Updated Canadian Wills Course
Ancestor’s wills and estate records aren’t always easy to find. We’re here to help you stop the endless searching so you can find these important documents with confidence!…
A Stellar Review
We love to hear from our students! Many of our students share positive comments and reviews online about our courses and instructors. This week we received a 5 Star review from one of our students, Judith T., that is so heartwarming we decided to share it. Judith has been studying genealogy with IIGS for over 20 years. She has also purchased several mentoring sessions with our instructors. This is what Judith’s review says: “Outstanding experience with mentoring sessionsI have now purchased four 30-minute mentoring sessions with three different instructors at IIGS. They were a great value and met the highest professional standards. To ensure I got the most from each session, I wrote down and submitted my questions beforehand. In every instance, my questions were thoroughly answered. All mentors were knowledgeable , had prepared in advance, and each offered suggestions and links for further self-exploration. I am strictly a family historian and my searches have taken me around the globe. Whether it was reviewing my work to ensure I hadn’t missed important sources, figuring out obscure land records, learning how to navigate a complex database, or helping prepare a research plan for an offshore trip, in each case my experience was exceptional. I have since met and worked with professional genealogists in other institutions, and my experience with the mentors at IIGS ranked among the very best. My investment and experiences were excellent.“ Thank you, Judith, for the great review! At IIGS we strive to give our students an excellent…
The Benefits of being an IIGS Student
Sometimes it takes a huge leap of faith to jump off the proverbial fence and dive into something new. You begin to wonder if it would be worth your time and money. You think about it again and ask yourself, “What’s in it for me? What would I gain from this?” IIGS is not just another site offering online courses – we have a heartfelt desire to help you achieve your dreams of becoming a genealogist. You can contact us via email, our website chat app, and by phone. You’ll talk with a real person, we don’t use bots or those endless phone menus that keep you pushing numbers to actually reach someone. Our student advisors are available to help you decide on what courses and certificate programs best fit your needs. We have student mentors who can help you navigate your course work, an educational YouTube channel with over 100 different videos, and a private student-only Facebook group to keep you up to date on our Virtual Meetings, course updates, and our special speaker events. Our students benefit from monthly Virtual Meetings with our instructors. These meetings give them a chance to ask questions, clarify course work, and learn new skills. Our new website is user friendly to make learning fun and easy! It includes downloadable PDFs of our course content for you to print at home, or, if you prefer, you can order it already printed from our store. Some of our courses have required reading, so to…
How Can A Mentoring Appointment Help?
Student, Judith Tracey, found the help she needed from both her course and a mentoring professor appointment. Here’s her thoughts about what it’s like to attend the International Institute of Genealogical Studies and work with a mentoring professor. “Just a quick note to tell you that I am delighted with my tutorial withLaurie James. She was well prepared, thorough and very personable. I am sograteful for IIGS support with my Irish studies. They are outside of myAmerican Records courses and my lack of familiarity with things Irish makessome aspects of some of the courses quite challenging. I knew from thebeginning that navigating the Irish Registry of Deeds can be difficult, butI was not prepared for the complexities which I experienced. However,Laurie walked me through and we did an example together, and she helped memake sense of it. I was able to return to the collection today (five dayslater) and was able to work my way through, from the index to the memorialbooks, which was the objective. You can only imagine how good that makes mefeel. There is so much information in those documents that I need toretrieve, it would be a pity to be unable to access and explore them. I amrelieved. In closing, I would like to share my positive IIGS ‘Irish experience’, bothwith Claire and Laurie with other students and those considering enrolment.Please let me know where I should post my positive remarks.” Your happy student/client,Judith Tracey International Institute of Genealogical Studies Research With Confidence ~ Study at…
New Scottish Records Course
Scottish: Emigration and Immigration Records is the latest course in our Scottish Records Certificate. Written by our Director of Scottish Studies, Morag Peers MSc, this advanced level course explores the records along with the ‘how and why’ of the movement of the Scottish population. What You Will Learn: The course begins with an overview of the laws concerning both emigration and immigration, naturalization, nationality, and where to find the records. You will explore emigration from Scotland pre and post 1850. Discussions will include the Jacobite Rebellions, Highland and Lowland Clearances, the transportation of criminals, and indentured servitude. You will look at passenger lists, crew lists, shipbuilding records, Canada’s Home Children as well opportunities for women who wished to emigrate. The course includes in depth discussions of immigration to Scotland focussing on Irish Immigration, Italian Immigration, and Jewish Immigration. Irish immigration discussions include the Great Famine, seasonal migration, and the Post Famine Emigration both to and from Scotland. Common names, name variations, and how to locate Irish Immigrants on the census is looked at in depth. The module which focusses on Italian Immigration to Scotland includes the history of their immigration. You will discuss Roman Catholic Records as well as the roles Italian Scots played in both WWI and WWII. WWII interment records are included in the discussion as well as where and why people were sent there. Jewish immigration into Scotland explores the history of their immigration in the late 19th Century. You will learn about the growth of the Jewish…