Source: Random Acts of Kindness – Family Tree Encyclopedia
The following list describes the various old occupations of which many are archaic. These are useful to genealogists since surnames usually originated from someone’s occupation.
Families Unearthed is a private website dedicated to family history with an excellent compilation of identified naming conventions by nationality/culture, some name abbreviations that are used in genealogy and the more common nicknames that are used.
Find here a relationship chart of family members and how to determine degrees of consanguinity which refers to the property of being from the same kinship and to what degree they relate to one another. In such a table, each level of consanguinity or generation appears as a row and individuals with the same degree of relationship share the same row. Consanguinity is of relevance to matters of incestuous relationships, marriage, and issues of inheritance.
Access to the extensive online FamilySearch databases from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Findmypast is a UK-based online genealogy service owned, since 2007, by British company DC Thomson. If you have roots in England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales, consider subscribing to gain access to millions of parish records, censuses, military and criminal records, and millions of British and Irish newspapers. The website hosts billions of searchable records of census, directory and historical record information. It originated in 1965 when a group of genealogists formed a group named “Title Research”.
The university offers family history webinars, classes and instructional videos on conducting one’s own genealogical research.
The college offers a course in Irish family and social history taught over two years. The course focuses on imparting a sound knowledge of main sources, competency in key research methodologies, and an understanding of the theoretical framework of genealogical and family history studies.
Through its centre for Archive and Information Studies, the university offers individual classes for credit covering research skills and sources, heraldry, and paleography and diplomatic in England and Scotland.
The university offers a master’s degree in family history and a certificate program in family history and genealogical methods within a concentration in Irish Studies.
The university offers a master’s degree in genealogical paleo9graphic, and heraldic studies in full-time, part-time, and modular versions It includes thorough grounding in the theory and practice of genealogical research, records, archives and heraldry with a focus on the British Isles. Study is fully online and largely asynchronous. A PhD in history with genealogical studies is also offered as a three-year research degree.
The university offers an undergraduate certificate and a diploma in family history.
The Genealogical Institute of the Maritimes is non-profit organization established in 1983 under the auspices of the Council of Maritime Premiers. The Institute arose in response to a need identified by leading genealogists, genealogical societies of the Maritime provinces, and archivists for certification and registration of persons undertaking genealogical research for the public.