Genealogy Course
This course provides practical skills for researching 1890–1925 transatlantic migrants using key historical records, focusing on ethical practices, source evaluation, and constructing documented family histories.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This short Genealogy Course equips you with hands-on skills to track 1890–1925 transatlantic migrants using passenger lists, censuses, military and vital records, church registers, and naturalization files. You will learn ethical research, critical evaluation of sources, online search strategies, and basic foreign-language skills while constructing reliable family trees, contextual migration stories, and clear, well-documented conclusions prepared for further study or publication.
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Develop skills
- Evidence evaluation: quickly assess record reliability, bias, and conflicting data.
- Record linkage: connect passenger, census, and vital records into one identity.
- Online archives search: master variants, wildcards, maps, and place-name tools.
- Family narrative building: turn fragmentary data into a coherent migrant storyline.
- Research workflow: log searches, cite sources, and write ethical, reproducible reports.
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