In popular science and behavioral writer/novelist, Anne Hart’s paperback book titled, 102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/ Genealogy: How to Find a Job, Internship, or Create Your Own Business, (ASJA Press Imprint, iUniverse, inc., Sept. 2006, ISBN: 0-595-41316-1, readers learn more than 102 ways to use training in family history and genealogy when applied to real-world careersin education, business, or government, including creative entrepreneurial start-ups.
With the future marriage of genealogy to smart cards, online databases, or similar authentication technology for family history, population registration (census), and library research, it may be easier to research family lines. Genealogical research is not only about DNA matches through DNA testing for deep ancestry, but also with smart, electronic cards designed for electronic identity and old paper records in early handwriting.
It's also a way to track military records as another way to trace family history. careers and research may focus on various state libraries or historical associations.
History and family studies are part of an interdisciplinary liberal arts program that emphasizes research and writing. Journalism courses help round out your ability to express in plain language the results of your reading, explorations, and interpretations. Obtaining a degree or even taking one course or self-study in Family History can lead to broad, interdisciplinary careers.
Graduate work in library science, law, journalism, public history, or genetics counseling (with a double major in the life sciences and social work) also lead to careers in which an historical education may be used. Public history is a field where you can pursue graduate degrees, including a doctorate.
A degree in family history and/or public history can lead to entrepreneurship or becoming a corporate executive. Most jobs don't require a specific major, but rather analytical training and training in writing.
If you're interested in taking courses or obtaining a degree or doing graduate work in history, family, home, social science, or area studies, focus on obtaining those analytical skills and good journalism skills for expressing in plain language for the public what you learned in your history and genealogy courses.
See the personal history course link and take the free course online in how to be a personal historian at:
http://annehart.tripod.com/id7.html or browse the book at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-41316-1. Also see the various Web sites on personal history and family history/genealogy/ancestry books by the author at: http://how-to-books.blogspot.com/ and various related topic books by the author at: http://how-to-books.blogspot.com/2007/05/articles-book-excerpts-reviews-and.html.
Family history now is becoming a popular major within social and public history/genealogy at the university level, especially with a specialization in conservation, restoration, and archiving of historic family documents, photos, and art.