Webinars & Video

Daniel Horowitz has developed a new DNA Matching service that enables those who have been tested through different services to enjoy MyHeritage’s exceptional matching capabilities for their family history research. Join...

Join Philip Sutton - a Librarian in the Paul and Irma Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History, and Genealogy - as he outlines the various ways you can use the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman...

This webinar will give a short background on the New York canal system and discussion of the different occupations that our ancestors might have had. It will also cover Canal Town folks' associations, where the...

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society President D. Joshua Taylor updates members and the community on initiatives underway at the NYG&B and provide a preview of upcoming projects and programs.

A jointly sponsored program brought to you by the NYPL and the NYG&B by speaker Naomi Joshi

Special guest Kenyatta Berry (Genealogy Roadshow, PBS) discusses her family's move from Virginia to the Rochester, New York area

Two librarians from the New York State Library in Albany, New York, join us for a webinar on searching for genealogical information in the New York State Library and New York State Archives Catalog. Download the PDF...

Robert Raymond is a genealogical technologist, a FamilySearch deputy CGO, a director of NGS, and the author of an award winning genealogy blog. The search button misses a billion+ records on FamilySearch that haven’t...

Confused by multiple indexes for New York City vital records? This webinar will explain the origins of the indexes to vital records at the New York City Municipal Archives, cover which indexes contain what years and...

For good or for bad, Microsoft Word is an indispensable tool. But most of us learned how to use it—only by having to use it. Michelle D. Novak is a brand designer who regularly wrestles with the ins and outs of Word—on...