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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

6 SLIG 2019 Instructors Streaming from NGS!

Not going to the National Genealogical Society's Family History Conference this May in Grand Rapids, Michigan? Well, you can stream live sessions right to your own home. SLIG is proud to have 6 instructors participating in the live streaming.




 LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG
“Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Ancestors who came out of Slavery”

Angie Bush, MS
“Your Cousins Are Your Secret Weapon”

Blaine Bettinger, PhD, JD
“Native American DNA: Separating Fact From Fiction”

Angela Packer McGhie, CG
“History, Records and Context: Researching the Locations Your Ancestors Lived”

Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS
“Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events”

Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
“A Matter of Standards: DNA and the GPS”


You can access the full schedule and times here: http://www.playbackngs.com/

We will publish a thorough list of all our instructors for the whole conference. Stay tuned!

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Congratulations to Leah Larkin!


She is the winner of the Ancestry ProGenealogists scholarship to attend SLIG 2019. 


The scholarship was established to "foster and support professional genealogists in their ongoing development efforts," four winners are selected annually; one for each of the four major institutes. The scholarship covers tuition and specific travel expenses.

Leah is originally from southern Louisiana, where she grew up in the heart of Cajun country, steeped in culture and history. She earned her Ph.D. in biology from the University of Texas at Austin, where she used DNA to study how species are related. After working in both academia and scientific publishing, she turned her skills to solving unknown parentage cases using DNA. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children.

We are looking forward to seeing you in January 2019, Leah!

Click here for information on all scholarships available for SLIG.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Test Your Genealogical Skills!

The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy's (SLIG's) Virtual Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum will run from Saturday, October 13, 2018 to Saturday, November 17, 2018.

This course will test your ability to plan, research, analyze, correlate, and solve a complex genealogical research problem.

Work through one complex case study per week on your own time schedule and then gather online to discuss the case with fellow classmate and the the case instructor to compare strategies, methodologies, difficulties and results.

The course coordinator is Angela McGhie, CG. The 2018 Virtual Practicum features the cases presented at SLIG in January 2018 by the following instructors:

  • Kimberly Powell
  • Karen Stanbary, CG
  • Paul Woodbury
  • Karen Matheson
  • Angela McGhie, CG

Registration opens at 11:00 am MDT on Saturday, June 16th, with early access (9 am MDT) for SLIG 2018 participants.