Diploma in Family History Research (Advanced)

Course Modules

This diploma course is being delivered by Members of Accredited Genealogists Ireland (AGI)

Outline of Advanced Course

• Week 1: Revision of Civil Registration, Census, Church Records, and Land Records and report writing.
• Week 2: Estate Records & Registry of Deeds Records
• Week 3: DNA double lecture covering the science behind DNA analysis and how it is used for genealogical research.
• Week 4: Military – Irish, British, American
• Week 5: Church Records Religion: COI (advanced), Non-Conformist, Quaker
• Week: 6: Wills and Testamentary – two lectures divided between early wills and testamentary records including wills in the ROD and the substitutes used for what was destroyed in 1922, followed by more recent wills (post 1857 and post 1900), what survives and how to navigate the collections and obtain copies.
• Week 8: Report Writing – workshops and detailed lecture on report writing and research methods
• Week 9: Overseas/International Research (advanced level)
• Week 10: Repository Visit: Repeat visit to examine additional sources to be substituted with online lecture on CSORP & Parliamentary papers.

Course Award

City Colleges Diploma

Entry Requirements

Entry to the Advanced level course is conditional upon students ideally having completed the Professional Certificate in Family History Research (Foundation) or upon a brief assessment of their previous experience and knowledge (to be approved by the AGI).

If you are interested in Family History Research but do not have the relevant experience please sign up for our Professional Certificate in Family History Research (Foundation)

Assessments/Examinations

Assessment – Selected homework tasks will be given through the course and will be worth 40% of grade. A written assignment tracing a family in the records covered on the course will be due at week 10 and will be worth 60% of grade.

Lecturer

Sandra Doble, MAGI, has been a Member of AGI since 2015, having been an
Affiliate from 2013. Previously she had worked in accountancy, having qualified as
a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Having worked
for over fifteen years in auditing and as a finance manager, she decided to turn to
her true passion of genealogy and pursue it professionally. She successfully
completed a diploma course in Family History / Genealogy and about the same
time set up her own business. She is part of the AGI team that operates the
Genealogy Advisory Service at the National Archives. Research on Church of
Ireland families is one of her particular interests.

Sandy O’Byrne, MAGI, has been a Member of AGI since 2017, having been an
Affiliate from 2014. Prior to working in ancestral research she was a journalist and
features writer, covering particularly food, wine, travel and books. She also wrote
three books and was a part-time lecturer. She had graduated from Trinity College
Dublin with an Honours B.A. in History of Art and English, specialising in the
eighteenth century Irish country house. Family history had always interested her
and she began exploring her own ancestry. This resulted in tracing one line back
to William the Conqueror. Having successfully completed a diploma course in
Family History / Genealogy in 2012, she decided to work full-time in genealogy.

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