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Winner of the SLIG Foundations Scholarship!
- June 5, 2026
- Posted by: Melody Daisson
- Category: Uncategorized

My name is Emuron Daniel from Uganda. I am a Family History Consultant and FamilySearch Center Coordinator in the Jinja Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am a subscribing member of the Cultural Research Center Diocese of Jinja Uganda.
I am actively involved in family history training/ activities and community-centered genealogy initiatives, helping individuals and families understand the importance of connecting with their ancestors and preserving family records. I also enjoy teaching about the relationship between African oral traditions, storytelling, and modern family history work.
Receiving this scholarship is a meaningful opportunity for me to expand my knowledge and contribute more effectively to genealogy and family history efforts within my community, Uganda, and beyond.
About the Scholarship:
The Virtual Intermediate Foundations course was developed specifically for SLIG in 2019 with the “beyond beginning, but not quite intermediate” level researcher in mind. That awkward place so many researchers go through, where in spite of years of research and a variety of educational experiences, they have only truly mastered the basics. They dabble with more intermediate record sets, but not sufficiently to incorporate them into their work on a regular basis. They attempt more difficult research challenges, but without resolution. They desire to produce high quality, reliable research, but fear what they may have missed, or don’t yet know. They sense there are gaps. And they try desperately to fill them through a variety of educational means without feeling success.
What is really needed is a progressional, in-depth, planned curriculum. This course was built specifically for people in this situation! And in 2024 it was expanded into a two-part series that will allow the student to plumb each of the topics previously addressed in even more depth:
- Foundations: The Research Method
- Foundations: Methods and Records
The Foundations Scholarship was created to help one of those individuals described above successfully fill the gaps and build the strong foundation necessary to further their research. To help them prepare for further in-depth education in the future. Without the cost of tuition.