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To Be Broadcast Online – BCG’s Free Day of Quality Genealogy Education October 6 in Salt Lake City

To Be Broadcast Online – BCG’s Free Day of Quality Genealogy Education October 6 in Salt Lake City

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BCG-Badge-color-200Top genealogists Jeanne Bloom, Martha Garrett, LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, Jill Morelli, Ann Staley, and Tom Jones will present six one-hour lectures held at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City Friday, 6 October 2017 between 9 AM and 5 PM mountain U.S. time. The lectures are free and open to the public (registration is not required), sponsored by the Board for Certification of Genealogists. All will be broadcast online (free registration is required, see below). The board is an independent certifying body and author of the updated 2014 Genealogy Standards.

Times, topics, and speakers:

9:00 AM – "Sweden's Multiple Naming Systems and How They Changed in the 1800s." Martha Garrett, CG

10:15 AM – "Past Conflict Repatriation: The Role of Genealogists and Methodology in Fulfilling Our Nation’s Promise." Jeanne Bloom, CG

11:30 AM – "Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Families That Came Out of Slavery." LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG

1:30 PM – "Using Timelines for Correlation and Analysis." Jill Morelli, CG

2:45 PM – "Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong, and Other Assorted Courthouse Records." Ann Staley, CG, CGL

4:00 PM – "Systematically Using Autosomal DNA Test Results to Help Break Through Genealogical Brick Walls." Tom Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL

“Whether you stop in for the lectures or join online, you will learn more about how to apply good methodology to your family research,” said President Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG. “The Board for Certification of Genealogists strives to foster public confidence in genealogy by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics. Educating all family historians of every level is part of this mission.”

For questions or more information contact office@BCGcertification.org.

Register for the Online Broadcasts

All six classes will be broadcast online by BCG's webinar partner, Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Visit www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/BCG to sign up individually (free), or click here to sign up for multiple classes at once.

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Certified Genealogist is a trademark and CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations. The Board name is registered USP&TO.

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