Course Spotlight: Teaching Genealogy Classes in Your Community

Have you ever wanted to design your own genealogy course? Do you teach classes or want to teach classes in your town or city? Need help with questions about speaker fees, lesson plans, or venues? Then Teaching Genealogy Classes in Your Community at SLIG Academy for Professionals 2022 is for you.

Become a Better Teacher

Students in this course will be introduced to skills and tools that help them create and design impactful and meaningful classes for their communities. The course will engage students in practice and homework to help them generate lesson plans, becoming a more engaging speaker, and create effectively designed slides. The course will cover instructing in different environments (online vs. live), catering to varying learning styles, and even teaching genealogy to children.

The Business Side of Speaking

In addition to helping you develop your skills as an instructor, students will also take part in discussions about the logistical and business skills essential to become a successful teacher. Experienced course faculty will walk students through choosing venues, marketing your classes, setting fees, and classroom management. Students will also get the opportunity to dive into specialty topics such as designing presentations that are culturally inclusive and copyright issues.

The full schedule for this course, faculty bios, and course details can be found here.

Join us for SLIG Virtual Academy 2022

Held virtually, the SLIG Academy for Professionals promises in-depth, advanced educational opportunities targeted at current and developing genealogy professionals. SLIG Academy offers high-intermediate to advanced education and includes courses on business management, writing, public speaking, teaching, forensics, and project management. Visit our website to view a full selection of available courses.

Learn more about SLIG Academy for Professionals 2022. Registration is open now! Create a registration account today! If you have any questions, please reach out to the UGA registrar: registrar@slig.ugagenealogy.org.

Course Spotlight: Beyond Fundamentals: Hands-On Forensic Genealogy

Have a fundamental understanding of forensic genealogy? Do you want to expand your skills in a practical and hands-on way? Did you take a previous forensic institute course and want to learn more? Join us for Beyond Fundamentals: Hands-On Forensic Genealogy at the SLIG Academy for Professionals in 2022. This course is offered in weekly sessions at two different times on Wednesdays from February 9 to April 6, 2022.

Real Life Cases

Students will participate in a full week of interactive educational experiences. Practice will be given incorporating real-life cases and scenarios. Students will work individually and together to solve engaging cases in probate, real estate, and more. The course will even close with a game show!

Expand Your Skills

In addition to practice and experience, this course offers an opportunity for students to dive deeper into important skills in forensic genealogy. Advanced techniques will be taught in finding elusive individuals, efficient case management, mortgage, mineral rights, citizenship, and heir research. Students will also delve into important topics such as resolving conflicting evidence, ethical considerations and decisions, and maintaining genealogical standards.

The full schedule for this course, faculty bios, and course details can be found here.

Join us for SLIG Virtual Academy 2022

Held virtually, the SLIG Academy for Professionals promises in-depth, advanced educational opportunities targeted at current and developing genealogy professionals. SLIG Academy offers high-intermediate to advanced education and includes courses on business management, writing, public speaking, teaching, forensics, and project management. Visit our website to view a full selection of available courses.

Learn more about SLIG Academy for Professionals 2022. Registration is open now! Create a registration account today! If you have any questions, please reach out to the UGA registrar: registrar@slig.ugagenealogy.org.

Course Spotlight: Writing and Documentation for Peer Review

Have you ever wanted to improve your writing? Do you want to know how to prepare your research for peer review? Is it your dream to have your work published in a peer review journal? Improve your skills and prepare yourself by enrolling in Writing and Documenting for Peer Review at SLIG Virtual Academy 2022.

 

Practice with Peer Review

Students will participate in several interactive learning experiences and homework assignments designed to prepare them for the peer-review process. Students will be given the opportunity to incorporate their own personal writing, prepared before the course begins. Activities will include self-editing exercises, live-editing by a former NGSQ editor, colleague-to-colleague review between students, and writing groups.

Incorporating Standards

Peer-reviewed articles are meant to be writing that exemplifies research best practices and adherence to genealogy standards. Students will be expected to come to the course familiar with Genealogy Standards, and they will learn to incorporate those standards into their writing.

Writing Skills

Students in this course will also be exposed to numerous practical writing skills aimed at helping them prepare for authoring a peer-reviewed article. Visual aids, self-editing, citations, and incorporating DNA results into your writing and all invaluable tools that will be examined. The faculty, all experienced writers and editors, will also help students incorporate best practices into their writing, such as proper word choice, avoiding passive voice, incorporating structure and flow, and important grammar skills.

The full schedule for this course, faculty bios, and course details can be found here.

Join us for SLIG Virtual Academy 2022

Held virtually, the SLIG Academy for Professionals promises in-depth, advanced educational opportunities targeted at current and developing genealogy professionals. SLIG Academy offers high-intermediate to advanced education and includes courses on business management, writing, public speaking, teaching, forensics, and project management. Visit our website to view a full selection of available courses.

Learn more about SLIG Academy for Professionals 2022. Registration opens on August 14th, 2021, at 10:00 am MDT. Create a registration account today! If you have any questions, please reach out to the UGA registrar: registrar@slig.ugagenealogy.org.

SLIG Announces Academy 2022 Updates

Concerns for the health and safety of participants during this program continues to be at the forefront of our minds. During the Academy, our smaller size makes it necessary to share space in the hotel with other groups, increasing health and safety risks during a second pandemic year.

Therefore, we are pleased to announce the following changes:

·         The SLIG Academy for Professionals 2022 will again take place virtually. Following the success of this year’s virtual program, courses will meet in a week-to-week format, beginning January 3oth with orientation and ending in April.

·         Two additional courses will be added to the already available options for 2022. These will be:

1.       Writing and Documenting for Peer Review with Karen Mauer Jones, CG, FGBS, FUGA

2.      Teaching Genealogy Classes in your Community with Katherine R. Willson

To view the newly updated line-up of all courses please visit the Academy webpage at SLIGacademy.ugagenealogy.org.

·         The Accreditation Course, Becoming an Accredited Genealogist Professional: The Why, the What, the How with Diana Elder, AG, and Lisa Stokes, AG will move to SLIG during the week of January 9-14, 2022. This transition will allow participation in unique course experiences and sample testing at the Family History Library.

·         Registration will still open on August 14, 2021, at 2:00 pm MDT. Enrollment will be limited to a single course.

·         Course lengths will vary to support the designed curriculum for each course.

Additional information may be found on our website, slig.ugagenealogy.org, as it becomes available.

We look forward to seeing you – safe and healthy – virtually at SLIG Academy 2022.