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This popular hands-on course returns for a second year, with FamilyTreeDNA again sponsoring the cost of additional lab assistants, color copies, laminated charts, and more. A small additional tuition fee will cover two new features this year: an introductory webinar held several months prior to the course to walk students through the process of downloading […]
You may have heard that SLIG is using a different registration system this year. This post will help you be prepared. In fact, right after reading this, you can log on to sligregistration.ugagenealogy.org (SLIG > Registration > Register) to set up your new “SLIG Registration Account.” This account is separate from any other UGA account that […]
It is always nice to know where one stands. The recent implementation of the GDPR by the European Union brought the need for a more clearly defined privacy policy to our attention. An incident related to respect reminded us that our long-standing expectations needed to be written. And confusion over the cancellation policy dictated that […]
Course Coordinator: Kelvin L. Meyers Instructors: Victor S. Dunn, CG Paul K. Graham, AG, CG Patricia L. Hobbs, CG Angela Packer McGhie, CG Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL Michael L. Strauss, AG Ari Wilkins Description: We all face it: record loss. Whether the courthouse burned, the clerk tossed them, the relative, autograph hunter, lawyer […]
Coordinator: Karen Mauer Jones, CG, FGBS Other Instructors: Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL Richard G. Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA Jane E. Wilcox Description: Research in New York is complicated by its urban-rural extremes and its 400-year, multi-ethnic history. This course tackles those complexities, arming the researcher with […]
Coordinator: F. Warren Bittner, CG Other Instructors: Baerbel Johnson, AG Daniel R. Jones, MS, AG Description: German handwriting is troublesome with seven forms of the letter s, h’s that look like f’s, e’s that look like n’s, p’s that look like nothing ever seen before, and r’s that are just plain upside down. Students will […]
Note: While SLIG doesn’t normally announce courses more than one year in advance, we do wish to note that this course is being carefully coordinated with John Phillip Colletta, PhD, FUGA, whose course on pre-1890 immigration will follow in 2020 to provide a full two-year immigration experience for those who wish to become fully immersed in […]
Instructors: Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL Richard G. Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA Claire Bettag, CG F. Warren Bittner, CG David E. Rencher, AG, CG Description:This course will cover the basic legal concepts and legal research approaches appropriate for genealogists. Topics will include courts and their records, estate laws, legislative records, pensions, land law and […]
Instructors: LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL Deborah Abbott, PhD Michael Hait, CG, CGL Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL Description:2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the first recorded arrival of Africans in an English colony (at Virginia). This anniversary will be commemorated throughout the United States, and SLIG has the opportunity to be at […]
Description: This course develops land-plat skills and the ability to use land plats to solve genealogical problems. Topics include: motivation; reading/abstracting metes & bounds legal land description; hand drawing plats; computer platting; platting over base maps (including USGS); resolving common plat problems (meanders, multiple meanders, imprecise boundary descriptions); constructing connected tract maps; and geo-locating base maps […]