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Certified Genealogist (CG)

 Those who hold this credential have demonstrated their competence in research, analysis, kinship determination, and reporting skills.

Certified Genealogist Lecturer (CGL)

Those who hold this credential have demonstrated their competence in selecting and organizing lecture contents, providing accurate and effective presentations, and using written and visual learning aids.

Certified Genetic Genealogist (CGG)

 Those who hold this credential have demonstrated their competence in using genetic evidence to solve complex genealogical problems while meeting standards for using DNA evidence.

BCG - Why I Became Certified — Kathleen Hinkley (transcript)

 

I'm Kathleen Hinkley and I live in Denver, Colorado. I became certified in 1982 when I was much younger than I am today. I began my professional career by placing an ad in The Genealogical Helper magazine. And in my first year of being a professional, I earned $400. And I decided as a business person that I needed to have credentials in my business life. Certification was the obvious route to take. So I immediately applied for certification and became certified within a year and that has been one of the most important criteria in my professional career. I then went led into doing legal work working for attorneys doing forensic genealogy, and quite often the attorneys want to receive a resume from me and want to know how I am credentialed. That grew into becoming an expert witness, where, again, I'm in court and asked for my credentials. And the certification has been primary for me in developing my career.