Personal Historian/PLCGS Certificate
# Courses Base Price
METHODOLOGY-100 - Basic Methodology 5 $636.00
Course: ME-101 - Methodology - Part 1: Getting Started $119.00
Course: ME-102 - Methodology - Part 2: Organizing and Skill-Building $119.00
Course: ME-103 - Electronic Resources: Using The Internet $119.00
Course: ME-104 - Skills: Transcribing, Abstracting and Extracting $119.00
Course: ME-105-2023 - Analysis and Skills Mentoring-Part 1 $160.00
PH-100 - Basic Personal Historian 6 $714.00
Course: EL-PH-101 - Personal Historian: Beginning Genealogy $119.00
Course: EL-107 - Preserve Your Family History Documents and Heirlooms $119.00
Course: DG-101 - DNA: Introduction to Genetic Genealogy $119.00
Course: DG-102 - DNA: Autosomal DNA - Testing for Everyone $119.00
Course: PD-101 - Business Skills: Creating a Business $119.00
Course: PD-102 - Business Skills: Business Administration $119.00
METHODOLOGY-200 - Intermediate Methodology 5 $646.00
Course: ME-201 - Methodology - Part 3: More Strategies $119.00
Course: ME-202 - Methodology - Part 4: Effective Searching and Recording $119.00
Course: ME-203 - Methodology - Part 5: How To Prove It $119.00
Course: ME-204-2023 - Analysis and Skills Mentoring-Part 2 $160.00
Course: ME-205 - Latin for Genealogists $129.00
PH-200 - Intermediate Personal Historian 9 $1,071.00
Course: EL-240 - Life of Our Ancestors $119.00
Course: EL-222 - Research: Grandmothers, Mothers & Daughters-Tracing Women $119.00
Course: EL-PH-232 - Personal Historian: Oral History & Interviewing Techniques $119.00
Course: EL-PH-237 - Personal Historian: Video Techniques $119.00
Course: EL-238 - Research: Social History $119.00
Course: PD-201 - Demystifying Culture and Folklore $119.00
Course: PD-202 - Research: House and Farm Histories $119.00
Course: PD-203 - Personal Historian: Telling the Stories $119.00
Course: PD-204 - Photography: Clues Pictures Hold, Editing, Digitizing and Various Projects $119.00
METHODOLOGY-300 - Advanced Methodology 5 $636.00
Course: ME-301 - Methodology - Part 6: Professional Preparation and Practice $119.00
Course: ME-302 - Palaeography: Reading and Understanding Historical Documents $119.00
Course: ME-303 - Genealogy and Copyright Guidelines $119.00
Course: ME-304 - Genetics and Medical Family History $119.00
Course: ME-305-2023 - Analysis and Skills Mentoring-Part 3 $160.00
PH-300 - Advanced Personal Historian 1 $119.00
Course: DG-301 - Genealogy Ethical Guidelines and Standards $119.00
Electives 9 $1,071.00
Package total: 40 $4,893.00

Professional Genealogists with a specialty as Personal Historians Credentials preserve the stories and lives of their clients. If you love the story side of genealogy, this certificate program is for you. Wisdom, life and business experience, family traditions, and more are told through the eyes of the person with the help of a professional genealogist.

Learn to use interview, photography, video, research, writing, heirloom preservation, storytelling techniques, and additional specialties. In the lucrative career as a professional personal historian, you work with individuals, families, organizations, businesses, historical places to tell their story. 

This program includes 40 courses (39 compulsory and 1 electives chosen from a suggested list or any other) to graduate as a credentialed Personal Historian.
Personal Historian PLCGS Crediential Program differs from the Personal Historian 25-course Certificate Program because there are 15 more credits earned allowing the student to earn the PLCGS credentials, and the student has completed the full Methodology program which is the foundation of all professionally credetialed professional genealogical skills. Suggestion: Consider a writing course for your elective such as Writing Your Family History Book

Note: All students will need to create a student account at https://GenealogicalStudies.com to take the courses online.

Program includes reading, videos, live meetings to meet with instructors (designated by course or monthly by program), written and personal interview assignments, and final exams in each course. Full length of program can be completed in your own timing, in as little as 12-18 months or you can spread it out to meet your current life needs. Flexible to meet your schedule. Finish faster or take your time, it's up to you.

If you love the story side of genealogy, earning your professional Personal Historian credentials is for you.
For questions, please call 800.580.0165 x1 or book an appointment for student advising by dropping a note in the chat app. 


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