EUROPEAN ACADEMY of GENEALOGY – EAG

Created in 2019, EAG is a training center dedicated to professional and amateur genealogy.

EAG aims to provide personalized teaching for its students, with an emphasis on methodology and individual support through tutoring.

The different trainers offer a variety of approaches, based on different academic and professional backgrounds, but they all share common pedagogical objectives:

– show step-by-step how to explore archives, with an emphasis on the approach and use of documents.
– monitor students’ progress through a series of exercises designed to help them assimilate the archives and analyses, and be available to answer any questions they may have.
– encourage students to demonstrate their growing mastery of genealogy, by supervising a final dissertation that will require them to reinvest what they have learned over the year.

Online training on an e-learning platform, with a private exchange area and videoconference rooms. Face-to-face sessions for longer courses: back-to-school, psycho-genealogy awareness workshop, exams.

Professional training :

Professional training in family genealogy cursus 1 : 16-month course including lectures, French paleography courses, two tutored dissertations (a professional dissertation and a research dissertation), examinations, defence of a professional case study and of the research dissertation, two compulsory internships to validate the training (internship in an archive center and internship with a professional, with the submission of an internship report for each).
Prerequisites: Bac+2 (preferably literary), fluency in French and computer skills.

Professional training in family genealogy cursus 2 : 12-month course including lectures with a professional focus, French paleography courses (optional), tutored professional dissertation, examinations, defence of a professional case study and research dissertation, two compulsory internships to validate the training (internship in an archive center and internship with a professional, each with a report).
Prerequisites : Completion of EAG’s GHA course or a DU-type genealogy course. For students coming from a DU background, additional courses will be offered, as well as the updating of their research dissertation and tests where appropriate. Mastery of the French language and IT tools is a prerequisite.

À la carte professional training courses:
– Psycho-genealogy awareness workshop (face-to-face only)
– German and French paleography (videoconference)
– Writing workshops
– Latin for genealogy, etc.

Training courses for genealogy enthusiasts

The Genealogy and History of Your Ancestors (GHA) course: a 12-month program including lectures, French paleography, a tutored research dissertation and exams.

A la carte modules: each course is available in modules with or without tutoring (apart from purely professional courses).