For the fifth consecutive year, the National Archives is offering its free multi-week Genealogy Series. I’m a day late to be telling you about the first session, but you can watch the video! In 2021, the National Archives transformed its annual one-day virtual Genealogy Fair into a multi-week Genealogy Series. The first session, Revealing Ties to Espionage in the Office of Strategic Services Records, was held yesterday. You can watch it here.
For the rest of the series, there will be weekly lectures on May 21, June 3, June 11 and June 17, from 1 to 2 pm eastern. No registration is required; you can watch live and ask questions of the presenter at the NARA YouTube channel. (You can also watch later without the opportunity to ask questions.) This year’s series doesn’t have a central theme; instead it provides a variety of interesting talks.
Visit the NARA website to see the program and details about each talk, including a preview of the slides for the upcoming talks in the series. Links to each talk will be available on the day of the event (and remain available after). According to the website, “You are invited to attend, participate, and ask questions during our sessions’ YouTube video premieres. Presentations are pre-recorded videos broadcast on the U.S. National Archives’ YouTube channel. Throughout the broadcast, you will be able to ask questions, and the presenter will respond in real time. After the initial showing, the video and handouts will remain available on this web page and YouTube.”
What’s also great is that NARA provides a Genealogy Series and Fairs Past page with links to all the sessions for the four prior Genealogy Series as well as the one-day virtual Genealogy Fairs they held from 2013 to 2019. That is a lot of free learning!
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