Search SpringBoard
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 they migrate? Where did they live? The term "geographical informatio...
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 although she asserted that it was created long before the schedule was ...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Barbara Mathews on "Not Quite Right: Recognizing Errors"
© 2013 by the National Genealogical Society, Inc.
Used by permission of the National Genealogical Society
and the photographer, Scott Stewart.
Please welcome guest blogger ____, CGSM No,...
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 migration, the Emigrant Guides. They could be published in English or in t...
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 genealogists?
Family historians?
Hobbyists?
All of the above!
...
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 F. Warren Bittner, CG -- "all other family history goals and activi...
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 case study involving a disappearing husband from Chicago to drive ...
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 Charlotte Jensen. The search for meaning and historical context took Da...