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    Genealogy Standards: 50th Anniversary Edition
    Genealogy Standards: 50th Anniversary Edition
    Genealogy Standards: 50th Anniversary Edition
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    Genealogy Standards: 50th Anniversary Edition

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    REVISED AND UPDATED FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION



    Family historians depend upon thousands of people unknown to them. They exchange research with others; copy information from books and databases; and write libraries, societies, and government offices. At times they even hire professionals to do legwork in distant areas and trust strangers to solve important problems. But how can a researcher be assured that he or she is producing or receiving reliable results? This new edition of the official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealogists provides a standard by which all genealogists can pattern their work.



    "Anyone who wants to become a certified genealogist will need to read this book." —Dick Eastman
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAncestry.com
    Release dateFeb 17, 2014
    ISBN9781630260330
    Genealogy Standards: 50th Anniversary Edition

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      Genealogy Standards - Board for Certification of Genealogists

      INTRODUCTION

      Accuracy is fundamental to genealogical research. Without it, a family's history would be fiction. This manual presents the standards family historians use to obtain valid results.

      These standards apply to all genealogical research, whether shared privately or published. They also apply to personal research and research for clients, courts, and other employers. The standards address documentation; research planning and execution, including reasoning from evidence; compiling research results; genealogical education; and ongoing development of genealogical knowledge and skills.

      Family historians throughout the twentieth century adapted concepts from the field of law to develop guidelines for assessing their research results. Recognizing flaws in attempting to apply one discipline's principles to another, from 1997 to 2000 the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) clarified, organized, and compiled the field's best practices into the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS).¹ That effort led to The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual, released at the National Genealogical Society's annual conference in 2000.² That volume's contents have been the field's only published criteria for evaluating genealogical research processes and outcomes. Developed through deliberative collaborative efforts, those standards reflected a consensus among BCG's trustees, whose experience, peer-reviewed work samples and publications, and teaching place them among the field's leadership.

      1. Helen F. M. Leary, Evidence Revisited—DNA, POE, and GPS, OnBoard: Newsletter of the Board for Certification of Genealogists 4 (January 1998): 1–2 and 5.

      2. Board for Certification of Genealogists, The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual (Orem, Utah: Ancestry, 2000).

      Since the first edition was published, genealogy has continued to advance, and its standards have continued to evolve, creating the need for a new edition. This edition—published in BCG's fiftieth year—updates, clarifies, consolidates, expands, and regroups the original standards. The revision also ties them more directly to the Genealogical Proof Standard. A new title reflects the standards' value for all genealogists.

      Extensive rewording reflects changes since 2000, including technological and scientific advances. It also aims for greater clarity and stronger emphasis on family historians and their work. Refined definitions, now removed from the standards' content, appear in a glossary.

      The number of standards has increased from seventy-two to eighty-three. The increase, however, reflects reorganization more than added material. Sections of multipart standards now appear separately. The revision also groups related standards that previously appeared separately. For example, disparate documentation standards now appear together.

      The reorganized standards fit into a modified overall structure. A new grouping, Standards for Documenting, precedes other groupings because documentation applies to all phases of genealogical activity. Categories of research standards appear in the order in which genealogical researchers confront them: Planning Research (a new category), Collecting Data (formerly Data-Collection), and Reasoning from Evidence (formerly Evidence-Evaluation). New categories Genealogical Proofs, Assembled Research Results, and Special-Use Genealogical Products appear in a grouping of Standards for Writing. They consolidate standards from Compilation (formerly under Research Standards) with Standards for Educational Writers (formerly under Teaching Standards).

      Cross-references appended to many of the standards refer readers to the glossary for definitions related to the

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