SLIG Spring Virtual 2025: Becoming an Accredited Genealogist Professional: The Why, the What, the How

Join Lisa Stokes, AG in her course during SLIG Spring Virtual 2025.

Earning the Accredited Genealogist credential with the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen) provides opportunities to demonstrate your research proficiency in a chosen region. Benefits include strengthened research skills, confidence in performing client work, and respect in the genealogy community.

This interactive, hands-on course will cover the requirements for each ICAPGen accreditation step and give valuable information needed for successful testing. Homework assignments will provide essential skill-building activities. Peer review using ICAPGen rubrics will provide vital feedback to students. A four-hour practice project and a personalized meeting with an AG mentor, knowledgeable in the chosen region of accreditation, will cap off the course. Discover your accreditation readiness as you learn more about the testing process and receive peer and mentor feedback on your work.

Other Instructors

• Alice Childs, AG
• Jana Greenhalgh, AG
• Jenny Hansen, AG
• Torhild Shirley, AG
• Mindy Taylor, AG

This course will be held on Thursdays, 8:30 am–4:30 pm MDT, 27 March through 24 April 2025.

View the complete course schedule here.

Registration for this course and other Spring Virtual 2025 courses opens at 2:00 pm MDT on Saturday, June 22, 2024.

To prepare for registration, create or login to view your account here. 

SLIG 2025: Italian Genealogical Research, Methodologies, and Sources

Join Suzanne Russo Adams, MA, AG in her course during SLIG 2025.

“Open my heart and you will see

Graved inside of it, 'Italy'.”

         – Robert Browning, English playwright and poet

Italy is a land loved by many for its rich history and culture. Although the physical land covering modern day Italy has centuries old history, Italy is a young country made up of many states brought together by the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. This course is designed to help students understand how some of that rich history has shaped the sources and methodologies to research record sources in Italy - civil registration, Catholic parish records, military, and census. Students will learn to recognize, locate, research, and analyze key documents to trace Italian family histories. Topics will also include methodologies used to research in big cities, DNA, Latin, handwriting, notarial records, and emigration. Students will have optional homework assignments to solidify learning.

Other Instructors

• Joel Cole, PMP
• Paola Manfredi, BA
• Ruth Lapioli Merriman, BA, MLS, AG Emeritus
• Paul Woodbury, MEd, AG

Italian Genealogical Research, Methodologies, and Sources will be held virtually during SLIG week January 27 - 31, 2025.

View the complete course schedule here.

Registration for this course and other SLIG 2024 courses opens at 10:00 a.m. MDT on June 22, 2024.

To prepare for registration, create or login to view your account here. 

SLIG 2025: Organizing, Preserving, and Disaster-Proofing Your Family Archive

 Join Annette Burke Lyttle, MA, CG in her course during SLIG 2025.

We all have family archives, whether we think of them that way or not, and as family historians, we often end up as the “keepers of the stuff.” We have papers, digital files, photos, and family keepsakes that need organizing and preserving. We also need ways to collaborate with family members who have items that can be included in our archive and ways to share our family treasures with others. We need a plan for what will happen to it all when we’re gone. Our team of expert instructors will help us think like archivists and give us practical advice on how to organize, preserve, safely store, and share our family archives. We aim for this to be an engaging and interactive course, and students will each have the opportunity for a one-on-one consultation with a faculty member.

Other Instructors

• Melissa Barker
• Laura Kovarik, MUP
• Nancy E. Loe, MA, MLS
• Carol Roberts
• Maureen Taylor

Organizing, Preserving, and Disaster-Proofing Your Family Archive will be held virtually during SLIG week January 27 - 31, 2025.

View the complete course schedule here.

Registration for this course and other SLIG 2024 courses opens at 10:00 a.m. MDT on June 22, 2024.

To prepare for registration, create or login to view your account here.