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Finding a Professional Genealogist

Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) : http://www.APGen.org ( I have just joined the APG ). Board for Certification of Genealogists : http://www.BCGcertification.org International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists : http://www.icapgen.org/ Study guide: Becoming an Accredited Genealogist by Karen Clifford, ISBN 0-916489-81-7 Book: Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Lecturers, and Librarians , ed. Elizabeth Shown Mills, ISBN 0-8063-1648-9 Other nations Australia and New Zealand: Australian Association of Genealogists and Record Agents : http://www.aagra.asn.au/ Canada: Genealogical Institute of the Maritimes / Institut généalogique des provinces Maritimes (the Maritimes of Canada): http://nsgna.ednet.ns.ca/gim/ Bureau Québécois D'Attestation de Compétence en Généalogie, Fédération Québécoise des Sociétés de Généalogie : http://www.federationgenealogie.qc.ca/ England: Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archi

Professional Genealogy

Well, I've done it. I joined the APG, the Association of Professional Genealogists ( http://www.apgen.org/ ). Labor Day weekend we went to the cabin, as we do every year. I took only one book with me to read - Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Lecturers, and Librarians , ed. Elizabeth Shown Mills. Reading it filled me with respect for the authors of the various chapters, which cover most aspects of doing professional genealogy, and deepened my desire to raise the quality of my research and reporting. What triggered me to actually join, however, was my father's remark that one of his friends would be contacting me to do some research for him. I haven't decided whether or not I will take on a client, but if I do, I want to have the protection of membership in the APG. I've been on the APG list for quite a while, and have learned quite a bit as a reader and participant. I have no idea whether or not I'll decide to certify as a genealogist ev