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Free BCG Webinar: “Do You Have the Reflexes You Need to Become Certified?”

Tuesday, 17 November 2015, at 8:00 p.m. EDT, Harold Henderson, CG, will present “Do You Have the Reflexes You Need to Become Certified?” A recording of this webinar is available for a small fee from Vimeo. UPDATE: See the BCG Library at Legacy Family...

Free BCG Certification Webinar

9, 2014, at 2 PM Eastern (1 PM Central, Noon Mountain, 11 AM Pacific, 6 PM GMT) as a part of the Legacy Family Tree Webinar series. "Thinking about Becoming a Board-certified Genealogist?" will present the "why" and "how" of the certification...

Free BCG-Sponsored Webinar - June 16, 2026

BCG’s next free monthly webinar, in conjunction with Legacy Family Tree Webinars, is “Mastering Data Collection” by Jill Morelli, CG®, CGL® Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 8:00 p.m. (EDT) As genealogists, a foundation of our work lies in the careful collection...

Free Webinar Lecture Series

The second webinar sponsored by BCG is on Wednesday, October 15 at 8 pm Eastern. Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL, will present "Kinship Determination: From Generation to Generation." To register and receive your unique link to the webinar, please go to...

Free BCG Webinar on Reliability and Reasoning

Michael Ramage, JD, CG, “Reliability: The Keystone of Genealogical Reasoning, with Judicial Comparisons” was presented 15 December 2015. A recording is now available from Vimeo, here. UPDATE: See the BCG Library at Legacy Family Tree Webinars for...

Free BCG Webinar: Baker on Finding Your Early 1800s US Ancestors Online

The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) will present “Finding Your Early 1800s US Ancestors Online,” a webinar by James M. Baker, PhD, CG, free to the public at 8:00 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, 19 April 2016. This presentation describes strategies to...

FREE BCG WEBINAR “Visualizing Information for Genealogists,” by Margaret R. Fortier, CG®

You have slaved over your client report. You have delved into the data, mined it for every iota of information, you have examined and evaluated your sources, analyzed and correlated your evidence, resolved any conflicts, and carefully crafted a...

FREE BCG WEBINAR “The Five-Story Fall: Correlating Indirect and Direct Evidence to Extend the Pedigree,” by Debbie Mieszala, CG®

Johanna (Daly) Mahoney plunged to her death in 1883, taking her parents’ and siblings’ identities along. Tracking and analyzing associates over three generations in American, English, and Irish records, led to a hypothesis about Johanna’s identity,...

FREE BCG WEBINAR, “Valid and Unsound Assumptions: What Was She Thinking?” by Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG®

The search for the deceased husband of Elizabeth Larzalere, enumerated in 1820 with four young children, leads to unexpected results and to new questions. This case study demonstrates how challenging valid assumptions and unsound assumptions reveals...

BCG FREE LIVE WEBINAR, “Civil Law Concepts and Genealogy,” by Claire Bettag, CG®

LIVE WEBINAR ONLY on Tuesday, 17 September 2019, at 8 p.m., U.S. Eastern Daylight Time Civil law—as opposed to common law—is a legal system that governs private relationships and interactions in most non-English speaking countries. Rooted in principles...

BCG FREE WEBINAR “Discover the Holdings of German Archives,” by Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, CG®

BCG offers Free Webinar on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 8 pm EST German archives hold many records valuable for expanding our genealogical research. Church records that are not available digitally may be waiting in the archives. State and local archives may...

BCG Offers Free Webinar: "Civil Law Notaries: Using Notarial Records to Build a Family History" by Melanie D. Holtz, CG

BCG OFFERS FREE WEBINAR Tuesday, November 15, 8:00 p.m. Eastern “Civil Law Notaries: Using Notarial Records to Build a Family History” by Melanie D. Holtz, CG Notarial records—legal documents created by civil law notaries—are a valuable resource in...

BCG Offers Free Webinar: “Writing Up Your Research” by Michael J. Leclerc, CG

BCG OFFERS FREE WEBINAR Tuesday, 17 January, 8:00 p.m. Eastern “Writing up your Research” by Michael J. Leclerc, CG Writing up our research is the best way to preserve it. This presentation will examine different ways of writing and publishing, from...

BCG Offers Free Webinar: “MAXY DNA: Correlating mt-at-X-Y DNA with the GPS” by Debbie Parker Wayne, CG, CGL

BCG OFFERS FREE WEBINAR Tuesday, 16 May, 8:00 p.m. Eastern “MAXY DNA: Correlating mt-at-X-Y DNA with the GPS” by Debbie Parker Wayne, CG, CGL MAXY DNA includes mitochondrial DNA (M), autosomal DNA (A), X-DNA (X), and Y-DNA (Y). Case studies demonstrate...

BCG Offers Free Webinar: “Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard” by David Ouimette, CG, CGL

BCG OFFERS FREE WEBINAR Tuesday, 17 October, 8:00 p.m. Eastern “Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard” by David Ouimette, CG, CGL With billions of indexed records available online, what methodologies should the researcher...

BCG Offers Free Webinar: “When Does Newfound Evidence Overturn a Proved Conclusion” by Tom Jones, PhD, CG, CGL

BCG OFFERS FREE WEBINAR Tuesday, 19 September, 8:00 p.m. Eastern “When Does Newfound Evidence Overturn a Proved Conclusion?” by Tom Jones, PhD, CG, CGL Even thorough research can miss relevant sources. What are the options when useful information or...

FREE BCG WEBINAR, “Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands,” by Yvette Hoitink, CG®

Tuesday, 16 July 2019, at 2 p.m., U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A DIFFERENT TIME THAN MOST BCG WEBINARS. The Netherlands has excellent records. Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began in 1811, and churches kept...

BCG FREE WEBINAR - The Advance of Research Habits over Recent Decades—and the Downside by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG®, FASG, FNGS, FUGA

BCG offers free webinar on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 8:00 p.m. (EDT) The Internet, other technological advances, indexing projects, and DNA testing have revolutionized how genealogists conduct research. Have they also promoted counterproductive...

BCG Webinar presenters in the Top 40 of 2025

We are pleased to congratulate several BCG Webinar Series presenters whose programs were recognized among Legacy Family Tree Webinars’ Top 40 most-watched webinars of 2025: • "The Everleigh Sisters: A Case Study in Conflict Resolution" — Karen...

BCG FREE WEBINAR “A Convincing Argument or a Convoluted Mess,” by Barbara Vines Little

BCG offers Free Webinar on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 8 pm EST As any trial lawyer (or critical reader) will tell you presentation is an important part of any evidence argument. Thus an argument that includes proper grammar, is tightly written, and...

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