BCG Education Fund Workshop

Putting Skills to Work
Tuesday, 12 May, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., $110

This intensive day of learning focuses on skills and research standards needed by all genealogists. The BCG Education Fund designed the workshop for intermediate and advanced practitioners and combines class discussion with hands-on exercises. The registration fee of $110 includes two sessions, syllabus, and lunch. Limited to sixty students.

NGS conference registration is not required. The workshop usually fills up quickly so register early.

Barbara J. Mathews, CG, FASG, will address "Evidence Analysis, Correlation, and Resolution: The Heart of the Genealogical Proof Standard." The session will cover weighing and correlating sources, evidence, and information for successful resolution of investigations.

Barbara Mathews is a lineage genealogist specializing in colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts. She represents the Board for Certification of Genealogists on the Records Access and Preservation Committee, and is Civil Records Co-Director for the Massachusetts Genealogical Council (MGC). Her white paper co-written for MGC, “Framing a Discussion on Vital Records Access,” provides an historic look at government policies involving ID theft, financial fraud, and vital records. She is currently working on a book about the descendants of the fourth colonial governor of Connecticut for the Welles Family Association. Barbara mentored ProGen Studies Group 7, GenProof Studies Group 6, and currently mentors ProGen Studies Group 21. She is a substitute instructor for the Boston University genealogical certificate program and a contributor to the BCG blog SpringBoard. Barbara is a former BCG Board member and former Education Fund Trustee.


 
Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL, will focus on "Tested Strategies for Efficient Research Reports." Committing findings to paper should be part of every research process. This session will demonstrate how to develop a sharable work product.

Elissa Powell, a western Pennsylvania researcher, is immediate past-president of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. She is co-director of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP), instructs for Boston University’s Genealogical Research Certificate course and at the Salt Like Institute of Genealogy. She is coordinator of the Professional Genealogy course for the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University. Elissa is a frequent lecturer at national conferences as well as at venues across the United States. In 2010, she was the recipient of the National Genealogical Society’s President’s Citation for her broad support of the genealogical community.

Sponsored by the BCG Education Fund, an independent charitable trust, http://www.bcgcertification.org/educationfund/.

BCG Education Fund Workshop