NGS 2013 Recordings Now Available for Online Ordering
JAMB-Inc's recording from NGS 2013 are now available for online ordering.The company has transferred its recordings from the National Genealogical Society's 2013 conference to the online ordering s...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS: Certification Seminar
Post by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGLIt was with great pleasure that I, along with Warren Bittner, CG, and David McDonald, CG, presented a double-session for the certification ...
BCG Ed Fund Leary Distinguished Lecture: Elizabeth Mills on "Can Trousers, Beds, and Other 'Trivial Details' Solve Genealogical Problems?"
Please welcome guest blogger Diane Gravel, CGSM. As genealogical researchers, we routinely pore through records in pursuit of elusive ancestors, grabbing at apparent minutia, anything that might gi...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Richard Sayre on "Genealogical Applications of Historical Geographical Information Systems"
Putting historical context into our family stories is impossible until we know the geography of their lives. Over what paths did they migrate? Where did they live? The term "geographical informatio...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Pamela Boyer Sayre on "Enough is Enough! Or Is It?"
Pam Sayre's lecture took place in the last time slot of the last day of the convention. The title certainly fit the time slot although she asserted that it was created long before the schedule was ...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Barbara Mathews on "Not Quite Right: Recognizing Errors"
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BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Julie Miller on "Using Emigrant Guides for Genealogical Research"
Today Julie Miller, CGSM, opened my eyes to a whole group of sources that I had missed in documenting my family's westward migration, the Emigrant Guides. They could be published in English or in t...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Elissa Scalise Powell on "Baker's Dozen Steps to Writing Research Reports"
Who should be writing research reports? Elissa Scalise Powell, CGSM, CGLSM, gave the audience four choices:
Professional genealogists?
Family historians?
Hobbyists?
All of the above!
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