FREE BCG-SPONSORED GENEALOGY WEBINAR. July 15, 2024

Not your ancestry? Oh, it’s still worth an hour of your time. You never know what you might learn about oral history, what someone with Asia-Pacific ancestry might ask you about in six months, or simply expanding your history knowledge. When I was doing publicity for and co-chairing large genealogy conferences, I often suggested that […]

Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) FREE webinar May 16 on finding name changes

I saw the first sentence of Judy Russel’s description for her upcoming webinar and yelled YAYYY. I really did yell that loudly. “Names weren’t changed at Ellis Island, but in courts, legislatures, and elsewhere both formally and officially — and on the fly.” How can we get beginning (and probably some who say they aren’t […]

Applications for BCG’s Paul Edward Sluby Sr. African American Scholarship

Details from a BCG Press Release on this unique opportunity for African American genealogists! Applications for scholarships for African Americans to participate in national genealogical institutes are due 15 March 2021, the Board for Certification of Genealogists® (BCG) announced today. This scholarship, established in 2020, is named after the first board-certified African American genealogist, Paul Edward […]