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Family History Daily has been educating family historians since 2013. Our courses offer the same in-depth help and unique insights you’ve come to expect from our articles, but in a convenient, online learning environment. Our exclusive, one-of-a-kind lessons cover hundreds of topics to help you find your ancestors online.
Let us help you discover free online research, break through brick walls, solve mysteries, research in the U.S. and internationally, master Google, Ancestry and dozens of other tools, get organized, apply professional search techniques, uncover family stories, make sense of DNA and so much more.
Lessons are nonacademic and built for family history hobbyists who want to improve their online research skills in an informal manner. They are self-paced and self-directed so there are no time limits or required attendance times.
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Gain lifetime access to five courses plus our specialized workbook for family historians. Learn with exclusive lessons, activities, quizzes, forms and worksheets and get all future course updates and new lessons for free. $339 ($645 value)
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Master Family History Research Course
Our Master Course includes more than 100 lessons, activities and quizzes that take you from absolute basics all the way to advanced research techniques. Lessons include exclusive course content from more than a dozen genealogy professionals with bonus content from FamilyHistoryDaily.com in an ad-free format. Wherever you are in your journey, this course will help you improve your research and uncover your ancestors. $229
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Organization for Family Historians Course
It's time to create a beautiful, functional system for organizing your files and research! This special 36 lesson course is designed to walk you through the steps necessary to create a clean, modern set up for managing your family history records and research - on a computer or off. Whether you have tried and failed to get organized in the past, or are just starting out, you'll create a fresh start to be proud of. $159
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Unofficial Ancestry Crash Course
The Unofficial Ancestry Crash Course offers 21 detailed lessons to help you make the most of Ancestry.com's records and tools. Discover advanced techniques that will help you move beyond straightforward searches and finally take advantage of everything this massive site has to offer. Dig up buried records, reveal hidden collections and utilize hints in whole new ways. We'll even show you how to access some of the records for free. $89
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Family History Workbook
Our new digital family history workbook is an exclusive collection of specialized forms, charts, checklists and worksheets designed to help you with your family history research. A number of the forms were constructed to help with lessons in our Master Course and Organization Course. Others are forms for general genealogical use. Each offering can be filled out digitally to be printed or saved, or printed directly as many times as you like. Never search for another form again! $39
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Give the gift of lifetime access to five full-length courses plus our specialized workbook for family historians. Once purchased, a code will be instantly emailed to you. Share the code in a card, by email or any way you like and your recipient can claim it when they are ready. $339 ($645 value)
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