Ten-Minute Methodology: How to Ask Good Research Questions
SpringBoard is pleased to present a guest post by Harold Henderson, CG , a Trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Documentation and the Research Report
Some genealogists have been confused about whether to include source citations in research report introductions and summaries. Spr [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Beyond the Index—or Not
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® Our goal, supported by genealogy standards, is to use whenever possible original records and primary i [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: When Index is a “Dirty Word”
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® Genealogical work supported by indexes alone can be unreliable. What? What’s wrong with the Social Sec [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: “Reasonably Exhaustive”—How Do We Know We’re There?
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® Evaluating what we've done There comes a time when we have to stop researching. Sometimes it’s when we [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: What Is “Reasonably Exhaustive” Research?
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® Let’s look at the searching part of research. As in the last post on research, we’ll see that it’s mor [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Are You Searching or Researching?
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® Are you up to date? From the old Standards Manual to the new Genealogy Standards the first component o [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Identity Proof in a List
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® We’ve seen in earlier posts what genealogical proofs look like in a narrative and a footnote. A list, [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Proof in a Footnote
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® A genealogical proof can be as simple and compact as a footnote. Yes! Believe it. The standards guide [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Proof in a Narrative
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® Proofs don’t have to be complicated, and they don’t have to resolve conflicting evidence. They don’t h [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Proof Summaries and Arguments 1
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® This post is part of an occasional series intended to educate and challenge BCG associates, aspirants, and [...]
Ten-Minute Methodology: Proof Statements 2, Examples
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® This post is part of an occasional series intended to educate and challenge BCG associates, aspirants, [...]