Advanced Methods and Reports (482)

 Family History Skills & Strategies (Advanced) Distance Learning Course 

This course provides advanced techniques and tools to ensure you have the best possible evidence for your pedigrees and trees, and will be of use to amateur and professional genealogists alike. We look at problems of identity and interpretation, standards for evaluation and analysis, and how to build a case for proof.

We will consider the display of charts and genealogy research reports, showing the conventions and standards that are used and that enable written research to be of a high scholarly standard. Students will also practise writing short research reports to a professional standard.

SET BOOK:
There is a set book which accompanies this course: Helen Osborn, Genealogy: Essential Research Methods (Hale, 2012).
Students are asked to purchase a copy of this book before the course starts, available from all good bookshops.

* Evidence and Proof
• * Overcoming Problems in Genealogy
• * Laying out Your Tree
• * Writing up Your Research

Each lesson contains exercises and activities and a minimum of one hour chat session per week. See How the Courses Work.

STUDENTS SAID: "I thought that the course brought together really well all the differing parts of tackling problems, creating trees and writing a report. The writing of the reports was the part I was least familiar with and where I learnt the most."

"It was both informative and comprehensive in its content. I found the tutor both helpful and approachable. It was a great start to understanding more about report writing and to looking at documents with a fine toothcomb."

ADVANCED PROGRAMME:
This course is part of our Family History Skills and Strategies Advanced programme but can also be taken individually as a standalone course and you may chose whether or not to be assessed.  If you are interested in enrolling on our Advanced programme please do not buy the course individually here but see this link for entrance requirements and contact details.

Relevant Countries: England, Wales and General