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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...
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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...
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, in recognition of more than forty years of noteworthy involvement...
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 has reason to be. The ASG is a prestigious group of leading published...