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Professional Certifications
Classes for Family Historians
Continuing Education in Genealogical Sciences
Trade School Professional Genealogist Credentials at Your Own Pace
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1. Click the Certificate or Course of interest by scrolling to the bottom of the home page.
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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 with your Professional Learning Certificate Genealogical Studies. 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.
14 Certificate Programs
Become a credentialed professional genealogist so people trust
you and you have confidence in your research.
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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.
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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 official trade school for genealogical education—begin your new career today!
Family Historians
- Choose from over 240 individual courses or choose one of our 14 credentialing certification programs.
- Design your flexible family history education to suit your lifestyle.
- Simply search the Course List on the lower on the home page by clicking on the certificates of interest (prices display there)
- Then click in further to see the course you've always wanted to take.
- We're here to help you reach your goals. Drop a note in the chat app and ask a question or call 800.580.0165 x1. Happy to help you!
How Does It Work?
- Choose your genealogical field of study. Generally, you'll need 40 credits or more to graduate based on the program you choose.
- Choose a country records group like American, Australian, Canadian, Eastern European, English, German, Irish, Scottish, and so on including specialties in DNA and Genetic Genealogy, Librarianship, and Professional Development.
- Regardless of focus, start with the Methodology program as the foundations for all genealogical research.
- The system remembers your courses as you go. Your full vocational credentials called a PLCGS post nominal. PLCGS stands for Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies.
- Our flexible and affordable program will help you change careers quickly or answer those family history mysteries.
Office Hours for Registration
- Angela Breidenbach, PLCGS, Executive Director and Student Advisor.
- Hours: 9 AM to 530 PM Monday-Friday Mountain, by appointment only 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. Please leave your name, number, and email if you would like help with a question or registration.
- Course costs are included with the Certificate/Course List below.
- Click to view. Click the + symbol to see course prices and descriptions.
- Buying multiple courses via a package is the best pricing if you're on a budget.
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
| 66 | 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 |