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For genealogists the 17th century presents new challenges. This course will provide students with an understanding of the problems likely to be encountered in this period, record interpretation, analysis and planning and how to find documents.

Do you want to take working with your DNA matches to the next level? This course considers a host of DNA tools, techniques and strategies to help you get the most from your autosomal DNA matches, for those that have been working with DNA for a while.

This course is suitable for both amateur and professional genealogists. It provides advanced techniques and tools to ensure the best possible evidence for your family tree, and covers preparation of charts and genealogy research reports to the highest standard.

This course examines in detail records available for Twentieth Century conflict, the two world wars, the Boer War, the Korean War and other conflicts, including records for men who undertook National Service or were in the Home Guard.

Take one-name study skills to new levels with this advanced online course. The course includes the theory of one-name studies, a review of published work, introduces more complex interdisciplinary analysis and looks at publication of your work.

The end of year one assessment course is a practical module, assessing students' ability to pass from year one to year two of the Advanced Certificate programme.

The end of year one assessment module covers all the activities outside the set courses, assessing students' ability to pass from year one to year two of the Advanced Certificate programme.

This part of Year Two of the Advanced Certificate programme covers the activities associated with the final year project, outside the set courses. The Year Two assessment takes the form of a research project, which includes research in original documents in the period 1540-1837.

Apprenticeship, both as a private arrangement and under the Poor Laws, generated records which can provide invaluable information for tracing family history. This course will guide you through apprenticeship records and explain how to find them.

Writing your family history is the logical step after genealogical research. This course begins with decisions about what to write about, and what to include, and goes on to discovering historical context, social history and framing your story.

This course considers the name-rich family history records to consult when researching in the period before the national census records of name, age, birthplace and household address.

This genealogy methods and techniques course will build confidence in your family tree, with a walk through technique, research notes and useful research tools, such as research logs, timelines, source analysis and building a weight of evidence.

Chancery court records are some of the most underused records available to the family or local historian. This course provides students with an understanding of how to get the most from the records and an insight into secret lives and family feuds.

This course gives you the tools to understand the nature, jurisdictions and administrations under which different types of community existed in the past, and seeks to bring genealogy and local history closer together.

This course provides lots of practical activities, ideas, and guidance for sharing your genealogy knowledge and enthusiasm with your children and grandchildren (aimed at those between the ages of 7 and 11).

Decisions, decisions, family history research is full of them: which is why critical thinking skills are vital to any genealogist’s toolbox. In this course we use a range of analysis techniques to work towards a considered, thorough research narrative.

This online genetic genealogy course provides an introduction to DNA testing for family historians, making sense of the tests and tools available and describing the uses of genetic genealogy alongside traditional family history research.

Researching online has become so easy that we often forget to challenge whether we are getting the most from our searches. This course aims to improve your search skills, so that you can be more confident with your search results.

This online course helps to set ag labs in a broader context and suggests sources that will reveal more about the lives of those rural ancestors and the farms on which they worked. The focus is on British farming from 1700-1950.

Family historians often neglect the twentieth century but there is plenty to be discovered. This course considers sources and research methods to investigate more recent family members in the context of their community and their time.

This course explores the development of education during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Beginning with an exploration of the influences on childhood experience, we move onto education records from elementary school age through to university.

Family historians often encounter elusive family members who appear as if from nowhere or disappear without trace. This course introduces you to migration theories and provides strategies to help track down ancestors who moved within the British Isles.

Many documents indicate occupations in which our ancestors were employed. This course examines what is likely to be found in official and unofficial sources and how information can be used to provide further insights into the lives of our ancestors.

One-place studies are a fascinating blend of local and family history. This course enables you to begin or develop your one-place study, suggesting methods, sources and techniques that will enhance your understanding of a community and its people.

Part one of a two-part introduction to genealogy research in England and Wales. The course provides you with the tools to get started with confidence, focusing on the use of civil registration and census records to get things right from the start.

Second part of a two-part introduction to genealogy research in England and Wales, building on knowledge and skills from part one, using parish registers and probate records to further research into the family tree and developing problem solving skills.

This course, developed with the British Association for Local History, introduces local history and provides knowledge and skills to enable students to get started on a local history project from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.

The National Archives' website and catalogues describe more than 20 million documents, and can lead you to much information about your ancestors. This course covers how to find the most genealogically valuable records and how to search for individuals.

Our ancestors’ deaths are an integral part of our family’s history. This course sets your ancestors’ lives in context by looking at the illnesses, disabilities and diseases that brought about their deaths or had an effect on their well-being.

This course will take you step by step through the main documentary records available for house histories, and where to find them, and will use case studies to show how the records can be used together to discover the history of a house.

This course provides an overview of medieval genealogy, concentrating on the most accessible sources, giving contextual background to medieval society and the nature of medieval records; how they were put together, and their limitations.

A one-name study is an exciting journey into your surname's past. This introduction to one-name studies, written in association with the Guild of One-Name Studies, includes the history of surnames, what a one-name study is, and how to get started.

The manorial system was a framework for life in England and Wales for hundreds of years. This course examines the place of the manor in the legal and social system, the records created by the manor, and changes that occurred through the centuries.

