Thursday, December 6, 2018

FamilyTreeWebinars.com Adds Captioning to Hundreds of Genealogy and DNA Education Classes

I received this information from Legacy Family Tree and Family Tree Webinars today:

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars, the leading genealogy and DNA webinar platform, announced today the addition of closed captioning to its service. Implemented as a full human-curated transcription via synced subtitles, closed captioning is now available as an option for all live and members-only webinar recordings released since May 1, 2018. In addition, the most popular 50 webinars on the platform and all MyHeritage-specific webinars have been captioned. Legacy will add captioning to all new webinars going forward.

 “We are committed to providing the best genealogy and DNA education for all, including people who are hard of hearing,” said Geoff Rasmussen, founder and host of Legacy Family Tree Webinars. “Captioning is an excellent way to make online education more accessible, and is also a benefit to non-native English speakers who struggle with spoken English but have an easier time with written English”.

 Legacy has exciting plans for 2019, which include the hosting of webinars in non-English languages as well as the translation of English captions to select foreign languages.

 “When we acquired Legacy last year, we promised to invest resources to improve the webinar platform and increase its reach, while maintaining its high quality and unique character”, said Gilad Japhet, founder and CEO of MyHeritage. “The addition of closed captioning makes good on this promise and, with translated captioning coming up soon, will help make the webinars accessible to millions of people in Europe and other countries, true to MyHeritage’s goal of making genealogy and DNA testing available to huge consumer audiences worldwide”.

 To access closed captioning, webinar viewers may click on the blue CC icon in the lower right-hand side of the video interface. A list of the 207 webinars already available with captioning is available here (or see list below).

 Access to captions requires the viewer to log in with their annual or monthly webinar membership. Information about subscribing is found here. Captioning is also available for free for select free webinars, such as all 24 lectures from MyHeritage’s recent LIVE 2018 conference which took place in Oslo, Norway.

 In addition to all webinars from May 1, 2018 onwards, the following popular webinars are also now available with closed captioning:

 Beginners
Board for Certification of Genealogists
DNA
FamilySearch
Google
Legacy Family Tree
Methodology
Misc
MyHeritage
Organization
Photos / Digital Images
Places
Records
Software
Technology
Watch Geoff Live
Writing and Publishing

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 NOTE:  I am a subscriber to Family Tree Webinars and use the system often.  This does not affect the coverage of their products.

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Steven Monrad said...

A review of Legacy 9 states that Legacy still does not support same-sex marriages.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 9:12:00 PM PDT

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