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Reminder! Register for BCG’s Reisinger Lecture Series: Five Free Lectures on Friday, 20 October 2023
20 October 2023 starting at 9:30 a.m. MDT (11:30 a.m. Eastern, 4:30 pm GMT) Joy Reisinger The Boar [...]
Donald Mosher Award for Colonial Virginia Research Opens 2024 Applications
The BCG Education Fund invites applications for the 2024 Donald Mosher Award, given in recognition o [...]
BCG FREE WEBINAR “Follow the Trail of Records and DNA from Ireland to Oregon (1810–1860)” by Karen Stanbary, CG®
BCG offers free webinar on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 8:00 p.m. EDT A deep dive into the records n [...]
The Board for Certification of Genealogists Welcomes 2023–2024 New and Returning Trustees
The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) congratulates one newly elected and four returning [...]