SLIG Fall Virtual 2023: Proving Your Pedigree with DNA

Back by popular demand!

Proving Your Pedigree with DNA, coordinated by Karen Stanbary, MA, LCSW, CG, will guide you in applying your DNA analysis skills to the documentation of one of your ancestral lines back to a second great-grandparent couple. Learn to incorporate genetic evidence in a proof of parentage as part of a fully documented compiled genealogy meeting Genealogy Standards. Taught during SLIG Fall Virtual since 2021 and receiving excellent reviews, this is the intermediate-level course you need.

Highlights of the course:

• Practical step-by-step examples
• Hands-on practice with your own DNA results and research project
• Private one-on-one consultations with expert faculty members.

By the end of the course you will have:

• A source-cited lineage, including proof of biological parentage that meets Genealogy Standards
• A graphic descendant tree
• A unique, student-generated "Golden Nuggets" Quicksheet.

Prerequisites: This is an intermediate methodology course focusing on autosomal DNA. This course will not cover beginning DNA topics such as inheritance patters, tools, and references. The prerequisites require previous completion of the following full-week institute courses at any genealogical institute in two categories:

• An intermediate-level methodology course such as:
• Intermediate Foundations
• Intermediate Genealogy and Historical Studies
• Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills

AND

• A DNA course such as:
• Beginning DNA
• Introduction to Genetic Genealogy
• Practical Genetic Genealogy
• All-DNA Evidence Analysis Practicum

If a registrant does not meet the prerequisites, a work sample that correlates genetic and documentary sources to establish a conclusion meeting the Genealogical Proof Standard may be submitted for consideration.

Completion of this course will serve as a prerequisite for the advanced DNA courses offered at SLIG and IGHR.

Additional faculty includes:

• Nicole Dyer
• Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, FASG, FUGA, FNGS
• Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL
• Angela Packer McGhie, CG, FUGA
• Paul Woodbury, MEd, AG
• Jennifer Armstrong Zinck, CG

Watch this interview as Debra Hoffman shares her experience in the Proving Your Pedigree with DNA course:

Proving Your Pedigree with DNA will meet online on Friday's, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Mountain Time, September 29 through November 3, 2023 (no class on October 20).

See the SLIG Fall Virtual 2023 course webpage for more information, including updates.

SLIG Fall Virtual 2023 registration opens Saturday, May 20, at 12:00 Noon MDT.