BCG Blog Features Skillbuilding Lectures from NGS Conference

It is not Friday, but I have a blog I would love to feature and recommend that others follow. This is the BCG SpringBoard: News and Notes blog. It is sponsored by the Board for Certification of Genealogists and I have found the content useful. Barbara Mathews, CG is the primary blogger, but she has had a series of board-certified genealogists featured as guest bloggers over the past week. They have written summaries of the lectures in the BCG Skillbuilding track at the National Genealogical Society Conference that was held in Las Vegas from May 8 - 11, 2013

I was able to attend a few of the lectures in this track, but missed many of them as I was only at the conference for 2 1/2 days, and spent some of my time networking and presenting my own lecture. I enjoyed the summaries of each presentation on this blog.

JAMB, Inc. recorded many of the lectures and will have them available for purchase on CD soon. See the NGS Conference page on their website for more information. I purchased several of the lectures on CD before I left the conference, and have done the same in past years even when I have been unable to attend the conference. This is an excellent way to further your genealogy education and learn from some of the best instructors in genealogy.

You can access some of the posts under "recent posts" on the blog, but not all of them so I decided to share links to the individual posts on the BCG Skillbuilding lecture track at the NGS 2013 conference:

• BCG Ed Fund Leary Distinguished Lecture: Elizabeth Mills on “Can Trousers, Beds, and Other ‘Trivial Details’ Solve Genealogical Problems?”
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Richard Sayre on “Genealogical Applications of Historical Geographical Information Systems”
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Pamela Boyer Sayre on “Enough is Enough! Or Is It?”
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Barbara Mathews on “Not Quite Right: Recognizing Errors”
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Julie Miller on “Using Emigrant Guides for Genealogical Research”  
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Elissa Scalise Powell on “Baker’s Dozen Steps to Writing Research Reports” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Warren Bittner on “Proof Arguments: How and Why?” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Harold Henderson on “Are We There Yet? Proof and the Genealogy Police” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: David Rencher on “Treasures in the Records of the U.S. Congress” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Dawne Slater-Putt’s “Fail! When the Record is Wrong” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Pat Stamm on “Step Outside Your Genealogical Box: Trying Assorted Records to Reach Research Goals” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: David Ouimette on “Overcoming Spelling Problems and Unlocking the Power of Names” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Elizabeth Mills on “Information Overload? Effective Project Planning, Research, Data Management, and Analysis” 
• BCG Luncheon at NGS 2013: Judy Russell on “Blackguards and Black Sheep: The Lighter Side of the Law” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Pam Eagleson on “Grandma’s Treasure Chest: Investigating and Evaluating Family Artifacts” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Barbara Vines Little on “Understanding What They Wrote: Tricks and Tips for Deciphering the Unintelligible in Documents” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Ronald Hill on “Interpreting the Symbols and Abbreviations in Seventeenth Century English and American Documents” 
• BCG Skillbuilding at NGS 2013: Thomas Jones on “Debunking Misleading Records” 
• BCG Education Fund Workshop: Putting Historical Context and Migration into Your Family History