Marie Varrelman Melchiori, Certified Genealogist Emeritus
BCG offers Emeritus status to a certified person who has had a long and distinguished career with BCG and who is retired or semi-r [...]
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 [...]
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 Certi [...]
News from October 2015 BCG Trustees Meeting
The trustees of the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) met in Salt Lake City on 10 October 2015. Three new trustees joi [...]
If You Don’t Care About Genealogy, Skip This Post
If you do, sign here. Did you know you cannot obtain a death record in Oklahoma during the seventy-five years after a death unless [...]
Gale Williams Bamman, Certified Genealogist Emeritus
In May 2015 Gale Williams Bamman of Cross Plains, Tennessee, was granted BCG’s honorary designation Certified Genealogist Emeritus [...]
Website and Branding for the Twenty-First Century
Request for Proposals The Board for Certification of Genealogists® today issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the redesign of [...]
Darcie Hind Posz, CG, wins ASG Scholar Award
BCG associate Darcie Hind Posz is “over the moon” on winning the 2015 American Society of Genealogists (ASG) Scholar Award. She ha [...]
Free BCG Webinar: Applying Standards to International Research
Tuesday, 20 October 2015, at 8:00 p.m. EDT, Melanie D. Holtz, CG, will present "Applying the Standards to International Research." [...]
Recordings of BCG-Family History Library Lectures
If you were unable to attend the lectures sponsored by BCG and the Family History Library yesterday, you may access recordings of [...]
Respecting the Privacy of DNA Test Takers
By Judy Kellar Fox, CG® We, all of us who take a genetic test or sponsor or manage a test for someone else, have a responsibil [...]
Welcome, Judith A. Herbert, CG
Judith A. Herbert joins BCG associates from mid-coast Maine. Her client work focuses on New York and New England, her areas of gre [...]