TIGR 2023 Coordinator: Catherine Desmarais, CG®
Format: Virtual, pre-recorded, and live lectures. Daily, live Q&A.
Maximum Registrants: 40
Description:
Come explore your potential role in the fast-growing field of forensic genealogy. The instructors – all experienced, practicing forensic genealogists – will introduce students to a broad spectrum of topics. Classes each day will be spent exploring business practices, work products, and skill development, and also the types of work in which forensic genealogists engage. Homework and social media discussions between sessions will enhance the learning process. Students will develop the fundamental skills needed to establish or strengthen their own forensic genealogy practice.
Faculty:
Catherine Desmarais, CG®, Coordinator
Angie Bush, MS
Michael S. Ramage, JD, CG®
Kelvin L. Meyers
CeCe Moore
Schedule Course 4 – “Fundamentals of Forensic Genealogy”
| Start Time (Central Time) |
Topic | Instructor |
| Monday, June 12, 2023 | ||
| 9:30 AM | Welcome | Desmarais |
| 10:00 AM | From Inquiry to Affidavit: Managing a Forensic Case | Desmarais |
| 11:30 AM | Resources to Identify Living People | Bush |
| 12:45 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:15 PM | Missing and Unknown Heirs: Law and Procedure for the Forensic Genealogist | Ramage |
| 2:45 PM | Real Estate Cases for the Forensic Genealogist | Ramage |
| Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | ||
| 9:30 AM | Homework Review | Desmarais |
| 10:00 AM | Business Considerations for the Forensic Genealogist | Ramage |
| 11:30 AM | Forensic Genealogy Fees and Contracts/Ethnics & Liability | Ramage |
| 12:45 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:15 PM | Finding Families: The Genealogist’s Role in MIA/POW Repatriation | Desmarais |
| 2:45 PM | Solving Unknown Parentage Cases with DNA | Bush |
| Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | ||
| 9:30 AM | Homework Review | Ramage |
| 10:00 AM | Writing the Forensic Genealogy Client Report | Desmarais |
| 11:30 AM | Writing Reports for the Adoptee | Bush |
| 12:45 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:15 PM | Natural Resources and Mineral Rights Cases | Meyers |
| 2:45 PM | Other Types of Forensic Work: Guardianships, Unclaimed Persons, Immigration, and More | Meyers |
| Thursday, June 15, 2023 | ||
| 9:30 AM | Homework Review | Desmarais |
| 10:00 AM | True and Correct to the Best of Her Knowledge: Affidavits for the Forensic Genealogist | Desmarais |
| 11:30 AM | Family Relationship Charts and Supporting Exhibits | Desmarais |
| 12:45 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:15 PM | Genealogy Standards and Forensic Genealogy | Ramage |
| 2:45 PM | Investigative Genetic Genealogy as a Career | Moore |
| Friday, June 16, 2023 | ||
| 9:30 AM | Homework Review | Desmarais |
| 10:00 AM | Where Does the Evidence Lead? The Forensic Genealogist as Expert Witness | Meyers |
| 11:30 AM | “Ask the Forensic Genealogist” Panel Discussion | Desmarais, Bush, Ramage |
| COURSE ENDS | ||
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