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  • Why Standards are for Everyone

    Standards are imperative for anyone who cares about achieving accurate research, whether for their own family or someone else’s family.

  • Assembling Research Results

    Nineteen standards in Genealogy Standards address the treatment of assembled research results in case studies and kinship determination projects.

  • Narrative Genealogies, Lineages, and Pedigrees

    Genealogical narratives are written work products that document linkages between successive generations, usually take one of three standard forms, and meet the GPS.

  • Certification Seminar

    With Angela Packer McGhie, CG, FUGA, and Patti Lee Hobbs, CG. In this interactive forum, current associates share various pathways to certification and how to begin.

  • Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research

    Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research

    LaBrenda will teach sessions in two courses: • Course Three — Advanced Methodology and Evidence Analysis • Course Eleven — Researching African American Ancestors: Courthouse Records

  • Researching African American Ancestors Who Came Out of Slavery (Online)

    Fountaindale Public Library 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook, IL, United States

    Genealogist LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson will introduce attendees to a variety of Federal and state sources to help you identify formerly enslaved ancestors. In addition to referencing other commonly used pre-1870 and antebellum records, the lecture will highlight the important legal and historical context and interpretive guidance of particular relevance to African-Americans.

  • Lunch and Learn: Planning Research

    Southern California Genealogical Society

    Reasonably exhaustive research is the first component of the Genealogical Proof Standard. This webinar will focus on the elements of an effective research plan to meet this requirement.

  • Planning Research

    The Villages Genealogical Society

    Genealogical proof requires the conduct of reasonably exhaustive research. This presentation will provide useful tips on developing an effective research plan, including the importance of crafting a focused research question and prioritizing potentially relevant sources.

  • Analyzing Probate Records of Slaveholders to Identify Enslaved Ancestors

    Virginia Genealogical Society Fall Conference

    Because enslaved people were treated as a species of property, the fates of these ancestors were determined in probate proceedings incident to the settlement of the estates of enslavers. This lecture will focus on the analysis of probate records to identify enslaved ancestors.