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 [...]
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Elissa Scalise Powell on “Baker’s Dozen Steps to Writing Research Reports”
Who should be writing research reports? Elissa Scalise Powell, CGSM, CGLSM, gave the audience four choices: Professional genealogi [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Char [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 © 2013 by the National Genealogical Society, Inc. Used by permission of the N [...]
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 record [...]