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BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Pam Eagleson on "Grandma's Treasure Chest: Investigating and Evaluating Family Artifacts"
Please welcome guest blogger Nancy Peters, CGSM Pam Eagleson is an "Attic Archeologist." She knows how to unearth genealogical gems from ordinary family objects. Most family historians realize the ...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Barbara Vines Little on "Understanding What They Wrote: Tricks and Tips for Deciphering the Unintelligible in Documents"
Please welcome guest blogger Judy Kellar Fox, CGSM.
Wearing her trademark hat, Barbara Vines Little speaks Virginia, and she knows early records. She knows them well enough to be wary of ign...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Ronald Hill on "Interpreting the Symbols and Abbreviations in Seventeenth Century English and American Documents"
Please welcome guest blogger Judy Kellar Fox, CGSM.Ronald A. Hill is the gentleman behind the distinctive full white moustache. He brought decades of experience reading and interpreting old Englis...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Thomas Jones on "Debunking Misleading Records"
Please welcome guest blogger Judy Kellar Fox, CGSMThe buzz in Las Vegas is about Thomas W. Jones’ Mastering Genealogical Proof (Arlington, Va.: National Genealogical Society, 2013), just released a...
NGS 2013: On-the-Clock Attendees at Putting Skills to Work
We caught seven people on-the-clock at the BCG Education Fund's Putting Skills to Work preconference workshop yesterday in Las Vegas. The hardworking students were Tim Charmoli, Douglas Dunks, Tina...
BCG Education Fund Workshop: Putting Historical Context and Migration into Your Family History
Yesterday saw the successful completion of another full-day, preconference workshop sponsored by the BCG Education Fund. The Putting Skills to Work event focuses on sound genealogical methodology. ...
"On the Clock" Ribbons Seen at NERGC 2013
BU instructor and the teaching assistants at NERGC 2013At conferences, BCG distributes white "On the Clock" ribbons to those who have filed their preliminary applications. Elissa Scalise Powell, ...
Elizabeth Shown Mills to present Leary Distinguished Lecture at NGS 2013
The BCG Education Fund announced that the 2013 Leary Distinguished Lecturer at the NGS Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, is Elizabeth Shown Mills, CGSM, CGLSM, FASG, NGS, FUGA, who poses a provoca...