SLIG Fall Virtual 2022: Record Loss: Overcoming Destroyed, Missing or Non-Extant Records; Sources and Techniques/Methods
What do you do when the records you need to answer your research question are not there? Few experiences frustrate genealogists more frequently or intensely than discovering that records are missing. The reasons for missing documents are many: burned courthouse; clerks tossing …
The Fast-Growing Field of Forensic Genealogy
Come explore your potential role in the fast-growing field of forensic genealogy with Catherine B. W. Desmarais, CG and her instructor team, including: Angie Bush, MS Kelvin L. Meyers Michael S. Ramage, JD, CG The instructors—all who are all experienced, practicing forensic …
Early U.S. Church Records …
can be essential to resolving genealogical problems! Church registers can be a substitute for missing vital records; they can also serve as correlating evidence when working with multiple indirect resources to construct and document a genealogical project. The course will examine both the …
The Fundamentals of Forensic Genealogy
Come explore your potential role in the fast-growing field of forensic genealogy with Catherine B. W. Desmarais, CG and her instructor team, including: Angie Bush, MS Kelvin L. Meyers Michael S. Ramage, JD, CG The instructors—all who are all experienced, practicing forensic …
Does your research need substitutes for missing vital records?
If so, this course may provide you with information you need to do that! Church registers can be a substitute for missing vital records; they can also serve as correlating evidence when working with multiple indirect resources to construct and document a …
Record Loss only in the South? Think Again!
I used to think of “record loss” as being related to “burned counties” and a “Southern” researcher’s problem. I was wrong on both counts. As this map of the United States published by FamilySearch will attest, fires were not limited to the …
SLIG 2019 – Course 13: Burned Counties and More!
All genealogists face record loss at some time or another due to researching in a burned county. But record loss is not just a result of fire. There are other disasters, intentional or otherwise, that can lead to missing records. That discovery …
SLIG 2019 Course Highlight: Advanced Southern Research and Sources
Coordinator & Instructor: J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA Additional Instructors: Deborah A. Abbott, PhD Kelvin L. Meyers Anne Gillespie Mitchell Ari Wilkins Description: This course will address more advanced methods in Southern research and look at lesser-known records and resources that can aid …
SLIG 2017 Instructors in Texas
Are you going to the Texas State Genealogical Society 2016 Family History Conference this month in Dallas? I hope you are because SLIG has three outstanding 2017 instructors that will be there. Cyndi Ingle, Kelvin L. Meyers, and Judy G. Russell, JD, …