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1. Click the Certificate or Course of interest by scrolling to the bottom of the home page.

2.Add to your shopping cart to see any automatic discounts available.

3. Pay/Register and start **today! Scroll down to click the Course/Certificate List

**You can choose any date to start. You're in control.

Take one course that fascinates you or earn full professional credentials. Vocational school credentials mean you're qualified to start working upon graduation. Our flexibility is known as "grace and mercy for adults who are adulting." That heart-felt desire to help you succeed is what brings our graduates back for continuing education. Need some help or have a question? Our chat app has a real person answering (bottom right corner, leave a name, phone, and email. We do not spam you, sell or share your personal information.) or call 800.580.0165 x1. 
Certificate Programs
Become a credentialed professional genealogist so people trust you.
  • Choose your future by choosing your credentialing certificate program: American, Australian, Canadian, Eastern European, English, German, Irish, Italian, Methodology, Scottish, DNA and Genetic Genealogy, Librarianship, Personal Historian, and Professional Development to build your own business. 
  • Scroll to the lower part of the home page. Course/certificate lists open to reveal prices and descriptions. 
  • Register to earn your Professional Learning Certificate Genealogical Studies from the only trade school for genealogical education—begin your new career today!
Family Historians

  • Choose from hundreds of courses or any credential program. 
  • Design an education to fit your lifestyle.
  • Search the Course List on the home page by clicking on the certificates of interest (prices display as they open.)
  • Then click each course for details.
  • Drop a note in the chat app and talk to a real person or call 800.580.0165 x1

How Does It Work?
  • Choose your genealogical field of study.
  • 15 - 40 credits to graduate based on the program you choose.
  • Regardless of focus, start with the Methodology program as the foundations for all genealogical research.
  • The system remembers your courses.
  • Post nominal credentials are called a PLCGS (Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies). 
  • Our flexible and affordable programs prepare you for a career in genealogy.
Main Office Hours

  • Angela Breidenbach, PLCGS, Executive Director and Student Advisor.
  • Hours: 9 AM to 530 PM Monday-Friday Mountain Time or by appointment outside of those hours.
  • The chat app in the bottom right corner goes right to the executive director.
  • We do not sell or share your contact information.
  • Click to view. Click the + symbol to see course prices and descriptions.
  • Buying multiple courses via a bundled package is the best pricing.

What Students Think

This is a lot of fun for me, because I haven't studied or taken exams for many years. This is a great course, and the material is fabulous. Thanks.
 -JL, Oshawa, ON

I've found these courses to be interesting and challenging. Each course has opened up a new perspective on genealogy for me!
 -Linda Christensen, Preston, Connecticut

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I can't say enough on how much I enjoy the online structured environment. I've taken courses before but nothing like this. I'm going for my Certificate. Thank You!
 -BJB, St. Louis, MO

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