PMC, SLIG, and Jamboree!

Hi all,
Just got back from back-to-back conferences in Salt Lake City, attending the Professional Management Conference (PMC), hosted by the APG, and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG).

The PMC is a two-day event preceding SLIG. Great workshops on every new professional genealogist should know about--including networking, writing business plans, writing narratives for clients, and protecting your reputation. Speakers included Harold Henderson, J. Mark Lowe, Judy G. Russell (aka the Legal Genealogist), and Angela Packer McGhie.

SLIG: this was my second year at SLIG. This year, I enrolled in Tom Jones' Advanced Genealogical Methods. This is one of those institute courses in which registration sells out in less than 10 minutes. So, if you're planning to take this course in the future (at SLIG, GRIP or at IGHR in Samford), you have to act VERY fast. I'm glad I did. Tom puts his students through their paces--six+ hours a day, five days a week, of lectures plus homework. This year's SLIG inside joke was that Tom's students are never to be seen--they're too busy doing homework! And it was true--every evening I was in my hotel room working on assignments, rather than heading to the Family History Library to do my own personal research.

Both PMC and SLIG will return next January. SLIG is scheduled for the week of January 12-16, 2015, and PMC will occur just beforehand--probably the 9th and 10th of January. Both will take place at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City, about a block or so from the Family History Library.
Information about the PMC will be found at the APG website (www.apg.org).
Information about the 2015 SLIG will found at http://www.infouga.org/cpage.php?pt=42

JAMBOREE
The Southern California Genealogical Society is hosting its annual Jamboree convention, in Burbank, California, on June 6-8. They will also have a separate one-day DNA conference on Thursday, June 5th. Registration for both is now open--and no need to rush like one needs to for Tom Jones' Advanced Methodology classes!
Jamboree is easy to get to--fly into Burbank Airport, and walk (or shuttle) across the street to the Marriott Hotel in Burbank.

Registration at http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/.  Hope to see you there!