SLIG Fall Virtual 2022: Record Loss: Overcoming Destroyed, Missing or Non-Extant Records; Sources and Techniques/Methods

What do you do when the records you need to answer your research question are not there?

Few experiences frustrate genealogists more frequently or intensely than discovering that records are missing. The reasons for missing documents are many: burned courthouse; clerks tossing "obsolete" records; autograph hungers; relatives who just had to have that ancestral record; environmental factors such as heat, flood, humidity, insects; war; ink fading from time or sunlight. Sometimes just the distance an ancestor had to travel to the courthouse might mean that the hoped-for deed, will, or vital record was never filed.

Record Loss: Overcoming Destroyed, Missing or Non-Extant Records; Sources and Techniques/Methods, coordinated by Kelvin L. Meyers, will show you that in many cases, it's possible to overcome the problem of missing records. You will learn strategies, alternative sources, and techniques to find the information you thought was lost when that record could not be found.

Additional faculty include:

• Deborah A. Abbott, PhD
• Jen Baldwin
• Victor S. Dunn, CG
• Sharon Batiste Gillins
• J. Mark Lowe, FUGA
• Angela Packer McGhie, CG, FUGA
• Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
• Michael L. Strauss, AG

Record Loss is scheduled to meet Thursdays, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm Mountain Time, September 15 through November 17, 2022.

See the SLIG 2022 Fall Virtual Courses web page for more information, including updates.

The recipient of the Laura G. Prescott Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Scholarship may choose to use the award to attend this course at SLIG Fall Virtual 2022. For information and to apply: Laura G. Prescott SLIG Scholarship. Deadline for applying is May 1.

SLIG Fall Virtual 2022 registration opens Saturday, May 14, at 12:00 Noon MDT.