Genealogy Standards Second Edition Revised

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How do family historians know they are producing or receiving trustworthy results? This official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealogists, essentially a users' guide for family historians, provides standards for genealogical researchers to assess their own and others' work. The revised second edition, published in 2019 with additional revisions in 2021, increases the clarity of DNA and privacy standards. Those standards are especially useful in the twenty-first century, when many genealogists use a complex new tool—DNA testing—and trace living people more often than they did in the past.

Sujets

• Reference
• Heraldry
• Genealogy

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 05 mars 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781684423545
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Genealogy Standards
Genealogy Standards
Second Edition Revised
Board for Certification of Genealogists
Post Office Box 14291
Washington, DC 20044
https://www.BCGcertification.org
Copyright 2019, 2021
Board for Certification of Genealogists
P. O. Box 14291
Washington, DC 20044
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Published by Ancestry.com ,
an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
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All rights reserved.
Board for Certification of Genealogists is a registered service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, a District of Columbia not-for-profit corporation. The words Certified Genealogist and the designation CG are registered certification marks and Certified Genealogical Lecturer and CGL are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists used under license by certificants who meet genealogical competency standards prescribed for its programs.
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, except for brief passages that a reviewer may quote.
Genealogy standards
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and glossary
ISBN 978-1-684-42352-1 (paper)
1. Genealogists-Certification.
2. Board for Certification of Genealogists (Washington, D.C.)-Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Board for Certification of Genealogists (Washington, D.C.)
CS8.5 .B38 2019
929 .1-dc21
Printed in the United States of America
Second Edition, revised
Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
Chapter 1- The Genealogical Proof Standard
Chapter 2- Standards for Documenting
1. Scope
2. Specificity
3. Purposes
4. Citation uses
5. Citation elements
6. Format
7. Shortcuts
8. Separation safeguards
Chapter 3- Standards for Researching
Planning Research
9. Planned research
10. Effective research questions
11. Sound basis
12. Broad context
13. Source-based content
14. Topical breadth
15. Efficient sequence
16. Flexibility
17. Extent
18. Terminating the plan
Collecting Data
19. Data-collection scope
20. Careful handling
21. Respect for source caretakers
22. Using others work
23. Reading handwriting
24. Understanding meanings
25. Note-taking content
26. Distinction between content and comments
27. Note-taking objectivity
28. Images and printouts
29. Transcriptions
30. Abstracts
31. Quotations
32. Transcribing, abstracting, and quoting principles
33. Paraphrases and summaries
34. Agents
35. Source analysis
36. Information analysis
Reasoning from Evidence
37. Sources, information, and evidence
38. Source preference
39. Information preference
40. Evidence mining
41. Evidence scope
42. Evidence discrimination
43. Evidence integrity
44. Evidence reliability
45. Assumptions
46. Evidence independence
47. Evidence correlation
48. Resolving evidence inconsistencies
49. Unresolved evidence inconsistencies
50. Assembling conclusions from evidence
Using DNA Evidence
51. Planning DNA tests
52. Analyzing DNA test results
53. Extent of DNA evidence
54. Sufficient verifiable data
55. Integrating DNA and documentary evidence
56. Conclusions about genetic relationships
57. Respect for privacy rights
Chapter 4- Standards for Writing
Genealogical Proofs
58. Research scope
59. Proved conclusions
60. Selection of appropriate options
61. Logical organization
Assembled Research Results
62. Integrity and ownership
63. Honesty
64. Background information
65. Content
66. Proofs included
67. Overall format
68. Structure
69. Clear writing
70. Technically correct writing
71. Cross referencing
72. Genealogical formats
73. Biographical information
Special-Use Genealogical Products
74. Reports
75. Lineage-society applications
76. Source guides
77. Methodology guides
78. Compiled abstracts
79. Reviews
80. Database programs
Chapter 5- Standards for Genealogical Educators
Lecturers and Instructors
81. Planned outcomes
82. Content titles
83. Enhancements
84. Bibliographies
85. Presentation style
86. Ownership
87. Course design
88. Student evaluation
Chapter 6- Standards for Continuing Education
Knowledge and Skill Development
89. Development goals
90. Regular engagement
Appendix A- The Genealogist s Code of Ethics
To protect the public
To protect the client (paying or pro bono)
To protect the profession
To protect people who provide DNA samples
Appendix B- About the Board for Certification of Genealogists
Publications
Educational Activities
Certification Program
