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Application Guide | Standards Guides | Research and Sources Guides
Professional Guides and Directories | Journals | Lecture Recordings

APPLICATION GUIDE

Board for Certification of Genealogists. The BCG Application Guide. Washington, D.C.: BCG, 2005.

STANDARDS GUIDES

Board for Certification of Genealogists. The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual. Orem, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, for the Board, 2000.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown, CG, CGL, FASG. Evidence! Explained - Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace . Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown, CG, CGL, FASG. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997.

———, ed. Evidence: A Special Issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 3 (September 1999).

Curran, Joan F., CG; Madilyn Coen Crane; and John H. Wray, Ph.D., CG. Numbering Your Genealogy: Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin. NGS Special Publication no. 64. Arlington: National Genealogical Society, 1999.

RESEARCH AND SOURCES GUIDES

Greenwood, Val. D., AG. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. 3d edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000.

Hinckley, Kathleen W., CG. Locating Lost Family Members & Friends: Modern Genealogical Research Techniques for Locating the People of Your Past and Present. Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 1999. (Twentieth century research.)

Jacobus, Donald Lines, FASG. Genealogy as Pastime and Profession. 2d rev. edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986.

Leary, Helen F. M., CG, CGL, FASG, ed. North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History. 2d edition. Raleigh: North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1996. (The first section, in particular, applies to research outside North Carolina.)

Merriman, Brenda, CG, CGL. About Genealogical Standards of Evidence: A Guide for Genealogists. 2d ed. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 2004.

Rose, Christine, CG, CGL, FASG. Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case. 2d ed. San José, California: CR Publications, 2005.

Rose, Christine, CG, CGL, FASG, and Kay Germain Ingalls, CG. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy. 2nd ed. New York: Alpha Books, 2005.

Rubincam, Milton, CG, FASG. Pitfalls in Genealogical Research. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1987.

Szucs, Loretto D., and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, eds. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. 3rd edition. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 2006.

PROFESSIONAL GUIDES AND DIRECTORIES

Association of Professional Genealogists. APG Directory.

Board for Certification of Genealogists. Certification Roster.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown, CG, CGL, FASG, ed. Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001. See especially Joy Reisinger, CG, "The Essential Library": 59–82.

JOURNALS

LECTURE RECORDINGS

  • Digital recordings of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) conference lectures are available through Lulu.com.


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