos
• RT1414 Before You Test: DNA Basics You Need to Know
• RT1415 Use an Ancestor’s FAN Club to Get Past Brick Walls
• RT1433 A Grave Interest: Searching for Clues in the Cemetery
• RT1448 Outside the Frame: Telling the Full Story of Your Photographs
• RT1457 The Silent Language of the Stones: Reading Gravestones through Symbols and Carvings
• RT1467 Manipulating Features on Ancestry to Organize and Find Your Family
• RT1470 Making Memories of You
• RT1479 How to Magnify Hidden Stories in City Directories
• RT1483 YouTube and Genealogy: A Visual Library of Learning and Family Bonding
• RT1550 Utah: Connect with the Crossroads of the West
• RT1678 Perilous Assumptions: Revisiting Those First Finds
• RT1703 Best of the Best Tech Apps for Smashing Events
• RT1879 Wills, Thrills and Chills: Digging into Probate Records
• RT1928 Essential Considerations for DNA Evidence
   
• RT2012 A Step-by-Step Guide to MyHeritage DNA
• RT2340 Italian Genealogical Records and Strategies for Success
• RT2372 20 Hacks for Interviewing Almost Anyone and Getting a Good Story
• RT2430 The Strengthening Power of Family Stories on Children and Grandchildren
• RT2527 Managing Global Collaboration in a One-Name Study
• RT2528 Locating Pancho Villa: Mexico Research Methodology
• RT2548 Connecting the Geographical Dots: Utilizing Google Maps for Genealogical Research
• RT2567 Scandinavian Church Records
• RT2569 Online Scandinavian Records
• RT2578 Finding Foreign Roots Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki
• RT2591 When Details Disagree: 8 Ways to Resolve Conflicts
• RT2593 Land Records: 15 Steps to Move beyond the Index
• RT2596 You Need Both! Uniting DNA and Traditional Research
• RT2712 The Revolution in Multigenerational Memory Keeping and Digital Rights
• RT2909 How to Create a Website on WordPress.com
• RT2910 How Can a Website Help Tell Your Genealogy Story?
• RT2939 Getting the Most out of Billions of Records on MyHeritage SuperSearch
• RT2940 The Library of Congress: Pursuing Your Family History in the National Library
• RT2982 Ask the Experts with Kenyatta Berry, Angie Bush, and D. Joshua Taylor
   
• RT3177 Freedmen’s Bureau 2.0: A Better Way to Do Slave Research
• RT3180 Find Your Family in Church History
• RT3182 The Other Side of Jewish Genealogy: Sephardic Resources
• RT3200 Jewish Genealogy: Where to Start and What’s Available
• RT3201 DNA Successes in—and in Spite of—Endogamy
• RT3207 How to Start a Family History Blog and Why You Might Want To
• RT3208 Jumping off a Cliff: How to Pursue Your Dreams
• RT3458 You CAN Take It with You: Mobile Genealogy
• RT3459 Swedish-American Parishes—Great Genealogical Source!
• RT3472 Past Forward: Tech Tools and Strategies for Sharing Family History through a Consumable Genealogy Plan
• RT3474 Discovering Immigration Stories from Both Sides of the Pond
• RT3481 Writing and Publishing a Family History: 10 Steps
• RT3487 Slaves + Insurance = Rich Records
• RT3510 Tracing Your British Military Ancestors
• RT3516 Tracing Your Ancestors in Records of the British Poor
• RT3517 Tour of Online European Archives
• RT3543 Chinese Genealogy: An Introduction to Jiapu
• RT3548 Pledging Brotherhood: An Introduction to Fraternal, Benevolent and Secret Societies
• RT3560 Uncovering Family Stories with British and Irish Historic Newspapers
• RT3575 Me and My 1000+ DNA 4th Cousins
• RT3579 DNA Third-Party Tools You Actually Need
• RT3586 Connecting Your DNA Matches
• RT3620 Discovering Your Family in Digital Libraries
• RT3621 Personal Digital Archiving
• RT3631 Turning Genealogy Clues into Genealogy To Do’s
• RT3641 One Touch Genealogy Research: Handle a Record Just Once
• RT3647 Cleaning House: Decluttering Your Digital Family Tree
• RT3648 From Mountains to Megabytes: Organizing and Archiving Your Stuff
• RT3655 How to Write Your Life Story—in Five Pages or Less
• RT3663 Should You Take the Hint? Automatic Record Hinting on the Giant Genealogy Websites
• RT3671 Heirloom, Documentation or Junk: What to Keep or Toss
• RT3678 Audio Inspiration—Record, Transcribe, and Edit Audio Stories
• RT3685 Maximizing Your Use of GEDmatch
• RT3686 Deeper Analysis: Techniques for Successful Problem Solving
• RT3691 To Use Online Trees or Not: Organizing Your Data for Your Purposes
• RT3705 Unlocking Roman Catholic Records
• RT3708 Landlords and Tenants: Land and Estate Records for Irish Family History
• RT3711 Finding the Poor and Destitute Irish
• RT3726 Must-Use U.S. Records at Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage
• RT3757 Verifying Your Mayflower Lineage
• RT3759 “Looks like We’re Cousins”: Tips for DNA Collaboration
• RT3771 The Magic of German Church Records
• RT3791 Going Dutch: Finding Families in Online Records of the Netherlands
• RT3807 Blending Family History and Technology with the Art of Storytelling
• RT3842 Using Pinterest to Boost Your Genealogy Research
• RT3843 Online Resources for México
• RT3845 Getting Started with Research in Brazil
• RT3867 Hidden Treasures in the Library of Congress
• RT3884 What Next? Telling the Story with Newspapers and Obituaries
• RT3889 Keeping Up with the Latest Genealogy Buzz
• RT3918 Vital Records Are Always Correct … or Are They?
• RT3934 Untangling the Knots in Your Family Tree
• RT3949 Digital Legacy Planning for Genealogists
• RT3972 Journey into Your Past: African American Genealogy at the Library of Congress
• RT3993 How to Grow Your Tree on MyHeritage
   
