SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT SLIG’S ADVANCED EVIDENCE ANALYSIS PRACTICUM!
Check out Angela McGhie’s blog, http://genealogyeducation.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-higher-level-of-learning.html, for rave reviews on SLIG’s “Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum” course. Darcie Hind Posz shares her experience from last year. She encourages those that want an “intense genealogical educational experience…[to] accept the challenge and experience the Practicum!” There are also reviews of the course by Corey Browder Oiesen; Harold Henderson, CG; […]
The Utah Genealogical Association is pleased to announce the association awards presented for the year 2012. We are thankful for the service and lasting legacies these people have given to the genealogy community and to the Utah Genealogical Association. Luana Darby was given the Distinguished Service Award for her many years of service to the […]
The UGA South Davis Family History Fair April 19-20 will be at Woods Cross High School. Friday evening’s session will be DENISE MAY LEVENICK, “The Family Curator”, speaker and author of “How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records” The title for her presentation is “Treasures in the […]
The following is a guest post originally posted at Adventures in Genealogy Education. ———————– Researching in Washington D.C. without Leaving Home This is a special post by guest author Pamela Sayre, CG, CGL, on her course “Researching in Washington D.C. without Leaving Home” featured at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. There is still time to […]
Bret Petersen, Suzanne Curley and I gave a presentation at the recent UGA conference entitled “The Cool Parts of Family History-Kids Having Fun” In it I was able to talk about my vision for how family history conferences need to change in the United States and why it is so important to involve youth in […]
Reprinted from The Chart Chick Blog We say that Lincoln, Edison, etc had many spectacular failures and yet we know them to be spectacularly successful. I think as I begin to finish up my 2 year tenure as president of the Utah Genealogical Association, we can see both in the innovative conference that UGA tried […]
1. When did you first start researching your family history? Was there a moment when you knew you were “hooked?” One summer when I was 13 or 14 and whining about having nothing to do, my mother suggested I create a family tree. She had just read an article about it in Family Circle magazine. […]
I am looking forward to learning more about the 2013 SLIG students. We will do some sharing in Course 1, American Research and Records: Focus on Localities. One of the ways I began my research pursuits was visiting the state archives here in Minnesota and devouring the info in finding aids. Then I began ordering […]
1. When did you first start researching your family history? Was there a moment when you knew you were “hooked?” I started researching my family history about 35 years ago. My Aunt had done quite a bit of work on my Mother’s family but we knew nothing about my fathers. He didn’t even know his […]
Teresa Boyer Clark — Hearing the Voices of the Past The transfer of family history, the core of the oral tradition, is approaching extinction. In this hands on workshop participants will learn to excavate and create stories from their family heritage. Tips will be given on lifting the story from the research and sharing through […]