Credentialing: Accreditation, Certification, or Both?
Beach tug of war at Southport, Queensland, Australia, 1917. From the collection of the State Library of Queensland. No known copy [...]
Please Welcome Rebecca Koford as a Board-certified Genealogist
Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG Rebecca Whitman Koford of Mt. Airy, Maryland, earned the credential of Certified GenealogistSM this m [...]
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 Nati [...]
RPAC Report, April and May 2013
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New Books at NGS 2013: Jones on GPS and DeGrazia on NYC
The National Genealogical Society announced two new books at the conference in Las Vegas two weeks ago. © 2013 by the National Ge [...]
Certification: It’s Not All About Writing and Citing
Please welcome guest blogger Elizabeth Shown Mills, CGSM, CGLSM © 2013 by the National Genealogical Society, Inc. Used by permiss [...]
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS: Certification Seminar
Post by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL It was with great pleasure that I, along with Warren Bittner, CG, and David McDonald, CG, p [...]
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 elus [...]
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 t [...]
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 alth [...]
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 migrati [...]