The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (that’s SLIG for short)
will be holding their annual genealogical institute on January 23-27, 2012. Five day courses are offered in tracks and
taught by some of the best educators in the field of genealogy. (Oh, I wish I were planning to go!) It is definitely
on my list of genealogical institutes to attend “sometime”. Samford’s IGHR is another institute I hope to
attend.
While I have no current plans to go, I put together my top
three choices for course tracks for if I did go. I would put Course 8: Beyond
the Library: Using Original Source Repositories being taught by John
Colletta. Over the past few months I
have researched in rural county courthouses and discovered this has become one
of my favorite ways to research. I would like to learn more about using other
original source repositories. (I have also
never taken a class by John Colletta that wasn’t great!)
Course 10: Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum taught by
Angela McGhie would be a wonderful course to take. As a genealogist, one can never get enough “hands
on” analysis practice. Being able to
talk it through with other genealogists can prove to be very helpful.
A few years ago I attended the NCGS (North Carolina
Genealogical Society) Fall workshop on using land records. I was fortunate to hear Rick Sayre present
several lectures on this subject. I was just starting
out and learned so much those two days.
He and his wife Barbara Sayre will be teaching Course 11: Advanced
Research Tools: Land Records. This is an
area I would like to strengthen my skills.
Those would be my top three choices if I were actually going
to SLIG 2012. (A girl can dream, can’t
she?) Actually all of the course tracks
look fantastic. To pick three favorites,
much less just one to actually attend would prove difficult.
To find out more information about SLIG, check out their
website at www.slig.ugagenealogy.org
. If you are a blogger and would like to participate in SLIG's blog contest you can find the rules here.
I was at the NCGS conference with Rick Sayre too. Learned a lot too. I began following you because you are in North Carolina.
ReplyDelete