Course: Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree

Choose the study group tab at the top of any step to access your study group for this course. Your study group is a place to get to know your …

Tahitia is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Strathclyde where she is the Course Leader on the MSc in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies by Distance Learning. She …

On this course, learners will have the opportunity to ask the educators particular questions through live events called Live Streams. These events also allow the educator to recap the previous …

On this course, learners will have the opportunity to ask the educators particular questions through live events called Live Streams. These events also allow the educator to recap the previous …

This Google Hangout has now taken place. You can watch the recording on YouTube. Tahitia’s slides can be found here. This hangout is optional and may be of interest to …

This final week of the course is an introduction to recording and organising research and the sources used. Genealogists need to provide evidence that the statements and assertions they make …

Genetic genealogy is certainly the fastest developing area of genealogy and family history and one of the most challenging to understand and apply in practice. Although the foundations of the …

In this video we take a look at aspects of autosomal, mitochondrial and Y-DNA testing and explore their practical applications for genealogists. Selected slides from the video are available in …

Tahitia is attending the RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City this week and will be posting her insights and comments here… If you are interested in seeing the handouts from …

The most popular type of DNA test for genealogy is now the autosomal test. The attraction of an atDNA test is that it can be taken by males and females, …

Sources that are created by individuals for their own personal use or reasons could be considered to be less reliable overall; consider diaries with exaggerated accounts of valour in battle …

In this video Graham Holton introduces the scientific principles of genetics that are particularly important for use in genealogy.

Some sources can be considered as more reliable than others; these include records where there was a real personal incentive to get the information correct or a penalty for reporting …

It is a sad fact of family history research that there are usually no absolute truths when establishing family relationships (though DNA testing comes close) or discovering what happened to …

This video introduces the various elements of the Genealogical Proof Standard and considers why basing your research in proof is essential. We’ll also consider whether you can safely use pre-existing …