All Course Listings

This page lists all of our scheduled courses and Anytime Courses which run at a time that suits you.
17th Century Sources (382)
Start Date: 26 Oct 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Assessed Cost: £70.00
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Advanced Methods and Reports (482)
Start Date: 2023
Unassessed Cost: £70.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £88.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Advanced Military Research - 20th Century Conflict (325)
Start Date: 2023
Cost: £41.00
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Advanced One-Name Studies (902)
Start Date: 01 Nov 2022
Unassessed Cost: £58.00 Assessed Cost: £76.00
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Apprenticeship Records (281)
Start Date: 2023
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £70.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? Writing and Telling Your Family History (216)
Start Date: 03 Oct 2022
Unassessed Cost: £58.00 Assessed Cost: £76.00
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Before the Modern Census - Name-rich sources from 1690 to 1837 (381)
Start Date: 26 Jul 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Assessed Cost: £70.00
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Building on a Solid Foundation - Genealogy methods and techniques (204)
Start Date: 12 Sep 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Assessed Cost: £70.00
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Church and Community, Selected records 1540 - 1800 (485)
Start Date: 2023
Unassessed Cost: £70.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £88.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Deeds and Disputes (502)
Start Date: 2023
Unassessed Cost: £74.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £92.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Demystifying DNA for Family Historians (250)

Discovering more about your Agricultural Labouring Ancestors (242)
Start Date: 2023
Cost: £58.00
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Discovering Your British Family and Local Community in the early 20th Century (210)

Employment Records (380)
Start Date: 16 Jun 2022
Unassessed Cost: £58.00 Assessed Cost: £76.00
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First Steps to a One-Place Study (241)

In Sickness and in Death - researching the ill-health and death of your ancestors (240)

Introduction to Medieval Genealogy (501)
Start Date: 2023
Unassessed Cost: £71.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £89.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Introduction to One-Name Studies (901)

Local History - Uncovering the Places and Communities connected to your Ancestors (342)
Start Date: 2022
Cost: £52.00
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Manorial Records for Family and Local Historians (401)
Start Date: 2022
Unassessed Cost: £73.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £91.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Mapping Strategies for Family Historians (343)
Start Date: 2022
Cost: £52
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Migration in the British Isles (or Where did my Ancestor come from?) (314)
Start Date: 2022
Cost: £41.00
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Nonconformity - Its Records and History 1600 - 1950 (280)
Start Date: 27 Oct 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Assessed Cost: £70.00
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Old Handwriting for Family Historians (417)
Start Date: 2022
Cost: £70.00
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Organizing Your Genealogy (202)

Practicalities of a One Name Study (903)

Professional Genealogist - Become one, become a better one (941)

Progressing Your Irish Research Online (260)

Recording the Poor - From Parish to Workhouse and beyond (203)
Start Date: 01 Aug 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Assessed Cost: £70.00
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Researching Ancestors in Continental Europe (750)

Researching in Archives for Advanced Genealogists (481)
Start Date: 2022
Unassessed Cost: £70.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £88.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Researching Online for Advanced Genealogists (480)
Start Date: 2023
Unassessed Cost: £70.00 Start Date Available Soon Assessed Cost: £88.00 Start Date Available Soon
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Researching Your Welsh Ancestors (119)

Scotland 1750-1850 - Beyond the Old Parish Registers (302)

Scottish Research Online (102)

So You Think You Know FamilySearch - A Guided Tour (206)

The National Archives Website and Catalogue - Finding People (207)
Start Date: 2022
Cost: £41.00
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Unlocking Heraldry for Family Historians (341)
Start Date: 2022
Cost: £52.00
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Using Printed Sources in Family History (253)
Start Date: 2024
Cost: £41.00
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Victorian and Edwardian Education and Childhood 1820 to 1920 (251)

Victorian Crime and Punishment - Courts, police and prisons (308)
Start Date: 06 Jun 2022
Unassessed Cost: £58.00 Course Full Assessed Cost: £76.00 Course Full
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Victorian Families - Your Ancestors in the Census (208)

