Gena and Jean at the Salt Lake Institute Of Genealogical Studies

It's about time to start planning for SLIG 2017! What's SLIG? The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogical Studies is a week long genealogical institute offered by the Utah Genealogical Association. SLIG primarily offers high-intermediate to advanced-level courses, with some intermediate courses geared to strengthen the core understanding of the research process. 

Gena and Jean are passionate about social history and SLIG provides you the chance to spend a week with us (and others) discussing and learning about this important topic.

Join Gena and Jean in January 2017 for the course Adding Social History to Your Genealogy

Genealogy research is often relegated to the dates and places of our ancestor’s lives. However, when we focus solely on names, dates, and places we miss out on rich details that tell a story and also lead to additional documents. In the course of learning more about everyday lives we uncover resources that are not utilized by genealogists. This course will look beyond the typical genealogy sources and concentrate on ways that genealogists can bring their ancestors to life. This course will assist genealogists to understand historical resources available for genealogical research; provide information about repositories that can provide documents that detail an ancestor’s community; teach ways to combing history with genealogy; provide background into our ancestor’s lives; explain ways to include social history with our genealogical narrative; and help students better understand the unique experiences of women, children and immigrant ancestors.

Prerequisites: Must have knowledge of basic genealogy research techniques and be able to understand the basics of what is involved in a reasonably exhaustive Internet search.

Registration begins July 9th! Consider joining us as part of your genealogical education goals!