Tune in to Our One-Day Genealogy Seminar

We are very excited to announce that we will be live-streaming our first One-Day Genealogy Seminar globally on October 29, 2017 from 7 A.M. – 3 P.M EDT. The seminar will include presentations by experts in the fields of DNA, Jewish genealogy, general research techniques, and technology trends for genealogy.

The lectures will be broadcast from our headquarters and participants will be able to connect to the Legacy Family Tree Webinars online from anywhere in the world. We will be here to answer all of your questions during the lectures and we want you to become a part of the conversation.

To register for the broadcast, click here.

We will cover the following topics:

Google for Genealogy: Search Tricks to Tease Out Information – Jessica Taylor
How to Pass Your Ancestors’ Legacy to Your Grandchildren – Jessica Taylor
Introduction to the Use of Autosomal DNA Testing – Tim Janzen
Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques Used in Genetic Genealogy – Tim Janzen
Filling in the In-Between of the Jewish BMD – Rose Feldman
Jewish Family Research Challenges – Garri Regev
Discover Your Family History with MyHeritage’s Unique Technologies – Daniel Horowitz

Our speakers include the following genealogical experts:

Jessica Taylor

Jessica has served as President of Legacy Tree Genealogists since 2004 and has helped thousands of clients across the globe discover more about their heritage through professional genealogy research. With a bachelor’s degree in Family History – Genealogy, Spanish language proficiency, years of residence in China and Brazil, and a love of history and mystery, Jessica brings an upbeat global view to the genealogy business industry.

Tim Janzen

Tim is a family practice doctor at South Tabor Family Physicians in Portland, Oregon. He has had an interest in genealogical research for over 35 years and has particularly been involved in Mennonite genealogical research for the past 20 years. Tim has a strong interest in many areas of genetic genealogy, particularly in regards to phasing and autosomal DNA analysis. Tim helps lead the advanced genetic genealogy classes in Portland, Oregon for the local ISOGG group and has given many presentations at genealogy conferences about genetic genealogy.

Rose Feldman

Rose is known on Twitter as JewDataGenGirl and operates two Twitter accounts for IGRA – @Israelgenealogy and @IGRA_Hebrew, as well as IGRA’s Facebook page. Rose is in charge of developing new databases for Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA). She has lectured at eight IAJGS conferences starting in 2003, at various annual seminars of the Israel Genealogical Society, branch meetings of IGRA and IGS, and at the Israeli Association for Archives and Information workshop. Over the last two years, she lectured at the genealogy workshop of the Central Zionist Archives. She is one of the three coordinators of the Montefiore Censuses Project and has four Kehilalinks sites on JewishGen.

Garri Regev

Garri has lived in Israel since 1978 and was an elementary teacher for more than 20 years. Garri has been doing genealogical research for over 20 years. She has lectured in genealogy to many adult groups including Hadassah, Touro College, the Central Zionist Archives, EVA/MINERVA and IAJGS Conferences. Garri currently volunteers at the Israel Museum, at the CZA and the NLI Genealogy Center. She was President of the Israel Genealogical Society and of the Israel Genealogy Research Association. She was the Vice-Chair of the 2015 IAJGS Conference in Jerusalem and co-chair of the program. Currently, Garri is a Board Member of  LitvakSIG, the primary Internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish (Litvak) genealogy research and worldwide Special Interest Group.

Daniel Horowitz

Daniel is our very own Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage, providing key contributions in the areas of product development, customer support, and public affairs, liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers and media, while lecturing and attending conferences around the world. Daniel headed our Translation Department for 8 years, where he was instrumental in increasing our global support to 42 languages. Dedicated to genealogy for over 30 years, he was the teacher and the study guide editor for 15 years, of the family history project “Searching for My Roots” in Venezuela. Currently, he coordinates multiple crowdsourcing transcription projects and he holds board level positions with the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS), among others.

You can view and sign up for each lecture using the links below. You can also sign up for the entire series here.

Google for Genealogy: Search Tricks to Tease Out Information
How to Pass Your Ancestors’ Legacy to Your Grandchildren
Introduction to the Use of Autosomal DNA Testing
Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques Used in Genetic Genealogy
Filling in the In-Between of the Jewish BMD
Jewish Family Research Challenges
Discover Your Family History with MyHeritage’s Unique Technologies

We look forward to having you join us and become a part of our One-Day Genealogy Seminar! Come prepared with questions and ready for meaningful conversations that will help you advance your family history research.