Wills and Administrations; the riches of probate records (205)
Start Date: 05 Sep 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Assessed Cost: £70.00
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Your Military Ancestors (224)
Start Date: 06 Jun 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Course Full Assessed Cost: £70.00 Course Full
Start Date: 31 Oct 2022
Unassessed Cost: £52.00 Assessed Cost: £70.00
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Anytime Courses
Beginners Guide to Creating and Researching Your Family Tree Part One (020)
This is part one of a two-course introduction to genealogy research in England and Wales. It is designed for anyone who wants to get things right from the start. The course provides you with the tools and know-how to confidently find ancestors and record results in commonly used records.
The course focuses on genealogical knowledge, methodology and technological know-how, a combination which makes family history research easy and enjoyable. It is not just about building a tree, it aims to inspire, guide and equip you to enter the world of genealogy with confidence and a clear direction. The course is suitable for those with English and Welsh ancestry.
The course introduces free websites and resources and no website subscriptions are necessary, although students may find they wish to sign up to a family history website to further progress their tree by the end of the course.
- * Good Preparation, What Do You Already Know?
- * Basic Records and Websites to get you Started
- * Using the Census Online
- * Birth and Baptism Records
- * Marriage Records
Relevant Countries: England and Wales
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5 lessons (around 5 weeks of study)
Beginners Guide to Creating and Researching Your Family Tree Part Two (021)
This course is part two of a two-course introduction to genealogy research in England and Wales. The course assumes that students have already worked their way through Part One (020).
You will build on the knowledge you have already gained in part one by further practice using tools, common websites and records such as civil registration and the census. In addition, you will be introduced to probate records and be given information to help you make a decision about purchasing any genealogy software. The course ends with a helpful and vital section on solving research problems. The course is suitable for those with English and Welsh ancestry.- * Death and Burial Records
- * Probate Records
- * Introduction to Genealogy Software
- * Problem Solving
Relevant Countries: England & Wales
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4 lessons (around 4 weeks of study)
Climbing Trees - How to inspire children with family history (110)
This course is written by a primary school teacher with a love of family history. It provides loads of practical activities, ideas, and guidance for passing along your knowledge and enthusiasm to children or grandchildren between the ages of 7 and 11.
Many children enjoy history at school and you can foster or awaken interest by adding a personal, family perspective. The lessons look at ways to make your family stories interesting and relevant, not only with respect to the context of past times but with some help from favourite fictional stories. The course looks at a wide range of material designed to excite children about their history and enable you, with them, to produce creative and colourful projects to treasure. The practical nature of the 'make and do' project suggestions will get children involved, designing, doing and problem solving. The course explores and evaluates the wealth of on-line material about people in the past aimed at children, as well as ways to digitally present and share your children's projects in a simple and easy way. The course also shows you how working with your children on a family history project can help them with their learning skills in school. During the course you consider how different children learn in different ways and each activity will show which particular skills are being used so you can cater your activities to the interests of your children. All activities include a simple list of resources needed before you embark on a project.
The course assumes that you have a basic grasp of genealogy websites and research, that you have gone some way to constructing your own tree, and ideally also have some family photographs to share.
- * Taking root, understanding the basics
- * Climbing Trees at Home - Storytelling and online research
- * Climbing Trees Further Afield: Make family history visits interesting
- * Creating Branches: Using technology to create present and share your child's learning
THIS COURSE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING REVIEW AND UPDATE
STUDENTS SAID "I very much appreciated the guidance and inspiration for creating slideshows and the helpful direction throughout the course to so many useful websites for children."
Relevant Countries: England
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4 lessons (around 4 weeks of study)
All About Parish Registers (115)
Parish registers, the records of baptisms, marriages and burials maintained by the Church of England, are the most important source for genealogists before civil registration began in 1837. Parish registers start as early as 1538 and continue in use today. They remain an important resource even after the start of civil registration because of the many missing civil records during the years from 1837 to 1874. The registers reveal most to those genealogists who know the most about them, their background and historical context, the legislation that affected the content, and the layout of the registers.
This course provides you with that knowledge. In the first lesson you will learn about the history of parish registers and the many formats in which they appear. More details on the specifics for baptism, marriage and burials, including how to find social status and occupational clues within the registers follows in the other two lessons using case studies. A separate handy section on old handwriting and Latin comes with Lesson Two. In the final lesson you will also learn how to bring everything together to construct a family tree.
STUDENTS SAID "The course was packed full of useful hints and tips, I enjoyed the exercises."
- * The history of parish registers
- * More about marriage
- * Baptism and burial at the Parish church
- * Appendix on Latin and Handwriting
Relevant Countries: England & Wales
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3 lessons (around 3 weeks of study)
My British Isles Origins - When and How do I Cross the Pond? (931)
This 4 week course concentrates on the period from 1600 to 1830. It begins with advice on identifying your immigrant ancestor in America, supported with historical information on population movements before and after the Revolution. Sources most likely to offer clues about origins are explained and presented with research strategies.
The focus changes in the second lesson to your ancestors origins in the British Isles. The topics covered include: major migrations out; when, where from, where to; sources for searching within particular migrant groups; and, advice on searching for people who do not fit any patterns. There is also advice on how to make the best use of surname information and survey techniques.
Lessons 3 and 4 look at records in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, discussed according to time period. The emphasis is on using Web resources and on helping you develop the skills to initiate searches after the course. You will try out online indexes, sites that lead you to sources, and finding aids that help you locate sources that may or may not be online. The course shows you how to identify and select the best records to search based on your problem, minimum information required for a search, and ease of access.
At the end of the course you will understand the challenges to be faced in "crossing the pond" and have had some practical experience such as locating places, searching online records and catalogues, and transcribing an early will.
- * Preparation is Essential
- * Where and How do I Venture into British and Irish Records?
- * Sources, Finding Aids and Tactics 1713 - 1830
- * Seventeenth Century Challenges are Good for You
THIS COURSE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING REVIEW AND UPDATE
STUDENTS SAID: This course provided me with new tactics to try, a better way to approach 17th century genealogy, great course notes and bibliography. Most importantly, it made me aware of my ignorance about British history and geography!
Relevant Countries: USA, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland
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4 lessons (around 4 weeks of study)
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