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Anytime Courses

Anytime courses have no formal start date and no tutor. You simply buy your course and can start immediately, working at your own pace.

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Tutor-led Courses

Tutor-Led courses are our most popular offering. Courses last 3-6 weeks, have a set start date, a dedicated tutor and weekly tutorials.

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Certificate Courses

We have two assessed certificate programmes, developed with the Society of Genealogists, that lead to a professionally recognised qualification.

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Popular Anytime Courses

Foundations of Family History Part 1: Getting Started

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.
  • Join anytime
  • Length: 5 lessons
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Foundations of Family History Part 2: Next Steps

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.
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  • Length: 4 lessons
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Upcoming Courses

Getting Started with Local History

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.
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Scotland 1750-1850 - Beyond the Old Parish Registers

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.
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Nonconformity - Its Records and History 1600 - 1950

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.
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Church and Community, Selected records 1540 - 1800

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.
  • Tutor: Emma Jolly
  • Start: 15 Apr 2024
  • Length: 4 weeks
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