UK Family History Research for the Beginner Genealogist
A step-by-step beginner’s course for tracing your UK ancestry and genealogy online, using professional family history re
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What You Will Learn!
- How to trace their English and/or Welsh ancestry back several generations to the early 19th century
- How to use the online genealogical search websites in a professional way
- How to use old photographs to enrich your family history research
- How to Create a basic family tree chart using pen and paper or software
- How to search for and read birth, marriage and death certificates
- How to search and read the UK census records
- How to search and read the UK parish registers
- How to avoid the common errors of amateur genealogists
- Students will gain a deeper understanding of the most commonly used family history resources
Description
Have you ever wondered how to start genealogy research? This course will take you, step by step, through the most important processes of researching your family history. After learning how to construct your own family history charts, and find family photographs and other ancestral documents, you will learn how to use the most important sources used in searching for ancestry: civil registration, census records and parish registers. The course covers mainly genealogy in England and Wales - but there will also be useful information about Scottish and Irish genealogy.
Who Should Attend!
- People who want to start tracing ancestry in the UK
- People who have done some UK genealogy, but have got stuck and would like to start from scratch
- Amateur genealogists who want to find out more about the basic research sources
- Amateur genealogists who have hit a brick wall and want to check if they've missed something
- People who would like to find out more about Civil Registration and certificates
- People who would like to find out more about the UK Census records
- People who would like to find out more about researching parish registers in the UK
- Genealogists in US, Australia, and elsewhere, who have found they have UK ancestors they would like to trace
- Amateur genealogists would like a deeper understanding of some of the basic UK resources
