Check Out These SLIG 2019 Instructors at OGS 2018 Conference!

Please check out our SLIG 2019 course coordinators participating in the upcoming Ohio Genealogical Society’s conference in Columbus, Ohio on April 11^th. – 18^th. Many great topics! Past SLIG instructors will be there too!

J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA

1.     Keynote: Thursday morning “Pistol Packing Grandma”

2.     “Dear Mr. President: Finding Claims and Special Pension Requests”

3.     “Finding Ohio Families (in Western Manuscripts) Who Blazed New Trails”

LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG

1.     WORKSHOP: “Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Ancestors Who Were Enslaved”

2.     “A Critical Step in Evaluating Old Documents”

3.     “Gleaning Genealogical Information about Enslaved Ancestors from the Probate Files of Slaveholding Families”

Rich Venezia

1.     “Pittsburgh Preview: Researching in the Steel City”

2.     “Italians in America: Their Records, Their Stories”

3.     “Emerald Isle Express: Researching Irish Ancestors”

Please check the conference guide for times and room numbers or click here: http://www.ogsconference.org/

Visit www.slig.ugagenealogy.org for more information on our upcoming courses.

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!

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.