In 2020, Celebrate 25 Years with SLIG!

In January 2020, the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) is celebrating 25 years — its silver anniversary — of bringing quality instruction to students to elevate their genealogical education to new heights.

SLIG will be held starting Sunday, January 12th, and concluding with a banquet on Friday, January 17th. The following fifteen courses are available:

• Course 1: Settlers in the New World and Immigrants to a New Nation: Colonial Times to 1900
• Course 2: Guide to Treasures Found in Federal Records
• Course 3: Early US Church Records
• Course 4: Advanced Research Tools: Land Records
• Course 5: Corpus Juris: Advanced Legal Concepts for Genealogy
• Course 6: Virginia from the Colonial Period to the Civil War: Her Records, Her People, Her Laws
• Course 7: Maryland: Researching in the Old Line State
• Course 8: Chinese Ancestry: Research Methods and Sources
• Course 9: Advanced Hispanic Research
• Course 10: Introduction to Genetic Genealogy
• Course 11: Meeting Standards Using DNA Evidence–Research Strategies
• Course 12: Researching Like a Professional
• Course 13: Applying Standards to Appraise Genealogical Work
• Course 14: Advanced Genealogical Methods
• Course 15: Technical Writing for Genealogists 

The Academy will be held the following week, January 19th to the 24th, and the following seven courses are available:

• Academy Course 1: The Art of Writing Client Reports
• Academy Course 2: You’re Invited: Public Speaking from Concept to Delivery
• Academy Course 3: Building and Nurturing a Successful Genealogy Business
• Academy Course 4: DNA for the 21st-Century Professional
• Academy Course 5: Fundamentals of Forensic Genealogy
• Academy Course 6: Writing and Documenting for Peer Review
• Academy Course 7: Project Management Essentials for the Professional Genealogist

Registration for SLIG will open at 9:00 am MDT on Saturday, July 13th, with registration for the Academy opening at 2:00 pm MDT.

To facilitate quick check-out with your course, special events are added to
your registration separately.

Lodging reservations also open on July 13th.