About Me
This website has been independently developed in order to collect reading and instructional material about standards. It is a link list structured under the overall divisions provided by The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual. This site is not meant to be an official resource. Nor is it meant to be a complete resource. It is simply a study resource for those of us who like to continue to improve our own work.
The website is starting a little bare but will grow over time. We am grateful that the Association of Professional Genealogists, FamilySearch, and the Board for Certification of Genealogists make so much good material available online.
The website is starting a little bare but will grow over time. We am grateful that the Association of Professional Genealogists, FamilySearch, and the Board for Certification of Genealogists make so much good material available online.
Barbara is a Board-certified professional genealogist who specializes in the families of colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts. Her past board positions include the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, the Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council, the Greater Boston (now New England) Chapter of APG, the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG), the BCG Education Fund (an independent Massachusetts charitable trust), and the Massachusetts Genealogical Council (MGC).
Currently Barbara serves as the American Society of Genealogists' Representative to the Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) and as President of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council. Barbara's blog, The Demanding Genealogist, explores issues of quality in genealogical work. She uses generally accepted genealogical standards to review printed and web-based genealogy work products, including her own work. Among Barbara's publications are Philo Hodge (1756-1842) of Roxbury, Connecticut, and Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut through Hezekiah[5] and Daniel[5] Wells of Stratford, Connecticut. Barbara also edited The Descendants of Thomas Lamkin of the Northern Neck of Virginia. She has many published articles in The American Genealogist (TAG) as well as a few articles in such journals and magazines as NGS Newsmagazine, Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ), The Connecticut Nutmegger, Connecticut Ancestry, and The Essex Genealogist. Her book reviews have appeared in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, TAG, the National Genealogy Society Quarterly, and APGQ. Barbara is now retired from lecturing and teaching, which she loved to do.
Currently Barbara serves as the American Society of Genealogists' Representative to the Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) and as President of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council. Barbara's blog, The Demanding Genealogist, explores issues of quality in genealogical work. She uses generally accepted genealogical standards to review printed and web-based genealogy work products, including her own work. Among Barbara's publications are Philo Hodge (1756-1842) of Roxbury, Connecticut, and Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut through Hezekiah[5] and Daniel[5] Wells of Stratford, Connecticut. Barbara also edited The Descendants of Thomas Lamkin of the Northern Neck of Virginia. She has many published articles in The American Genealogist (TAG) as well as a few articles in such journals and magazines as NGS Newsmagazine, Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ), The Connecticut Nutmegger, Connecticut Ancestry, and The Essex Genealogist. Her book reviews have appeared in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, TAG, the National Genealogy Society Quarterly, and APGQ. Barbara is now retired from lecturing and teaching, which she loved to do.