Online Courses

Want to trace your family history, but don't know where to start? Hit a brick wall and aren't sure where to turn next?

You'll find the help you need at Family Tree University. Our interactive online courses provide you with how-to guidance to overcome your genealogical challenges and improve your research skills. Classes cover the gamut of genealogy-related topics, from online research to specific record groups to ways you can preserve and share your family.

Each four-week course features:

• Lessons developed by genealogy experts
• Exercises for applying what you've learned to your own search
• Expert instructors to provide feedback and answer questions
• Tips to make you a better researcher
• Opportunities to interact with other family historians to share ideas and research finds
• Step-by-step tutorials and real-life research examples

Best of all, you experience it all from the comfort of your computer—and there's no schedule but your own. Within each course session, you determine the best time to "go to class," and participate in class discussions, or drop by the site just to chat.

Watch our "crash course" video to see firsthand how the courses work and meet some of our expert instructors, then visit FamilyTreeUniversity.com to sign up for a class today!

Family Tree University Crash Course from Family Tree Magazine on Vimeo.