Genealogy Course
This course teaches practical genealogy skills for tracing 1890–1925 transatlantic migrants using key records and tools to build documented family histories.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This short Genealogy Course equips you with hands-on skills to track down 1890–1925 transatlantic migrants using passenger lists, censuses, military and vital records, church registers, and naturalization files. You will learn ethical research practices, critical evaluation of sources, effective online search methods, and basic foreign-language skills while constructing solid family trees, migration stories with context, and clear, well-documented findings prepared for deeper study or sharing.
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Develop skills
- Evidence evaluation: quickly assess the reliability of records, spot biases, and handle conflicting information.
- Record linkage: join passenger, census, and vital records to form a single identity.
- Online archives search: become expert in using variants, wildcards, maps, and place-name tools.
- Family narrative building: transform scattered data into a cohesive story of migration.
- Research workflow: keep logs of searches, cite sources properly, and produce ethical, repeatable reports.
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