Education Centre

Our mission is to encourage people to further their own learning about Genealogy and Family History in an enjoyable and informal atmosphere.

The Society of Genealogists has been helping family historians start their family for 100 years.

Free leaflet Start Your Family History With The Society of Genealogists

Free leaflet Top 10 Tips for starting Your Family History

Free leaflet 4 generation pedigree chart

What’s the difference?

We provide the following services to help with your research (or learning)

Family History Advice Service

Provides access to expert help by telephone, face-to-face sessions and a discussion list

Lecture & Events Programme

We offer a series of lectures and study courses on a variety of subjects of interest to family historians.

Information Leaflets

A range of free leaflets is published in PDF by the Society including subjects such as
Starting your Family History, The right to Arms, Depositing your Research at the SoG Library.

On-Line Courses

Certificate of Family History Skills and Strategies (Intermediate).

The Society of Genealogists is delighted join forces with Pharos Teaching & Tutoring to offer the esteemed SoG courses and education programme to a wider audience than can attend the Society’s classes in London. Together we are introducing a new joint programme, the distance learning Certificate of Family History Skills and Strategies (Intermediate).

The Skills and Strategies course will offer a practical opportunity for family historians to take their research further and to develop their own expertise and understanding of genealogical sources and techniques.

Following successful pilot courses last year, the Society and Pharos have teamed up to make available a full course of instruction, with assessment, to any interested genealogist anywhere in the world. First modules in the Skills and Strategies programme will be offered in September 2010. It will be possible to complete all 10 modules in an 18 month period.

The modules are listed here in alphabetical order:

Apprenticeships & Guilds
Employment Records
Lists & Sources from Georgian England
Migration in the British Isles
Military Records
Nonconformity in England and Wales
The Poor, the Parish and the Workhouse
Victorian Crime & Punishment
Wills and Administrations
17th Century Sources

Tutors include the well-known authors and genealogists, Gill Blanchard, Liz Carter, Else Churchill, Simon Fowler, Sherry Irvine, Michael Isherwood and Stuart Raymond. All have made significant contributions to the world of family history and bring a wide array of records knowledge and teaching experience to the online classroom.

The Skills and Strategies course is suitable for genealogists who have had at least two years experience in family history research in England & Wales and have mastered the fundamentals of census, civil registrations and parish registers but who now wish to move on to new records and a greater understanding of research methods and skills.

Students choosing to take all ten modules as a full programme with assessments leading to the Intermediate Certificate can sign up now at an introductory price of £450. This represents a saving of £42.90 on the full listed price. Each module is monitored by the Society to ensure excellent standards of content and teaching.

Students may, alternatively, choose not have work assessed and to take any arrangement of individual topics. Courses taken individually without assessment cost less.

To find out more or enroll for this great learning opportunity, visit www.pharostutors.com/certificate.php

Society of Genealogists - Genealogy Links

Links with other Genealogical and Family History resources

Standards & good practice in Genealogy

The Society has drafted guidelines defining standards and good practice in Genealogy with the aim of improving the quality and standardisation of genealogical research.