Some Thoughts on SLIG 2019
I have some thoughts about SLIG 2019. Since I returned home, I've been so intent on what I learned at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), that it's taken a bit to process [...]
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Feb 2019
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Jan 2019
Finding My Prussian 5G-Grandparents at SLIG 2019
Finding my Prussian 5G-Grandparents at SLIG 2019 caused a huge happy dance. The SLIG 2019 German class taught me how to translate entries in a key German resource: the 219-volume Deutsches Geschlechterbuch, (more commonly known [...]
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Jan 2019
Fun with German Genealogy at SLIG 2019
It's time for fun with German genealogy at SLIG 2019. You say you wanted to learn from the estimable Herr Lehrer Warren Bittner, but you couldn't make it to SLIG? What are my fellow masochists [...]
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Jan 2019
SLIG 2019 Reading Gothic Script and Fraktur
The SLIG 2019 Reading Gothic Script and Fraktur class is my first genealogy treat to myself of the new year. I've never had a head for languages. I believe my French professor in college [...]