Continuing Education
Options
- Elissa Scalisse Powell, "Choosing the Best Continuing Education Opportunities," Association of Professional Genealogists (http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/APG/Choosing_the_Best_Continuing_Education_Opportunities/Player.html : accessed 21 May 2012). This streaming video is available to anyone, not just APG members.
- Cyndi's List includes education as one of its categories. For access to many links on this topic, please refer to: http://www.cyndislist.com/education/
Institutes and Courses
- The National Genealogical Society offers its Home Study Course. The video introducing the courses is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iNYRdOV5Yk&lr=1 ; for more information, see the society's web site at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/homestudy_course_cd : accessed 22 May 2012.
- The Board for Certification of Genealogists lists the types of educational opportunities available by category, with examples and links in each category at http://bcgcertification.org/certification/educ.html .
Online Study Environments
I'm very fond of the ProGen study groups which follow a curriculum based on the book edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills. ed., Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers and Librarians (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001). http://books.google.com/books?id=8-w8gdbhSsIC&lpg=PR1&dq=professional%20genealogy&pg=PA486#v=onepage&q=professional%20genealogy&f=false . (DIsclosure: I had the privilege to mentor ProGen7.) For information on joining a group, check out www.progenstudy.org .