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 following associates were recently named among most-frequently viewed Legacy Family Tree Webinars during the month of March:

Tom Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL, “New Standards or Old? Guidelines for Effective Research and Family Histories”

Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, “Are You My Grandpa? Men of the Same Name”

Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL, “Picture This: Images You Can Freely Use”

Karen Stanbary, CG, “Weaving DNA Test Results into a Proof Argument”

Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA, “Introduction to Quaker Genealogy Research”

Cari Taplin, CG, “Home on the Range: Kansas Research Tips”

The Board for Certification of Genealogists congratulates the following associates on their successful credential renewals:

Waunita Gibbons, CG, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; initial certification 3 April 2007. waunitagee@gmail.com

Jason Harrison, CG, Ogden, Utah; initial certification 30 September 2010.  harrisonjb@familysearch.org; ancestraldetective@yahoo.com

Debra S. Mieszala, CG, Libertyville, Illinois; initial certification 18 January 2002. debfamhist@sbcglobal.net; http://advancinggenealogist.com/

David Rencher, CG, Riverton, Utah; initial certification 3 August 2006. rencherde@ldschurch.org

Publications

Harold Henderson, CG, has published the following articles:

“From Fens to Farms: William and Rebecca (Wright) Gedney of Cowbit, Lincolnshire and Lebanon, Illinois,” Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly(Spring 2017): 30-34.

“Yes, Writing Is Compulsory! Here’s How to Make It Work,” Federation of Genealogical Societies Forum 29 (Spring 2017): 18-21.

“One Family’s Nineteenth Century from New York to Chicago to Oregon: Joseph M. and Artamisia Ann (Talcott) Burdick,” Chicago Genealogist 49 (Fall 2016): 3-13.

“The Family of John S. and Zerviah (Hawkins) Porter of Jefferson County and Points West,” [Part 3], New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 147 (October 2016): 272-78.