Join us on Sunday for our monthly meeting featuring guest speaker Craig Scott (a.k.a. Krag Mariner in Second Life) who will share a talk titled, “Genealogy Standards: Misinterpretation, Misunderstanding, and Where Researchers Go Wrong.”
WHEN: Sunday, 11 June 2023
TIME: 4:30 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific Time)
WHERE: The Barn SLurl
Description
Have you read Genealogy Standards? How many can you remember? There are 80. Can we talk about the ones you love and the ones you hate? Which ones to you have problems with? Let’s talk about it!
A brief business meeting will be held prior to the speaker’s presentation.
Genealogists of all levels are welcome at our meetings. You do not need to be a member of the SLVGS in order to attend, but we’d love it if you’d join!
About The Speaker
Craig Roberts Scott, MA, CG, FUGA is the author of The ‘Lost Pensions’: Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838 (Revised) and Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, Inventory 14 (Revised). His most recent work is Understanding Revolutionary War and Invalid Pension Ledgers, 1818 – 1872, and the Payment Vouchers They Represent. He has authored seventeen books and several articles in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, and other genealogical publications. He is the President and CEO of Heritage Books, Inc., a genealogical publishing firm with over 9,500 titles in print.
A professional genealogical and historical researcher for more than thirty-five years, he specializes in military records, problem-solving, Quakers, and publishing. He is a member of the Company of Military Historians and on the editorial board of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. He is a former Treasurer and Director of the Association of Professional Genealogists. He has been a faculty member or coordinator of research tracks at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research, Samford University and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, and the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh. He is currently the Coordinator of the SLIG Guided Research and Consultation Track, helping students solve their brick wall problems. He has coordinated many Heritage Books Genealogical Conference and Cruises. He is a recipient of the Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr. Award and the UGA Silver Tray Award. He became a Fellow, Utah Genealogical Association, in 2014.
