Basics to Genealogy Research
4-Week Course Starts SEP 08, 2025
Course Description
Have you always wanted to improve your research skills when it comes to genealogy? Whether for your patrons or your personal queries, this course will help you locate historical finds and organize genealogy-related records. If you are just getting started or looking to take your research skills to the next level, get ready to explore the past in this four-week course.
Learning Objectives
Total Course Hours: 10 Hours/1 CEU
"I found this course to be very interesting and helpful. I plan to use the knowledge I've gained to start my own Genealogy 101 program for teens."
- Jes Gafkowitz, Young Adult Services Librarian, Brooklyn, NY
Your Instructor
Kristina Mullenix is a historian who holds a BA in History, as well as an MLIS with specialty in Archives Management and a Certificate in the Basics of Archives. Her research focus is recovering Alabama’s historical silences concerning slavery history. She has experience with digital humanities projects, oral history initiatives, and archival work. She is presently a Special Collections Librarian at a public library within the local history and genealogy department.
She has been collaborating on a grant-funded oral history project about the lives and experiences of coal miners in Brookwood, AL as a Cauthen Fellow with the Alabama Folklife Association. Recently, she published an article in the "Tributaries" journal about the project and is planning a community scan day event.
Originally from Alabama, Kristina grew up traipsing through old cemeteries on the hunt for ancestors with her family. This shaped her love of genealogy and history. Kristina is most interested in community participatory historical research and preservation, as well as oral history and all things archives-museums-history-genealogy. In her spare time, she facilitates a historical fiction book club. Follow her history adventures on Instagram @Alabamastorykeeper.
"This instructor was always helpful in answering questions. She gave excellent genealogy information. I have researched for 20 years, and I have learned new things."
- Janice Moore, Genealogy Manager at Calhoun County Public Library, Blountstown, Florida
Frequently Asked Questions
It is an asynchronous online course designed to be completed in 4 weeks.
Participants will spend approximately 2.5 hours each week on viewing lectures, answering quizzes, and completing discussion, reading, and written assignments.
It is recommended that you complete each week's work within that week to stay in sync with other learners.
1. View all lectures
2. Answer all quizzes
3. Complete all assignments .
You will receive your certificate approximately 2 weeks after the course ends.
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2. Email us at [email protected] and request that we send you an invoice. You can pay through the link provided in the invoice.