Recent News Articles
The following announcement was written by the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG):
January 18, 2022 Beth A. Stahr, CG Using Historical Fiction and Social History to Support Your Narrative
February 15, 2022 Alice Hoyt Veen, CG It Goes with the Territory! Find Your Ancestors in Pre-Statehood Records March 15, 2022 David Rencher, CG, AG, FUGA, FIGRS Identifying Unnamed Free Born African Americans – A DNA Case Study April 19, 2022 David Ouimette, CG, CGL Proving Parentage Two Centuries Later Using DNA Evidence May 17, 2022 Mark A. Wentling, MLS, CG Five Wives & A Feather Bed: Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Resolve Conflicting Claims June 21, 2022 Denise E. Cross, MSLIS, CG Negative Evidence: Making Something Out of Nothing July 19, 2022 Carolyn L. Whitton, CG Ancestors' Religions in the U.S. August 16, 2022 Jennifer Zinck, CG Finding Fayette's Father: Autosomal DNA Reveals Misattributed Parentage September 20, 2022 Julie Miller, CG, CGL Abstracting Documents: An Essential Skill for All Genealogists October 18, 2022 Pam Stone Eagleson, CG Misled by Records: Identifying Adam Cosner's Parentage November 15, 2022 Nicole Gilkison LaRue, CG Their Mark Here: Signatures and Marks as Identifying Tools December 20, 2022 Anne Morddel, CG French Emigrants: They Were Not All Huguenots, or Nobles, or From Alsace-Lorraine
“We are pleased to present these high-quality educational webinars,” said President LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL, FASG. “The Board for Certification of Genealogists promotes public confidence in genealogy by supporting uniform standards of competence. We strive to provide educational opportunities to family historians of all levels of experience.”
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