• RT4056 Native, First Nations, Indian: Researching Indigenous Peoples
• RT4071 BYU Family History Technology Web Apps
• RT4076 How Not to Be a Victim of Hard Drive Failure
• RT4167 The Research Road Map: Your Path to Success
• RT4303 My Digital Preservation: How Do I Make This Work?
• RT4328 Where the Heck Is My German DNA Estimate?
• RT4428 Brick Wall Busters for Scottish Genealogy Research
• RT4433 Facebook and Twitter for Genealogy
• RT4448 Organize Your Research with Google Drive
• RT4501 Do You Speak BRCA?
• RT4503 Leading with Science at 23andMe
• RT4661 Using Spreadsheets to Track and Organize Your Research
• RT4662 Denmark Estate Records—Not Just Accounts and Ledgers
• RT4672 From Namur to Namur: Belgian Immigration to the USA in the 19th Century
• RT4687 My Ancestors Were from Germany, and I Don’t Speak German
• RT4709 Discovering Slave Owners in the Family Tree
• RT4713 The FamilySearch Catalog: A Researcher’s Best Friend
• RT4719 Research Logs: A Key to Organized Genealogy
• RT4758 Understanding the Ethnic Ancestry in Your DNA Test
• RT4831 Googling Gertrude—Using Google Earth in Genealogy
   
• RT5027 Genealogical Research System of the DAR
• RT5028 Kinship Information in Bounty Land Records
• RT5040 Chromosome Mapping for Absolute Beginners
• RT5141 Five Things All Family Historians Should Do before They Die
• RT5142 Doing the History Eliminates the Mystery
• RT5219 Microblogging: Share Your Family History Online without a Blog
• RT5308 Shoot like a Pro: How to Record Quality Videos Using Your Mobile Device
• RT5309 Preserving Your Online Digital Legacy: What to Do When Your Legacy is Facebook and Twitter
• RT5317 Video Magic: Creating Brilliant Videos Quickly and Easily
• RT5325 The Genealogist’s Google Search Methodology
• RT5336 Strengthening LDS Family Organizations through DNA
• RT5361 Behind the Metadata Curtain: Which Common Platforms Read, Create and Release Photo Tags?
• RT5362 Mapping Your Family History
• RT5365 Social Media Tools for Your Genealogy Business
• RT5373 Conducting Research Using Roman Catholic Church Records
• RT5385 German Family History: Where Do I Begin?
• RT5392 Colonial New England Research and Resources from Archives to the Internet
• RT5411 Life’s Second Certainty—Early United States Tax Records
• RT5415 Basic Training: U.S. Military Records
• RT5418 Settling the West: The United States Territorial Papers
• RT5424 Surname Studies: Follow That Surname!
• RT5429 Save the Last Dance for Me: Discovering the Social Lives of Our Ancestors
• RT5434 Using Catholic Church Records in Latin America
• RT5542 Bullet Journaling for Genealogists
• RT5737 Descendancy Research: Another Pathway to Genealogy
• RT5739 Secret Societies: Finding Your Ancestors in Fraternal Organizations
• RT5829 Navigating the General Land Office Records
   
