We're thrilled you've joined us! Here you'll hear about the course overall, how you'll learn and also meet your educators.

Here we'll learn a bit more about Mary and John, and start to think about family trees.

An introduction to traditional genealogy, often the starting point in family research before DNA is considered

In this activity we'll learn a bit about DNA testing, and follow Mary as she considers if it's right for her family history research.

Here, we'll learn more about DNA and how it's inherited.

As we approach the end of the first week, we'll take a moment to reflect and look back at what we've learned so far.

In this activity, you'll hear about what we'll be focusing on this week.

Here we'll think about what Mary hopes to achieve through her research and what she should think about before she begins.

In this activity we'll learn more about different types of DNA tests and their uses.

Here we'll think a bit more about the various testing strategies available and how suitable they might be for Mary and John.

In this activity we'll learn about the process of taking a test and start to think about what happens next.

In this activity we'll learn about inheritance and its implications.

As we come to the end of week 2, we'll take a moment to reflect on and discuss what we've learned so far.

In week 3, we study matches in more detail and also how to investigate and interpret results.

Here, Mary and John receive some results! Let's find out what they can tell us.

In this activity we think about what Mary should do next, thinking about how we go about investigating results.

In this activity, we think about known relatives and how they can help with our research.

Here, we think about how to review and analyse our results - including 'clustering'.

Here we'll learn more about mitochondrial DNA and the opportunities it offers for testing.

As we approach the end of the week, we'll take a moment to look back on what we've learned and discuss our progress.

In this week continues our focus on autosomal DNA while think about the value of maximising potential matches.

Here, we'll learn more about corresponding with matches and see Mary make direct contact with a close match.

This section focuses on the challenges of managing matches and how to navigate these effectively.

Here we'll learn about chromosome matching and DNA Painter, hearing from the creator of DNA Painter Jonny Perl.

As we approach the end of week 4, we'll take a moment to reflect on what we've learned and discuss progress so far.

In week 5, we'll cover Y-DNA, ethnicity and mitochondrial DNA.

Here we'll focus on Y-DNA, and there's a surprise in store for John when he receives his results.

Here we'll consider how genetic lineages can be formed and also how some can die out.

In this activity we'll think in more detail about haplogroups and haplotrees.

Here, we'll look back over week 5 and what we've learned about researching dead ends.

In this, our final week, we'll think about how to maximise your testing, and we'll also see how Mary and John have done just that.

Here we'll discuss advanced Y-DNA testing, thinking about how it can help to maximise results.

In this activity we'll cover some other research options you may be interested in exploring.

In this activity we'll start by thinking about what Mary has learned over her journey, before moving on to reflect on what you've learned on yours.

As we come to the end of the course we want to say thank you all for learning with us! here we'll see what Mary has done with her new knowledge, and pause for a final moment of reflection.

Here you'll find some resources and options to continue learning about genetic genealogy.