Dear Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home, The 2008 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is offering a course just for French Research called "Research of France and her Former Colonies." This course will provide 20 hours of classroom instruction over a week, with afternoons and evenings free to take advantage of researching at the Family History Library, just two blocks away. The classes in this course are: Family History Library Resources Library Workshop Notarial Records Huguenot Research French Switzerland/Old Savoy France--Alsace-Lorraine I France--Alsace-Lorraine II Regional Migration History and Linguistic History France--Archives, Jurisdictions, and Records Overview France--Parish Registers and Paleography France--National Archives and the City of Paris France--Emerging Tools and Internet Resources France--Civil Registration and Paleography France to the New World--400 years of Migration Patterns Research Fundamentals for French-Canadian Family History Research the Census Records of Quebec, 1666-1911 Internet Resources for French-Canadian Family History The Best Secondary Sources for Genealogy Research in Quebec Reading and Interpreting Original Records from Quebec Case Studies in Crossing the Atlantic Instructors for this course include John Phillip Colletta, David Ouimette, Heidi Sugden, Yvette Longstaff, Byron Merrill, Jerry Jaccard, and course coordinator Thomas McGill. You will learn in a week here what it might take years of experience to gain. For more information, or to register, go to www.infouga.org <http://www.infouga.org/> . Thank you, Evva Benson Advertising Chair 2008 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy evvacbenson@yahoo.com Lucie LeBlanc Consentino AFC RootsWeb Administrator Acadian-French-Canadian Mailing List <mailto:ACADIAN-FRENCH-CANADIAN-L-request@rootsweb.com> ACADIAN-FRENCH-CANADIAN-L-request@rootsweb.com Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home <http://www.acadian-home.org/frames.html> www.acadian-home.org/frames.html