Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Exhibitor Spotlight: Board for Certification of Genealogists, Booth 431

The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) exhibit booth provides materials that are helpful for success in the certification process. You can discuss the seven requirements for certification with knowledgeable BCG volunteers and peruse actual successful portfolios. During the conference you may also ask questions in Session T-201, “BCG Certification Seminar,” on Thursday at 8 am and 9:30 am. Note: You don’t have to attend one to attend the other.

BCG is sponsoring a Skillbuilding Track throughout the conference. Presented by board-certified genealogists, each lecture discusses how to enhance your research and analysis skills whether in a specialty collection, or online. Other topics include new and standard techniques for recording and sharing our research, German language skills, Early American handwriting, lineage society papers. There is something for everyone!

Can’t attend? The website
www.BCGcertification.org contains skill-building articles, exercises, and a free download of The BCG Application Guide which describes the requirements that are to be placed in your portfolio notebook application. Anyone may subscribe to the BCG newsletter Onboard, which contains Skillbuilding articles. You don’t have be an associate of BCG.

The BCG is an independent organization not affiliated with, or part of, any group. It is a certifying body, not a membership society, and a nationally and internationally recognized organization. The Board's mission is to foster public confidence in genealogy as a respected branch of history by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics among genealogical practitioners, and by publicly recognizing persons who meet that standard.

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