Free Board for Certification of Genealogists Sponsored 2024 Webinars

Registration for the Board for Certification of Genealogists’ (BCG) twelve monthly webinars in 2024 is now live at its partner website Legacy Family Tree Webinars. (https://familytreewebinars.com/upcoming-webinars/?category=visit-www-bcgcertification-org).   BCG Upcoming Webinars Dates, topics, and speakers are shown below: 16 Jan 2024 Shannon Green, CG “The Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS): A Review” 20 Feb 2024 Jerry Smith, […]

Native American recognition in a movie and at the Golden Globes, Lily Gladstone!

Have you had the opportunity to watch the movie, Killers of the Flower Moon? It is based on a true story about the discovery of oil on Osage Nation Land in Oklahoma. Members of the Osage Nation were being murdered, many involved in supposedly trying to solve the murders were not honest, and finally the […]

It’s time! 2024 Legacy Family Tree Webinars registration is now open!

Registration is now open for an amazing year of genealogical presentations with topics for the U.S., Canada, and other countries. 112 speakers for 2024 from 14 countries! Education from the comfort of your own desk or easy chair. Do you know a lot about genealogy research and records? I bet you don’t know everything and […]

News update on GRIP (GRIP Genealogy Institute) for 2024

More genealogical education planning for your 2024 calendar! The coming year’s edition of GRIP will feature one week of courses online in June and in July an in-person lineup of courses in Pittsburgh. View the course titles for each week at https://grip.ngsgenealogy.org/. In case you haven’t heard yet, the founding directors of GRIP, Debbie Lichtner […]

2024 peek at Legacy Family Tree Webinar presenters: genealogy galore!

I hope you have your Legacy Family Tree Webinar membership ready to go for 2024. Today they released the photos of the big lineup of 2024 speakers. The speakers are in alphabetical order by first name. I follow Paul and Paul and am followed by Paula. As always, that makes me sing a few bits […]

Native American Heritage Month should be observed every day

November was designated as Native American Heritage Month. I was not able to fit in a blog post about it because I was doing some Native American research for a client. I am doing the post now because too many people in the U.S. and elsewhere ignore the Indigenous heritage of our lands on which […]

Closing out my 2023 genealogy presentations and doing contracts for 2024 and 2025

Last evening I had the honor of presenting “How to Drag Your Family into Genealogy” during the virtual annual meeting of the Texas State Genealogical Society (TxGS). I was impressed at the reporting of the extent of educational activities and volunteerism in the TxGS. It was also nice to see some long-time friends from Texas […]