Genealogy Course
This course equips learners with essential genealogy skills focused on tracing transatlantic migrants from 1890–1925, emphasizing practical research methods and ethical documentation.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This short Genealogy Course provides practical skills to trace 1890–1925 transatlantic migrants using passenger lists, censuses, military and vital records, church registers, and naturalisation files. Learn ethical research, critical source evaluation, online search strategies, and basic foreign-language skills while building reliable family trees, contextual migration narratives, and clear, well-documented conclusions ready for further study or publication.
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Develop skills
- Evidence evaluation: judge record reliability, bias, and conflicting data quickly.
- 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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