Three SLIG Contests for Fun, Experience and Finding!

Monday morning at SLIG will kick off a full week of contest fun! 

Photo Tag Line Contest: #SLIGFun

• Take a photo of any memorable SLIG moment – in your course, with your friends, as you research –and post with a caption including the hashtag #SLIGFun. 
• Two entries will be selected to receive early registration based on best caption/photo combination. All others will be drawn randomly.
• Posts should be made to or shared with the SLIG 2018 Facebook page. 
• If you are not on social media, entries may be submitted to marketing@slig.ugagenealogy.org.

Blogger Contest: #SLIGExperience

Bloggers are important to SLIG and to the SLIG experience. 

• Share your thoughts and words about your SLIG experience to enter the contest. 
• sign up by emailing marketing@slig.ugagenealogy.org. 
• You will be given information about a special bloggers room at SLIG where you may relax while you capture your thoughts. 
• Two entries will be selected to receive early registration. All others will be drawn randomly.
• Include the hashtag #SLIGExperience, and
• share your blog post on the SLIG 2018 Facebook page, tweet it, post it on Google+, or email the link to marketing@slig.ugagenealogy.org to enter.

Find-an-Elk Contest: #SLIGFind

The Elk is Utah’s state animal, and he is a little out of his native habitat here in Salt Lake City. Can you help us find him? 

• Each day a zoomed in photo of SLIG's elk (with the appropriate tapestry coat) will appear on the SLIG 2018 Facebook page in the morning. 
• If no one can identify the location of our elk from this photo, another photo will be posted that reveals more of the Elk’s location. 
• This will continue for up to 5 photos per day.
• Participants will reply to the photos and include the hashtag #SLIGFind
• Each day’s winner will win $10 in Hilton Bucks with his/her photo taken with the Elk. 
• Each day's winner will be posted on the SLIG 2018 Facebook page.
• If there is not a daily winner, the prizes will go unrewarded.

Contests are open to all SLIG attendees. If you aren’t a Facebook user, and wish to join in the fun, please ask for details at the UGA booth in SLIG Central or email marketing@SLIG.ugagenealogy.org.

Join in to experience all the SLIG fun!

Who Doesn't Love Prizes?

 

Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is so very pleased to announce the prizes for SLIG's 2018 contests. More about the contests later, and much more about this year’s prizes below—get ready, get set, and get ready to go enter some contests and win some prizes!

The following prizes will be awarded at the end of the banquet:

• 1 year subscription to FindMyPast and is donated by FindMyPast

• 3 individual DNA kits by MyHeritage

• 1 year complete subscription to MyHeritage donated by MyHeritage

• 3 individual DNA kits awarded by Ancestry

• 2 individual SLC Chef’s Table cookbook with a Visit SLC apron by VisitSaltLake

• Wicked Audio Bluetooth speaker by VisitSaltLake

• Breakfast for two at Trofi restaurant at the Hilton by the Hilton Salt Lake City Center

• 4 individual Early Registration for choice of SLIG2019 OR 2019 Academy

• The choice between either a Detailed Research Plan OR a DNA Analysis (value $350) by LegacyTreeGenealogists. Details below.

The Discovery Plan is a preliminary assessment of a client’s documentation compiled into a detailed research plan. This is ideal for someone who wants to “do the research themselves” but would like guidance from a professional. It is also an excellent way for a client to “test the water” before committing to one of our full-service 20-, 40- or 60-hour genealogy research projects.

The DNA Discovery Plan appeals to both those who have already tested and those who have not. With a taken DNA test, expert genetic genealogists will analyze test results and provide a written explanation of results, including recommendations for additional testing/research to meet the tester's goal(s). If the test has not been taken, the DNA Analysis may be used to create a DNA testing plan, outlining who should test and why to achieve specific research goal(s).

Daily prizes will be given out by the Utah Genealogical Society’s (UGA) DNA Special Interest Group (SIG) at the UGA booth located in SLIG Central. 

Sign up, put your name in the hat, come by and give it a try! It's all about having SLIG fun!

 

Behind the Scenes at SLIG: Caty Peck

This is Caty’s second year working on the SLIG Committee.  Last year she apprenticed on audiovisual (av) under Bret Peterson; this is her first year to head up the audiovisual--besides handling the photography and SLIG logistics for the conference.

Caty Peck is a young woman with many skills. She founded her own photography company, Racing Rain Photography, in 2012 and continues working it to this day; she will be taking the class photos for SLIG this year. With a B.S. in Culinary Management, she puts her degree to use as the Warehouse Manager for an online sales company as well as making wedding and custom cakes plus catering in her spare time.

Genealogy is a passion for Caty. She describes herself as “working avidly in genealogy” for the past five years. During this time, she graduated with a genealogy certificate from Salt Lake Community College, finished Gen Proof 51, Tom Jones’ Mastering Genealogical Proof course, and she is currently working towards her Accredited Genealogist (AG) credential for the New England States Region with ICAPGen. Furthermore, Caty is currently waiting for entry into the ProGen program.

Caty is quick to commend SLIG for helping her “become a better and more well-rounded genealogist.” She loves the things she has learned and the relationships she has formed because of the SLIG experience. She believes that the week of SLIG “is quite possibly one of her favorite weeks in the entire year.”

Even though Draper, Utah has been Caty’s home for more than 20 years, this has not stopped her from traveling to five continents with only Asia and Australia yet to visit. “My grandparents instilled a love of traveling in me at a fairly young age, and we have just kept traveling with them ever since. My grandparents and my whole family traveled to Antarctica together, I traveled with my grandparents to Africa and with my grandmother to Europe twice."

Caty also speaks French. She traveled to France two years ago to meet her French family. Because her great-great grandfather was the only member of his family to leave France and come to America, she has a great deal of extended family still there.

When asked if she could have more hours in her day, Caty replied that she would spend them with her family, because they are her favorite people; she would take that extra time and use it enjoying “more adventures” with them. She is looking forward to a niece joining her family in March.

According to Peg Ivanyo, Director of SLIG, Caty can be found "between and after classes putting up, taking down, and otherwise tweaking [the] audiovisual to make sure we all have a good view of the information our instructors bring us." Caty Peck is be found on all popular platforms, including LinkedIn.

Until next time, the next committee member, and the next Behind the Scenes SLIG 2018 magic!