Education

• Brigham Young University - Idaho

  BSc

  History
  Family History and Communications Emphases 2005-2007: deferment as a Full-time Volunteer Representative for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2007-2010: my studies during this period included a visiting semester at Brigham Young University in Utah and over 40 credits of Independent Study work through that university.
  

• Brigham Young University - Idaho

  Associate of Applied Science

  Family History Research
  Online Adjunct Faculty member teaching and taking various family history courses Family History Research Certificate, April 2015 Family History Research Associate of Applied Science, July 2016
  

• Brigham Young University

  Non-matriculated

  Family History (Genealogy)
  See explanation under BYU-Idaho. Twenty-nine of my fifty-five BYU credits were in genealogy.
  

• Salt Lake Community College

  Non-matriculated

  Genealogy
  Preparation for International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists testing, successfully completed January 2015.
  

• University of Strathclyde

  Master of Science - MSc

  Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies
  Master's degree year Dissertation, professional development plan, and learning log My topic: What is the Value of School Records for Genealogical Research in the United States?: A case study of school registers in Baltimore City, late 19th Century Postgraduate degree year Rather than individual courses, three modules run concurrently. • Module 1 Methods of Professional Enquiry Assignments build up to a 5,000 word academic research paper. • Module 2 Genealogy, heraldry and social history Research and reporting exercises for several countries, as well as genetic, and medieval genealogy. • Module 3 Documents and palaeography Études include five projects focused on the interpretation of documents. The first is a group project, and the third is a study of a 16th century Latin document. Both are well defined. The remaining three études have topic parameters, but the student may choose his or her own project. These topics are: area or house study, client report, and migration report.