Maps have the potential to transform the entire process of family history research. This course will introduce you to three novel, practical mapping methods to support sound critical thinking and allow your genealogy research to flourish.

The census records are one of the most fundamental sources for family history research. This course looks at how to get most from these records for England and Wales: search strategies, finding 'missing' ancestors and integration with complementary sources.

This course will help you trace ancestors who arrived in the United States from the British Isles, focusing on the period 1600 to 1830. It starts in the US with sources most likely to offer clues about origins and moves to records in the British Isles

This course looks at the history of nonconformity from 1600 to 1950, the records created, major denominations in the 18th and 19th centuries such as Methodists and Congregationalists, and the ways in which faith affected the lives of nonconformists.

Old handwriting or palaeography often presents difficulties for family historians. This course takes a practical approach to reading and transcribing old handwriting, focusing on Secretary Hand, a commonly used form during the 16th and 17th centuries.

As you research your family history, you collect information, charts, copies of records, notes, lists of sources searched, etc. This online course is designed to help you get organized, stay organized and be ready for more research online and on location.

Parish registers are fundamental to genealogy research before 1837 in England & Wales. This course gives you the confidence you need to find parish registers for your ancestors, understand the historical context and interpret your findings.

The course is designed to enable students to explore the practical steps of maintaining and developing their one-name study through a variety of media and to give some context to the various considerations they will need to explore.

Do you have ambition to become a professional genealogist? Have you already started taking on clients but are looking for guidance? This course guides you through the steps and professional skills that form the foundation for success.

This course describes the many state-created records and church records that can be used to research your Irish ancestry. It will provide an understanding of why records were created, where to find them online and how to use them effectively.

Our more advanced local history course focuses on the medieval and early modern periods. It develops research skills, brings in the context of physical environment to the study of a place and looks at analysis and sharing of research.

Tracing your female ancestors can be more challenging than researching the male lines. This course enables you to tell the stories of the women on your family tree, setting their lives against the backdrop of the social historical context of their times.

Have you found ancestors that originated in Continental Europe? This course introduces you to the broad context of Europe, offers advice for tracking European ancestors, expands your knowledge and assists in problem solving.

This course considers land research in Ireland from the 17th century to present day, and how to use this in your genealogy research. It includes various forms of land tenure, records of ownership and rental, valuation and conveyance of property, maps and more.

Many of our Scottish ancestors had to overcome great adversity - illness, death, bigamy, abandonment, accidents, eviction, victimhood, ethnic cleansing. This course will explore the many areas of hardship and how to access the relevant records.

Records of the poor are invaluable to family historians, naming both those who received assistance and those who paid rates and made the system work. This course explains how poor relief evolved, functioned and the records that were created as a result.

This course considers how Welsh research differs from English research from a social, linguistic, cultural and religious perspective and where to locate and how to get the most out of specific Welsh sources and repositories.

The course provides an overview of the history and diversity of Yorkshire, its people and its boundary changes, giving students an understanding of Yorkshire communities through time and where to locate records.

This course in Scottish family history progresses research back before 1850, discussing sources that fill the gap when the OPRs are uninformative or missing, e.g. records of parish and town administration, occupations, land transfer and taxation.

This course describes the major sites and record types that you will encounter in your Scottish family history research, and how to analyse the results. It will inspire you to pursue your interest in Scottish genealogy and take it to the next level.

There is so much more to the FamilySearch website than simple searches. Discover what you don't know in this online course, which will guide you through the website, offer tips about searching data, browsing and using the help sections.

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This course guides you through the main sources for locating people, how and where to access relevant records, how to prove straightforward family connections, outlines how to present your findings and gives advice on how best to approach potential beneficiaries.

Visiting an archive for the first time can be a daunting experience. In this course you will learn about the record-keeping framework in England and Wales, where to find national, local and specialist collections, and how to plan your research day in the archives to make the best use of your time.

Title deeds can be a real bonus for family and local historians, including information not found anywhere else. This course introduces the records in a practical way, enabling students to find, understand and interpret the different types of deeds.

Have you ever wondered whether your family is entitled to bear a coat of arms? This course will help you unlock the language of heraldry, including terminology, identifying a coat of arms, inheritance of arms and key resources.

This course looks at using printed material in your genealogical research. We will discuss biographical dictionaries, trade and street directories, record society transcripts and calendars, with a special focus on studying newspapers and magazines.

Did you know that social media can help with your research? This course will show you the benefits, whether as a way of keeping on top of the latest news, collaborating and communicating with others, or using social media for formal ways of sharing your research.

This course guides you through the best research methods, online and in archives, for researching criminal ancestors. With a special focus on court records other records, such as juries, witnesses, the police and prisons are also considered.

This course begins with the census records, but then moves beyond the census to Victorian life as a whole - in fashionable streets, back alleys and the countryside, in large houses, town houses, cottages and tenements, food, work, fun, life and death.

Wills are often overlooked as a source of family history information but they can reveal family relationships and provide insight into social status. This course takes you through the various probate documents available before and after 1858.

Most of us with British or Irish roots can find a soldier or sailor on their family tree. Military records are some of the most used by genealogists. This course guides you through sources at The National Archives, local archives and military museums.