Accepting SLIG Course Proposals.
The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Director and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Advisory Committee are now accepting proposals for course coordinators for future SLIG courses. The SLIG Advisory Committee will meet this year:10am Tuesday February 1st 201110am Tuesday May 3rd 201110am Tuesday August 2nd 2011 10am Tuesday November 1st 2011The deadlines for submitting […]
by Janet Hovorka This last week I got to see the most amazing conference, from the most amazing perspective. The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is an icon in genealogy conferences for a reason. It isn’t a conference–where you will take a class on this and a class on that, but it is an institute–a […]
As is tradition, the future classes for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy were announced last Friday night at the SLIG closing banquet. However, in a break with tradition, classes were announced not only for the 2012 year, but also for 2013 and 2014. The SLIG team decided to do this so that: We could […]
The UGA board of directors was very pleased last Friday Evening to award Wilma Adkins, our tireless UGA treasurer the 2010 Award of Merit. We had to surprise her with the award or she never would have let us give it to her. As Luana Darby, UGA President 2010 stated, “Wilma is the voice of […]
Paula Stuart-Warren, a talented and engaging teacher as well as meticulous researcher has been awarded the UGA Fellow award. Fellows are awarded “in recognition of living individuals whose distinguished contributions and on-going commitment to the field of genealogy are of national or international scope. This may be evidenced by any combination of publications, teaching and […]
UGA’s Silver Tray award is given “for Scholarly Contributions to the Field of Genealogy. Since 1988 it has traditionally been given for publications efforts.” In 2010 we recognized Thomas W. Jones for his efforts in writing and publishing scholarly articles and most especially for editing the NGSQ and allowing the rest of us to learn […]
If I had skipped the homework discussions, I would have missed the best part of Tom Jones’s class on Advanced Methodology. More than anything else they gave me a new and different sense of what should be going on when you tackle a hard case — or, in one of his favorite metaphors, how you […]
Two blocks from SLIG HQ at the Radisson is the Family History Library, overshadowing our in-class and after-class thoughts. Almost everyone has research work to do at the library, either for themselves, or for paying clients, or both. Our time management revolves around its 8am opening and 9 pm closing (except for Monday, family night, […]
As the week goes on, there’s more happening and less time for non-essentials like blogging and sleeping. And some of what’s going on is, well, secret, like Tom Jones’s mind-bending evidence-evaluation homework assignment. (Just don’t sneak up behind me and say “Spotsylvania,” OK?) Even meals take on lives of their own. Two years ago on […]
I know it’s a good genealogy day when I’m seeing supposedly familiar things in a new light: * indirect evidence (we won’t go there, but it kept me up late!), * the value of fraud and failure (they generated records!), * federal records (I appreciate being encouraged to take another run at these fantastically underutilized […]