Focus on Education

or “There Is Always Something New to Learn!”

Climbing your family tree is more than plucking names and dates off the Internet. Those names and dates are great clues, but the search for more information isn’t always easy. That’s where SBCGS comes to the rescue – to help you make the “climb” easier!

Here’s What We Offer (all open to the public)

Fun, informative monthly meetings with prominent speakers
Intriguing special interest groups like ones on the Civil War, German Genealogy, Beginning Genealogy, Computers & Genealogy, and the tool-of-the-future: DNA
An all-day seminar featuring top-notch speakers
Free adult education courses for beginners and experienced alike
A group tour to Salt Lake City for genealogical research in the Family History Library
Nearly 30,000 items housed in our renowned Sahyun genealogical research library
Workshops held during Family History Month and throughout the year
Opportunities to get to work together with other members on community research projects

Genealogy is fun! Check out these special educational opportunities:

The Computer Genealogy Group, German Ancestry Group, Civil War Special Interest Group, Writers Interest Group, and DNA Study Group. See this page for more information on each group.

SEMINAR 2011

Information will be posted here.

ADULT EDUCATION Register online at http://www.sbcc.edu/adulted/. Registration for Genealogy classes begin at 8:00 a.m. on date to be posted later. If there are other classes you want to view now, you can do so http://sbcc.augusoft.net/. For current summer 2010 classes, click here for Adult Ed.

SALT LAKE CITY TOUR
Scheduled for May 25 to June 1, 2011. See here for more information

SBCGS RESEARCH PROJECTS
Contact project leader for more information and to volunteer to help on the project.

CD ROM PROJECT BACKGROUND:
SBCGS currently has over 600 CDs. These CDs all require special programs to read the data on the CDs. We have tried to make each CD so it will automatically open when installed into a computer at the library. We have procured CDs over a period of approximately ten years and many of the programs change and are updated and subsequently the older CDs may not open automatically. On the newer CD, from about serial number 500, we have attached labels on the CDs with instructions on what to do if the CD does not open.

PROJECT 1:
1. Determine what program is required to automatically open the CD.
2. Create labels for all CDs which will include the Name & Serial Number & Call Numbers plus instructions on what to do if the CD does not automatically open.
3. Test the completed CD in all SBCGS computers to verify it automatically opens.
Project Leader: Jim Friestad (RonJim@cox.net) Estimated hours for completion – 300 to 400 Hours