• RT6239 Slave Traders, Speculators and the Domestic Slave Trade
• RT6692 DNA Testing and Those with Unknown Biological Family
• RT6767 Not All Your Family Died in the Holocaust
• RT6768 Research Latin America Genealogical Resources on the Internet
   
• RT7109 Accessing the Library of Congress Collection
• RT7283 Why Should I Look at Revolutionary War Pension Records?
• RT7483 Family History in the 21st Century
• RT7720 “Jumping the Broom,” Oil, Inheritance and African American Marriage in the South
• RT7777 Who Are You? A Journey Home
• RT7928 Beyond Pie Charts: Using Y and Mitochondrial DNA Testing to Solve Genealogical Puzzles
   
• RT8001 Ancestry Tools for Genetic Genealogy: A Comprehensive Overview
• RT8002 Your DNA Story Has More Chapters Than You Think
• RT8004 Your Family Tree Your Way: An Introduction to New Ancestry Tools
• RT8005 Mining Probates on Ancestry for Family History Gold
• RT8007 How Historical Documents Become Discoveries at Ancestry
• RT8008 Newspapers.com: Revealing Solutions to Family History Puzzles
• RT8009 Fold3 Search Update: Do You Know What You Are Missing?
• RT8010 A Dozen Ways to Jumpstart Your Research
• RT8011 Finding Stories: Turning Names and Dates into an Impactful Family History
• RT8012 Writing Fascinating Family History One Story at a Time
• RT8013 It’s Called FAMILY History: Top Tips for Collaborating with Living Family Members
• RT8014 What You Don’t Know about Ancestry
• RT8015 Using Social Media to Accelerate Family History
• RT8016 Using Little Details to Unlock Big Finds (and Avoid Big Errors)
• RT8017 Cluster, Huddle or Flock: Strategies for Research Problems
• RT8423 Adding Shared Matches and Genetic Networks to Your Research
• RT8707 Examining Your DNA Matches with DNA Painter
• RT8832 Help Your Norwegian Ancestors Come to Life Using Little-Used Sources
• RT8983 Access and Preservation in Action: The Archives of Michigan and Seeking Michigan
• RT8983 Access and Preservation: A Panel Discussion
• RT8983 Challenges and Opportunities Archives Face
• RT8983 Linking the U.S. Censuses to Create a Record-Based Tree
   
• RT9150 Finding Substitutes for Vital Records
• RT9152 Quaker Migration into America
• RT9169 A Rare and Valuable Gem: PERSI
• RT9256 Burned Official Military Personnel Files
• RT9263 Creative Ways to Honor Heritage and Celebrate Family
• RT9388 The Secret Life of Ernest Oldham: Researching and Writing Your Family History
• RT9410 Chromosome Mapping Tips and Techniques
• RT9521 Hear Them Sing! Social History in Your Family Narrative
• RT9522 The Problem with Porters: Men of the Same Name
• RT9523 Digging Deeper: Voter Registrations
• RT9549 Female Freemasons? Accessing the Records of Benevolent Societies
• RT9597 Finding 17th-Century English Ancestors
• RT9605 Underused English Records—Justices of the Peace Quarter and Petty Sessions
• RT9609 Tracing English Women Ancestors
• RT9698 Tracing Female Ancestors in WWI Military and Non-combatant Records
• RT9753 Beyond the Mists of Time: Sources for British Medieval and Early Modern Genealogy
• RT9806 Aliens in the Army: Tracking Down WWI Naturalization and Pre-immigration Information