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June 8-13, 2008
Director: Della H. Darby Secretary: Eric P. Allen ighr@samford.edu 205-726-IGHR (4447) Samford University Library 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, Alabama 35229 Please send comments and requests about this web site to the Library Web Team © 1994-2007 Samford University |
NOTE: Due to unusally high response, most courses are already full. Those wanting to be added to a waiting list may do so via e-mail by clicking here. Please state the number of the course in which you are interested.
Enrollment Status: 25 of 25 -- FULL Coordinator: Pamela K. Boyer 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. Enrollment Status: 25 of 25 -- FULL 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. Enrollment Status: 25 of 25 -- FULL Coordinator: Carolyn Earle Billingsley 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. Enrollment Status: 25 of 25 -- FULL 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); 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 paper demonstrating skill level in research, documentation and evidence evaluation before April 1, 2008 to: Elizabeth Mills Enrollment Status: 16 of 25 Coordinators:Ann Carter Fleming and Benjamin B. Spratling III This course emphasizes advanced research methods for genealogists in law libraries and government documents. Enrollment Status: 25 of 25 -- FULL 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. Enrollment Status: 23 of 25 -- 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. Enrollment Status: 24 of 24 -- FULL Coordinator: Birdie Monk Holsclaw Designed for genealogists working at the intermediate and advanced levels, this course will explore the analysis and correlation of land records - and related records - in the context of actual research problems. Emphasis will be placed on problem solving and the presentation of the conclusions in final form as a case study, either written or oral. Students will participate in hands-on exercises, analyzing and correlating a variety of documents that solve actual genealogical problems. Lecturers will then present each problem as a case-study lecture, "bringing it all together." In addition, students will outline a case study of their own, using documents from a completed research problem of their own, or a supplied packet. Enrollment Status: 23 of 25 -- Coordinator: Craig R. Scott An in-depth look at the Mexican War and Civil War; the records that were created by the wars and the records that were created after it was over. This course will examine a wide range of records beyond compiled military service records and pensions. Enrollment Status: 21 of 24 Coordinator: David E. Rencher This course is for family historians eager to pursue a coordinated approach to Irish research. Participants learn about records for different periods, online resources that speed up research, and techniques for planning and problem solving. There are several hands-on sessions in a computer lab and in the Samford University Library. Enrollment Status: 30 of 30 -- FULL Coordinator: Frazine K. Taylor This special course helps genealogist trace African-American ancestors through the use of federal, state, local records and lesser used records. This year's course will focus on military records created from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War. Genealogists researching African-Americans too often come up against a brick wall which threatens to end their research. However, with proven methodology and strategy, brick walls can be torn down. |
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Course Offerings -- June 8-13, 2008