SLIG--Advanced Methodology

Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA will join us in presenting and Advanced Methodology course. Claire Bettag, CG, CGL; Rick Sayre, CG, CGL; and John Colletta, PhD., FUGA will join him as instructors.

Participants will develop genealogical research, analysis, correlation and compilation skills. Hands-on activities drawn from original sources will enhance this learning. Examples will be drawn from American States and colonies and European countries. Before the course begins, participants will complete two pre-course reading assignments. Three in course homework assignments will be optional.

Courses will include:

• Developing an Evidence Orientation


• Developing Research Questions and Hypotheses; Planning an Exhaustive Search


• Transcribing, Abstracting, Extracting, Quoting, and Documenting Sources


• Archival Research


• Census, Census-Substitute, and Name-List Strategies: Analysis, Interpretation, and Correlation


• Military and Pension Records Stategies: Analysis, Interpretation, and Correlation


• Tax Roll Strategies: Analysis, Interpretation, and Correlation


• Federal Research: Government Documents


• Rural and Urban Map Strategies: Analysis, Interpretation, and Correlation


• Locsl Land Records: Analysis, Interpretation, and Correlation


• Probate Strategies: Analysis, Interpretation, and Correlation


• Bringing Law to Bear on Complex Genealogical Problems


• Special ProblemsI: Finding Immigrant and Migrant Origins


• Special Problems II: Idnetifying Female Ancestors


• Special Problems III: Identifying Landless, Enslaved, Peasant, and Other Impoverished Ancestors


• Resolving Conflicting Evidence


• Correlating Sources, Information, and Evidence to Solve Genealolgical Problems


• Federal Land Records: Analysis, Interpretation, and Correlation


• Writing Genealogy


• Continued Advancement

Unfortunately this class is full for this year. Please contact the registrar at sligregistrar@infouga.org to be placed on a waiting list.