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Welcome, LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, CG!
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson focuses on African American families with roots in the South, primarily the Carolinas, and she gets a great deal of personal satisfaction from helping families with slave an...
Welcome, Fuller "Sonny" Jones, CG
BCG's newest associate came to genealogy twenty years ago after “growing up” with the U.S. space program. A veteran of more than 150 space vehicle launches, Fuller “Sonny” Jones is a retired Nation...
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-retired. In 2015 the Board of Trustees voted to offer this designati...
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 Security Death Index (SSDI)? It comes from a reliable source. Other indexes...
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 you are the subject of the record, i.e., the deceased;[1] entries a...