Organizational Structure
BCG s Addresses
Appendix C- Sources and Resources
Source Material and Related Readings
Resources for Examples
Appendix D- Glossary
Evidence Analysis: A Research Process Map
Introduction to the Second Edition
The practice of genealogy evolves as new developments and technologies emerge. Genealogy s standards must keep pace also. Responding to this decade s spate of advancements in the practice of genetic genealogy, the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) has modified four existing standards and added seven new standards to guide the use of DNA evidence in genealogical analysis. 1 This second edition of Genealogy Standards incorporates those changes.
The seven new standards address
planning of DNA tests;
analysis of DNA test results;
extent of DNA evidence;
sufficiency of verifiable data;
integration of DNA and documentary evidence;
conclusions about genetic relationships; and
respect for privacy rights.
The modifications to existing standards call for
documentation of sources for each parent-child link;
distinction among adoptive, foster, genetic, step, and other kinds of familial relationships (when appropriate);
effective use of graphics as aids; and
explanations of deficiencies when research is insufficient to reach a conclusion.
BCG also has updated the Genealogist s Code to address the protection of individuals who provide DNA samples. New terms added to the glossary reflect the specialized language associated with DNA evidence.
The revised standards arose from several years of intense debate, consultation with some of the field s leading experts, and the solicitation of public comment on proposed standards. BCG has considered the proposals in two contexts: the needs of a rigorous certification process for attainable requirements; and how the standards would affect genealogical researchers.
The Genealogical Proof Standard requires researchers to consider all relevant evidence. Such consideration includes DNA evidence. Research questions, potential answers, and documentary findings help genealogists decide whether DNA evidence could be relevant to their research. When it is, their actions and products respond to ethics considerations and meet standards specific to genealogy and genetic genealogy.
The effort to develop genetic-genealogy standards was jump-started in September 2016 at the Professional Management Conference sponsored by the Association of Professional Genealogists. In a provocative assessment of the profession, Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, challenged those present to embrace genealogy as a profession solidly grounded in competence, ethics, and self-regulation. Subsequently, two attendees, Karen Stanbary, CG, and Blaine T. Bettinger, PhD, JD, approached Jones with strategies especially targeted to practitioners who consult and analyze genetic sources as part of the larger body of evidence used to solve genealogical problems.
Bettinger, Jones, and Stanbary concluded that BCG was the most appropriate organization to tackle this task. Shortly thereafter, BCG s president Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG, conducted a strategic planning session for the Board. There, Stanbary and Debbie Parker Wayne, CG, CGL, relayed the key concepts discussed at the conference and asked BCG to form a committee to study the need for standards in the use of DNA evidence. That committee, first under the leadership of Wayne, and then later Stanbary, assessed the issues and guided the development of standards by the trustees, other certified associates, and DNA experts.
Thirty-nine individuals made significant contributions to this process:
Laurel T. Baty, CG
Claire Bettag, CG
Blaine T. Bettinger, PhD, JD
Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG
Melinde Lutz Byrne, CG, FASG
Ruy A. Cardoso, CG
Laura Murphy DeGrazia, CG
Donn Devine, JD, CG Emeritus
Stefani Evans, CG
Judy Keller Fox, CG
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL
Paul K. Graham, CG, CGL, AG
Shannon Green, CG
Michael Grant Hait Jr., CG, CGL
Alison Hare, CG
Harold Henderson, CG
Melinda Daffin Henningfield, CG
Patricia Lee Hobbs, CG
Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG
Jean Foster Kelley, CG
Connie Miller Lenzen, CG
Anita Lustenberger, CG
David McDonald, DMin, CG
Angela Packer McGhie, CG
Debra S. Mieszala, CG
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Jill K. Morelli, CG
David S. Ouimette, CG, CGL
Nancy A. Peters, CG, CGL
Allen R. Peterson, CG
Michael S. Ramage, JD, CG
David E. Rencher, CG, AG
Malissa Ruffner, JD, CG
Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
Sara Anne Scribner, CG
Karen Stanbary, CG
Cari A. Taplin, CG
Debbie Parker Wayne, CG, CGL
Scott M. Wilds, CG
Editors are key to the production of any coherent and organized publication. BCG has been fortunate to have Thomas W. Jones shape for press both this publication and its predecessor. The work of proofreaders Laurel Baty, Alison Hare, and Debbie Parker Wayne is also greatly appreciated.
Special recognition is due Blaine T. Bettinger, one of America s most prominent genetic genealogists. Although not affiliated with BCG, he has provided much technical expertise and a unique perspective on the power of DNA evidence to assist in the resolution of kinship determinations.
BCG especially extends its app