Real-Time Closed Captioning is Here for Our Live Webinars!

At Family Tree Webinars, we love helping you discover your ancestors and build your family trees. We are also deeply committed to giving you the absolute best learning experience possible. That’s why we are thrilled to announce a major upgrade to our live broadcasts starting, well, last week!

You Asked, We Listened: Introducing Live Captioning

Many of our viewers have shared how much they rely on and appreciate closed-captioning. As many of you already know, full closed-captioning is standard for the videos in our On-Demand Webinar Library at www.familytreewebinars.com.

By the way—did you know that every single caption in our library is human-created? We don’t rely on automated AI translations. This means that the content is transcribed with incredible, human-vetted accuracy. (Thank you, MyHeritage, for funding this!)

While those high-quality library captions aren’t going anywhere, many of you have expressed a strong desire for that same clarity and accessibility while a presentation is happening live.

We heard you! Thanks to our brand-new GoToWebinar interface, live closed-captioning is officially available for all live webinars!

How It Works (and How to Customize It)

We’ve made accessing this new feature as simple as a single click. The next time you join one of our live genealogy webinars, look at the lower right-hand corner of your webinar window.

1. Turn It On: Simply click the brand-new Captions button.
2. Make It Yours: We know that one size doesn’t fit all. You can easily adjust both the caption text size and text color right inside the settings to match your personal viewing preferences perfectly.

Look for the new Captions button in the lower right-hand corner of your GoToWebinar viewer window to turn on text and customize your size and color settings.

Experience It For Yourself!

Whether you use captions to catch every exact historical date, follow along in a noisy room, or just prefer reading text as you listen, this new interface upgrade is built with you in mind.

We can’t wait for you to try it out during our next live broadcast. Head over to www.familytreewebinars.com right now to browse our upcoming schedule, register for our next live class, and see the new interface in action!