Professional Genealogists with a specialty as Personal Historians preserve the stories and lives of their clients. If you love the story side of genealogy, this certificate program is for you.
Your Personal Historian Certificate will give you the skills to research and record the meaningful stories of past generations.Learn to use interview, photography, video, research, writing, heirloom preservation, storytelling techniques, and additional specialties. In the lucrative career as a professional personal historian, you work with individuals, families, organizations, businesses, historical places to tell their story.
You have 2 options, a personal certification for family historians or a post nominal award. To complete the family historian certificate you need to successfully complete 25 courses. These include 8 basic level courses, 10 intermediate level courses, 4 advanced level courses, and 3 elective courses.
To complete the post nominal award, you will choose to complete the full 40-course program. If credentials are important to your career, GenealogicalStudies.com can help you become a credentialed Professional Personal Historian! Visit GenealogicalStudies.com. From the Homepage, scroll down to the list of certificate programs and click on Personal Historian. Then, choose the 40-course program to view more information about earning your full credentials through our trade school.
Personal Historian Basic Level Courses:
Methodology Part 1 – Getting Started
Methodology Part 2 – Organizing and Skill Building
Personal Historian: Beginning Genealogy
Preserve Your Family History Documents and Heirlooms
DNA: Introduction to Genetic Genealogy
DNA: Autosomal DNA – Testing for Everyone
Business Skills: Creating a Business
Business Skills: Business Administration
Personal Historian Intermediate Level Courses:
Methodology Part 3 – More Strategies
Life of Our Ancestors
Research: Grandmothers Mothers & Daughters – Tracing Women
Personal Historian: Oral History & Interviewing Techniques
Personal Historian: Video Techniques
Research: Social History
Demystifying Culture and Folklore
Research: House and Farm Histories
Personal Historian: Telling the Stories
Photography: Clues Pictures Hold, Editing, Digitizing and Various Projects
Personal Historian Advanced Level Courses:
Genealogy Ethical Guidelines and Standards
Palaeography: Reading and Understanding Historical Documents
Genealogy and Copyright Guidelines
Genetics and Medical Family History
Note: to receive your post nominal PLCGS you will need to complete the Personal Historian/PLCGS package which consists of 40 courses.
International Institute of Genealogical Studies
Research With Confidence – Study at Your Own Pace
Your career as a Professional Genealogist is a click away! The International Institute of Genealogical Studies offers many certificate programs to get you on your way!
The International Institute of Genealogical Studies offers quality online education with over 250 courses. Our wide range of courses covers specific countries, enhances methodology research, build skills to maximize your research time, and all count toward the certification you choose.
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Brian Maclachlan
For any students or potential students starting out or in the early stages of their research on ancestry I would think this would be a not only interesting but helpful course. While I have an extensive research experience I still found a couple of things that I wasn’t aware of and was able to confirm that a few things zi was doing were on the correct t path.