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2012 Course Offerings
Registration will open January 17th, 2012.

Attendees choose one course that lasts the entire week. Please click on a course title for faculty/schedule information.

When a course fills a link for its waiting list will be added here and on the main page. Please note that we are unable to take wait list requests via phone.

1. Techniques and Technology

Coordinator: Pamela Boyer Sayre
This course is designed for the new or experienced researcher who seeks a review of fundamentals. Lectures, visuals, hands-on activities, and sessions in a courthouse, library and computer lab introduce the primary records and procedures essential for sound research of American home, local area, county, state, and federal sources.


2. Intermediate Genealogy and Historical Studies

Coordinator: Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
This course is designed for students who have mastered basic record-keeping skills, can properly complete a pedigree, and have conducted extensive research in courthouses and genealogical and historical libraries. This course explores naturalization and immigration research, and court, military, pension and church records.


3. Research in the South, Part I

Coordinator: J. Mark Lowe
This course is designed for the intermediate to advanced researcher. A solid understanding of genealogy basics is required to make use of the materials and concepts presented. Students must have experience in using census, county records, land records and general secondary records. Concepts addressed include migration, settlement patterns, religion, land, geography, politics and economics, kinship groups, and Native Americans.


4. Advanced Methodology and Evidence Analysis

Coordinator: Elizabeth Shown Mills
This course concentrates on problem solving techniques and advanced correlation of evidence for various types of records.

Prerequisites (your choice): completion of IGHR Course 2, Intermediate Genealogy and Historical Studies; completion of the 16-lesson NGS home-study course, American Genealogy ("graded" option, only); completion of the PLCGS program (Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies) from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, University of Toronto; certification by BCG; or accreditation from ICAPGen.

If you do not meet one of the prerequisites but would like to enroll in the advanced course, please submit a research paper demonstrating your skill level in research, documentation and evidence evaluation. Your submission may be a case study, a genealogical narrative, or a biographical sketch -- but not a client report.

ighr@samford.edu
Attn: Course 4

If you choose to submit a work sample for evaluation, in lieu of meeting the class prerequisites, your registration is conditional. Your proposed paper will be promptly evaluated to determine readiness for the class. If the proposed paper has not been received by 1 March, your slot will be released to another qualified applicant. No papers can be accepted for review after 1 March.


5. Writing and Publishing for Genealogists

Coordinator: Thomas W. Jones
This course covers publishing on the Internet, writing articles for publication, organizing book materials, commercial publishing and other pertinent information for genealogical writing and publishing.


6. Advanced Library Research: Law Libraries & Government Documents

Coordinators: Ann Carter Fleming and Benjamin B. Spratling III
This course emphasizes advanced research methods for genealogists in law libraries and government documents.


7. Virginia's Land & Military Conflicts

Coordinator: Barbara Vines Little
This is one of two courses which will look at Virginia records and the law as it applies to those records. Students who are intermediate to advanced will gain the most from this in-depth exploration of specific Virginia record groups.


8. Researching African-American Ancestors

Coordinator: Frazine K. Taylor
This course will focus on the records that were created during slavery, duped the "peculiar institution," in the south, and the records that were created afterwards during the reconstruction period. While each state's experiences with slavery and reconstruction might have been similar, there were also events and instances that created distinct stories and records. Each state had unique laws, revolts, customary practices, and recollected descriptions regarding relationships among slaves, free blacks, white slave owners, and white non-slave owners. For the same reasons, reconstruction-era records are often hard to locate without guidance. This course will help attendees to locate records created in these two periods: Slavery (1522-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1876).


9. Military Records Research III: 1821-1919

Coordinator: Craig R. Scott
An in-depth look at military records from this time period; the records that were created by the wars and the records that were created after they were over. This course will examine a wide range of records beyond compiled military service records and pensions.


10. Tracing Your English Ancestors

Coordinator: Paul Milner
The course is designed to provide an in-depth look at the fundamental sources for English research, then to move beyond them to explore the lesser used sources to both locate and put ancestors into historical context. Participants will have the opportunity to raise and examine their own English research problems.