Learn: Read, Listen
Webinars, Podcasts, Blogs

Current Webinars: 
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A Calendar of Genealogical Events held in New Jersey can be found at http://eogn.wikidot.com/eogn-calendar:new-jersey

On-Line Courses/Webinars

• Ancestry Academy: a new educational website that offers exclusive, high-quality video courses taught by genealogy and family history experts. Ancestry Academy courses cover a wide range of relevant family history topics and offer something for genealogists of all levels. 

• Roots Television: A wide variety of great genealogy shows you can watch for free online.
• Legacy Family Tree Webinars: Many ongoing and archived webinars for all levels.
• JewishGenLearning Center: A list of online interactive courses in Jewish genealogy. On the bottom are several free videos.
• Family Search Courses
• Southern California Genealogy Society Free Webinars: Twice-monthly webcasts with knowledgeable genealogists.
• Family Tree Magazine Webinars (upcoming and archived): Get live genealogy hints and help from genealogy experts in these webinars.
• Family Tree University: Interactive online courses provide you with how-to guidance to overcome your genealogical challenges and improve your research skills.
• Midwest Genealogy Center: Free video classes on a variety of subjects. Handout links are also available.
• Five Minute Finds: A series of learning videos by ancestry.
• The Ancestor Hunt: Lessons for doing genealogy, including searching newspapers.
• “Translating Russian Documents for the Non-Russian Speaker”: A recording of Dr. Alan Levin’s recent JewishGen Talk with slides at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ritDBsQloHc1ECQJDMAkydy0ERwvCC_x/view​

DNA links

• The Genetic Genealogist by Blaine Bettinger: https://thegeneticgenealogist.com
• Kitty Cooper’s Blog: http://blog.kittycooper.com
• Krista Cowan at Ancestry.com: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsc0AQkAh_2cQmxqwD6VWRw
• DNAeXplained by Roberta Estes:  https://dna-explained.com
• Roots and Recombinant DNA by TL Dixon:    http://www.rootsandrecombinantdna.com
• International Society for Genetic Genealogy: https://isogg.org
• Genetic Relationships including charts
• DNA Testing Guide: Evaluation of companies. https://www.dnatestingguides.com/
• DNA Painter: An excellent on line tool for DNA mapping.

Blogs

• Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog
  
• Family Tree Magazine Blog
• Geneabloggers
•  Random Samplings: Official blog of the U.S. Census Bureau
• Jewishgen Blogspot

Miscellaneous

• National Archives at New York City: The archives is a research facility AND runs workshops. Click here to find schedules.
• USCIS home page for genealogists
• USCIS Genealogy Notebook: This tool is a place for the USCIS Genealogy Program to share answers to commonly asked Genealogy research and record questions, research tips, and provide updates
• Polish resources: The Boston JGS lists many PDF's published by Fay and Julian Bussgang regarding Polish resources.
• Interactive Immigration Map: A NY Times interactive map of the US showing patterns of immigration.
• The Family Curator: "I couldn’t find a guidebook for preserving family keepsakes, so I adapted professional archival techniques for the family situation and created The Family Curator to share what I learned about scanning, organizing, and preserving family treasures. "
• Jewishgen Discussion Groups
• Citation Machine: Need the proper format for your resource citation? Check this site.
• Genealogy Search Help for searching on Google. https://www.genealogy-search-help.com/
• Bet Hatfusot: C U Robot: Visitors who take the robot tour enjoy a private guided tour with a guide who has been specially trained to use this new technology. During the tour, visitors can see the guide and the exhibitions via 3 cameras that allow a 360-degree view of the Museum. Visitors can also fully control the robot’s movements, and communicate directly with their guide, as if they were physically in the Museum.
• Home Advisor:www.homeadvisor.com/r/a-guide-to-researching-the-history-of-a-house/ Info for research on a former residence.

Articles/Information

• Series of Articles "Tips on Archiving Family History": Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
• Beginners article on Genealogy
• Family Tree’s 101 Best WebsitesFamily Tree’s 101 Best Websites 2016​
• Article about DNA:  on January 30, Anatole Klyosov posted an article, in Russian, entitled “Thoughts About Jewish DNA Genealogy.” Here is the translation.
• Preserving Family Treasures: This website, from the Library of Congress, provides simple instructions, as well as links to more comprehensive information for “Preparing, Protecting, Preserving” many types of family treasures.
• INS/USCIS Historical Essays : Read the truth about name changes.
• Ellis Island Article: The myth of name changes.
• Ellis Island: All about Ellis Island including many links to other sites.
• List of First Name Abbreviations: In many historic documents, first names were abbreviated.Knowledge of first name abbreviations can be very helpful in tracking down ancestors.
• Family Relationship Chart: View on line or download for your references.
• Behind the Name: Jewis Names: Find the meaning of Jewish names.
• Reading Hebrew Matzevot: A PDF Document
• Reading Hebrew Tombstones: A Jewishgen info file
• Hebrew Tombstones: Another Jewishgen info file
• Preserving family Memories, Letters, Trinketswww.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/smarter-living/how-to-preserve-your-family-memories-letters-and-trinkets.html
• Geneaolgy Explained: A very good web site for beginners.
• The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

Newspapers/Periodicals/Ezines

• GenealogyInTime Magazine: We are also much more than just an online magazine. We are a genealogy platform with tools and resources to help people find their ancestors.
• Free New York Times Archived Articles
• Nu? What's New - Searchable Index of Archived Editions
  
• Library of Congress World War I Newspaper clippings 1914-1926
  

TV/Youtube/Video

• JGS of Long Isalnd Youtube channel.
• Finding Your Roots: Watch streaming video of past shows of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s shows.
• Rootstech.org: The videos for the conference.
• Research Genealogical Resources in Israel from your Couch
• YIVO  Institute Youtube Channel: A variety of videoes including learning.
• NJ Family History Institute Saved Webinars
  

Podcasts

• Dear Myrtle's Podcast: A podcast is a file (audio and/or video), or a related collection of such files, which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.
  
• Polish Genealogy Podcast: Learn how to get the podcast which is not specifically Jewish.