Broadening Your Family Tree

The Broadening Your Family Tree Intermediate Family History Course offers a selection of records that will help further your research and broaden your family tree.

The records of the census and GRO certificates will have offered clues to schooling, occupations and professions – they may also have provided evidence of a soldier, sailor, marine or airman. Most of us will encounter the odd nonconformist in our family tree and hopefully they all passed away having written a will, which you may have difficulty in reading. The Broadening Your Family Tree Intermediate Family History course has something for everyone.

The course fee is £285

Enrol on the course

The course consists of ten modules and will cover the following:

Palaeography [16-18th century handwriting]  - how to read those documents you find

Records of Probate [Wills and Inventories] - how to find wills and inventories

The Study of Names -  how surnames can assist in your research

Military Records - The Army, RAF, Royal Navy and Royal Marines

Records of Nonconformists - the movements, the records and the politics

Records of Education - little used records that offer so much information

Records of Occupations and the Professions - so many sources to call upon

On completion of module 10 there is the option to sit the IHGS Intermediate Level in Genealogy examination paper. IHGS holds examination days throughout the year, either at IHGS or invigilated remotely. There is a fee for entry to the IHGS Intermediate Level examination, please contact registrar@ihgs.ac.uk for more details.

For those who prefer to choose their own learning path — our Bitesize Courses through our VLE, let you focus on the topics most relevant to your research, without committing to the full programme Bitesize Courses.

Bitesize Courses