BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Warren Bittner on "Proof Arguments: How and Why?"
Please welcome guest blogger Judy G. Russell, CGSM, CGLSM If we fail to establish identity and prove relationships, then -- says F. Warren Bittner, CG -- "all other family history goals and activi...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Harold Henderson on "Are We There Yet? Proof and the Genealogy Police"
Please welcome guest blogger Judy G. Russell, CGSM, CGLSM Harold Henderson, CG, an Indiana-based professional genealogist, used a case study involving a disappearing husband from Chicago to drive ...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: David Rencher on "Treasures in the Records of the U.S. Congress"
Please welcome guest blogger Nancy A. Peters, CGSM The story began with a letter from a U.S. Senator to his great-grandmother Charlotte Jensen. The search for meaning and historical context took Da...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Dawne Slater-Putt's "Fail! When the Record is Wrong"
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BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Pat Stamm on "Step Outside Your Genealogical Box: Trying Assorted Records to Reach Research Goals"
We all have routines and habits, from whether we drink a cup of coffee every morning to which books we search first in our family history quest. Pat Stamm challenged us to make small changes in our...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: David Ouimette on "Overcoming Spelling Problems and Unlocking the Power of Names"
David Ouimette has good reason to explore name variations. He can find his ancestors under the spelling Ouimette and Wemet. That's not a variation that a soundex search could fix. We would expect, ...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Elizabeth Mills on "Information Overload? Effective Project Planning, Research, Data Management, and Analysis"
Please welcome guest blogger Harold Henderson, CGSM
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BCG Luncheon at NGS 2013: Judy Russell on "Blackguards and Black Sheep: The Lighter Side of the Law"
Please welcome guest blogger Diane Gravel, CGSM. Inviting the audience to take a moment to think about the police and court records we are creating now, Judy challenged us to consider how those rec...