Pricing
What each course costs, and what comes with it.
Content is bought once and stays yours. Only live time is a subscription.
Prices in Canadian dollars, taxes extra.
The vertical ladder
The three-level path
Each level stands on its own. They follow one another, but nothing requires you to start at the first: the question you are asking decides, not the order.
| The three-level path | Genealogy Foundations$97 CADwhen it opens | Intermediate Genealogy$187 CADwhen it opens | Proof of Lineage$347 CADwhen it opens | The complete pathAll three levels$497 CADwhen it opens · $134 CAD less |
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| In a word | ||||
| What it is | Tracing your French-Canadian ancestors, from a single name to four documented generations. | Censuses, notarial records, old handwriting, and the databases that hold French-Canadian families. | Building a line of descent that an administration, a notary, or a court will accept. | All three courses, bought together, taken in whatever order you like. |
| It is for you if | You have a name, maybe a date, and no idea where to begin. | You know how to search, but an unreadable record or two sources that disagree stop you. | Someone else will have to believe you: an administration, a notary, a court. | You want the whole road, without wondering at each step whether you have to buy again. |
| What is in it | ||||
| Modules and lessons | – | – | – | – |
| Video | – | – | – | – |
| What you will be able to do | ||||
| Document four generations, from a name to a record | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Cite a source so that someone else can find it again | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Read old handwriting, in an interactive workshop | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Censuses and notarial records | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Artificial intelligence as a research assistant | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Decide between two sources that contradict each other | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Build a line of descent a third party will accept | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Indirect research and a documented negative result | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| DNA as a complement to documentary proof | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Options at checkout | ||||
| Two things can be added to any of these courses at checkout. Their price does not change with the course you pick, and nothing requires you to take them now: they can be bought later just as well. | ||||
| Five live sessions with me, in a small group | + $200 CAD | + $200 CAD | + $200 CAD | + $200 CAD |
| Credit toward the next level when you finish this one | $50 CAD | $50 CAD | not applicable | |
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Included in all four, without exception
- Lifetime access, with no expiry and no renewal
- The quizzes and the certificate
- The printable documents: research log, citation templates, interview grids
- Corrections and additions, at no further cost
- French and English, at the same price
The horizontal ladder, the same across the catalog
With or without me in the room
These three columns change nothing about the content. They only say how much real time you are buying, and that is the one thing in the catalog with a cap.
| With or without me in the room | On your ownincludedincluded in the price shown | With a cohort+ $200 CADone cohort · whichever course you own | The standing hour$19 CADper month · cancel anytime |
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| The course, for life | ✓ | ✓ | already yours |
| Five live sessions of 75 minutes | ✓ | ||
| Your file or your case looked at live | ✓ | ✓ | |
| An open hour, every month | 6 months | ✓ | |
| The session recordings | ✓ | ||
| Group capped at | 12 | 20 | |
| Commitment | none | one cohort | monthly |
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What the standing hour is not
- It gives access to no course: you must already own at least one
- Cancel and you lose the room, never what you paid for once
- There is one for the whole catalog: one room, one hour a month
How to read these prices
Three things worth knowing
Starting small costs almost nothing extra
Finish a level and you receive $50 CAD toward the next. Climbing all three steps one at a time therefore comes to $531 CAD in all, against $497 CAD for the complete path.
Live time is not hidden inside the price of the content
Cohort sessions and the standing hour are paid for separately, because they are capped. You do not pay for classroom time you will not use.
One subscription in the whole catalog
The monthly standing hour, and nothing else. Everything else is bought once. Cancelling it never takes away a course you paid for.
What can lower the price
The discounts that exist
The upgrade credit
A $50 CAD coupon toward the next level, given to anyone who finishes one. There is nothing to ask for.
The first-cohort price
A discount in exchange for feedback and a testimonial, announced as time-limited.
Genealogical societies
About 15%, through a code given to the society, for its members.
Not sure where to start?
Write to me with the question you are asking about your family. I will tell you which level answers it, even if the answer is none of them.
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