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BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Dawne Slater-Putt's "Fail! When the Record is Wrong"
© 2013 by the National Genealogical Society, Inc.
Used by permission of the National Genealogical Society
and the photographer, Scott Stewart.
Please welcome guest blogger Harold Henders...
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 history quest. Pat Stamm challenged us to make small changes in our...
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 not a variation that a soundex search could fix. We would expect, ...
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 National Genealogical Society
and the photographer, Scott Stewart....
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 records we are creating now, Judy challenged us to consider how those rec...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Pam Eagleson on "Grandma's Treasure Chest: Investigating and Evaluating Family Artifacts"
Please welcome guest blogger Nancy Peters, CGSM Pam Eagleson is an "Attic Archeologist." She knows how to unearth genealogical gems from ordinary family objects. Most family historians realize the ...
Eric Hedrick Receives 2013 Donald Mosher Memorial Award for Virginia Research
Announcement from the BCG Education Fund:Eric Hedrick is the winner of the 2013 Donald Mosher Memorial Award for his digital publication Historical Documents from Augusta County, Virginia: Judgment...
BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Barbara Vines Little on "Understanding What They Wrote: Tricks and Tips for Deciphering the Unintelligible in Documents"
Please welcome guest blogger Judy Kellar Fox, CGSM.
Wearing her trademark hat, Barbara Vines Little speaks Virginia, and she knows early records. She knows them well enough to be wary of ign...