Associates in Action highlights BCG associates’ news, activities, and accomplishments. Contact Alice Hoyt Veen to include your news in an upcoming post.
Awards & Achievements
The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) Trustees has honored Ronald Ames Hill, PhD, CG, and Linda Woodward Geiger, CG, CGL, with Certified Genealogist Emeritus status. BCG offers Emeritus status to board-certified genealogists who have had long and distinguished careers with BCG, and who are now retired from the genealogical profession.
Karen Stanbary, CG, has received the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ) Award for Excellence, 2016, for her article, “Rafael Arriaga, A Mexican Father in Michigan: Autosomal DNA Helps Identify Paternity,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 104 (June 2016), 85–98.
The Board for Certification of Genealogists congratulates the following associates on their successful credential renewals:
Donn Devine, CG, Wilmington, Delaware; initial certification 21 April 1987. donndevine@aol.com
Nancy C. Levin, CG, Natick, Massachusetts; initial certification 1 January 1997. NCLevin1@gmail.com
Daniela Moneta, CG, Phoenix, Arizona; initial certification 20 Februry 2007. Daniela@GenealogyOne-on-One.com; dmoneta@cox.net; http://www.GenealogyOne-on-One.com
Career News
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) has announced the retirement of editor Karen Mauer Jones, CG, and the selection of Laura Murphy DeGrazia, CG, as editor of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (The Record).
Publications
Darcie Hind Posz, CG, The Chicago Stones: A Genealogy of Acquisition, Influence & Scandal (Privately Published: Darcie Hind Posz, 2017). http://darcieposz.weebly.com. The book is available for purchase through Lulu Marketplace: http://www.lulu.com/shop/darcie-hind-posz/the-chicago-stones/paperback/product-23235817.html
Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a new publication, “Pennsylvania Genealogy,” published by The In-Depth Genealogist.This four-page guide has tips for Pennsylvania research, history and migration routes, a bibliography of guide books, and over fifty useful Pennsylvania website links. It is available for digital download or as part of the printed laminated series “In-Brief with IDG.” Website: http://theindepthgenealogist.com/shop-idg/idg-products
