Junk Genealogy Masquerades as the Truth - Mary E. Petty's Answer to Question #1

Question #1: Without organized professionalism and its attendant standardization, how is junk genealogy to be unmasked? Or put another way, how do you separate true and accurate genealogy from junk genealogy in the non professionalized world of family history?

While there is no quick fix, there are four possible approaches to the problem.

1. The consumer can wait till his family tree has been climbed by others; and then, hope that Genealogy Research Services has professionalized so he can hire a real professional to validate or disprove all the genealogy work discovered in the past. Could be in the next life!
2. The consumer does his own genealogy after he devotes considerable time and effort to becoming a professional genealogist by adhering to the hallmarks of a real professional – college education; skill training, work experience; competency testing, verifiable credentials; compliance; membership in qualified members-only organization that requires these qualifying standards, best practices, and ethics. If the consumer is willing to become a real professional genealogist!
3. The consumer encourages the formal establishment of a profession in Genealogy Research Services to create qualified practitioners (education, training, experience, competency testing, continuing education, compliance) with members-only professional organization supporting and maintaining recognized methodology, best practices, ethics, and standards so trustworthy genealogy can be accurately discovered and documented, verified, reproduced, and certified. My Dream by 2020!
4. Practitioner initiative (actual workers who make a living doing genealogy research for hire for clients, organizes a real profession in Genealogy Research Services by 2020 to establish and verifiably maintain the qualified practitioner criteria, standards, methodology, technology, science, best practices, and ethics. My Dream by 2020!

Personally, I feel it is impossible to unmask junk genealogy in today’s non-professionalized genealogy research services marketplace. Just calling something Professional Genealogy does not make it so for either the practitioner or the products and services and outcomes. Any one can work in genealogy today, producing whatever they call genealogy, with no standardized qualifier as to the validity, quality, and status of the product or the producer. Any one can self-appoint themselves as a professional and charge money for their services, products and work, or do this for free, falsely claiming pro bono or professional stature of the advice, instruction, or facts. In such unstructured commercial activity, you can’t tell the real practitioner from the non-qualified or self-appointed worker, or whose work or efforts is true or junk genealogy. For the consumer’s, it’s a real buyer’s-beware environment.

Genealogy is so intertwined with hobbyist, amateur, and self-styled professional work, that consumers have no authoritative means of separating between the real work of authorized practitioners, and that produced by the self-designated professional or massed-produced or recopied by the hobbyist world. Without recognized professionals who have access to standardized education, training, competency testing with verifiable continuing education, compliance, standards, ethics, and best practice, there is no authoritative means to differentiate between the qualified and unqualified practitioner and their outcomes. Everyone and everything is suspect in today’s world of genealogy research services, resulting in unfettered junk genealogy. Anyone may self-designate as a genealogist, often erroneously self-applying the term professional genealogist to lead the consumer to believe that there is a profession in genealogy research services. Such self-styled workers then call their genealogy services or outcomes “professional”, be it actual research work or just talking, writing, blogging, speaking, lecturing, or teaching about genealogy. Junk Genealogy thrives in such a world of non standardization or un-professionalism. It will always be a problem till the work of Genealogy Research Services professionalizes and formally organizes as a profession. Just like true and accurate research in any real research and discovery profession like paleontology, archeology, and astronomy, professional designation in genealogy must be credible, competency-based, maintained and reproducible; verifiable and restricted by standardization to qualified practitioners only.

Genealogy is a lot like paleontology, archeology, and astronomy. They are all very technical, scientific and scholarly research-oriented fields of endeavor and interest that have very small professional occupations, affiliated business and industry work opportunities, and very large hobbyist or amateur participation. They all suffer from free junk made available to the consumer by the unqualified, as well as non professionals who compete with the real professional practitioners for the consumer dollar by doing research and writing, speaking, teaching, and producing materials and results that are marketed to the consumer as true and valid.

Paleontology, archeology, and astronomy have existing professions that use the well-established pattern of professionalism to control who is designated by their professional organizations as a real paleontologist, archeologist, and astronomer. So pros can trust other pros, for trustworthy, verifiable and reproducible results, practitioners have earned the profession-mandated college education and skill training as the entry-level hallmark designators for a professional or career worker in their field. This achievement of the required content-specific college degrees and on the job training at the graduate level separates the hobbyist from the qualified and allows the degreed person to be designated as a professional in their respective occupation.

This enables the professionals to know who is professionally qualified, and by right, use the professional designation as paleontologist, archeologist, and astronomer. There is no self-appointment as a professional. This does not prevent someone from working in these fields, but it does remove the possibility of confusing professional work from that done by the unqualified. In other words, professionals know who is producing the materials and can easily separate the credibility and competency of the work and the provider. While this does not stop the active hobby world from digging for dinosaurs, or historical artifacts, or searching for new planets and then holding conferences, publishing consumer magazines and blogging their findings, it sets trustworthy criteria for both the consumer and professionals to use to unmask the junk in their fields. Paleontology, archeology, and astronomy differ from genealogy because of such professionalization and the resultant professionalism of the practitioners.

This professionalization and ensuing professionalism are in the best interests of the consumer, the practitioner, the profession, the affiliated partners in technology, science, goods, and services, and the public and private domain family trees. My dream is the establishment of a real profession in genealogy research services by 2020 through the actions of career practitioners and the efforts of well-meaning consumers. Here we will find the true, reliable, and trustworthy means and tools to unmask junk genealogy and to climb the family tree professionally, and accurately identify individuals an link them to their real ancestors, descendants, and relatives, and their place in history.

Submitted by Mary E. Petty, BA (History), BA (Genealogy)
Ancestors are the People of History.● Do you know who yours are? ● Let the Professionals at HEIRLINES FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY find your ancestry! ●1-800-570-4049 ● www.heirlines.com ● PO Box 893 ● Salt Lake City, UT 84110
© 2009, Heirlines Family History & Genealogy, Inc. All rights reserved.

Junk Genealogy Masquerades As The Truth

Things are seldom what they seem -Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Quotation by William S Gilbert (1836 – 1911)

Most genealogy enthusiasts, patrons, customers, vendors, and practitioners want the truth in data, products, and services. Whether these genealogy consumers are one of the few - a pre-qualified, practitioner-designated “professional genealogist” (earned status and experienced as a “pro”, or “expert”) or self-proclaimed as such; whether they are a commercial provider/vendor, a hobbyist, or a potential client; whether they do genealogy research, or write, blog, or teach about genealogy; whether they produce, promote, market, or distribute genealogy; or whether they use, buy, or sell genealogy data, products and services, the majority interested in genealogy today want to know who and what is real, true, and safe, and to be able to easily make the best and correct choices. With the coming of the Internet and the ensuing development of free computer and E-commerce genealogy and family history web-based businesses, databases, products, services, technologies, resources, and activities found on and offline, achieving these desires have become increasingly challenging in the field of Genealogy.

Why?

One of biggest problems facing family history consumers is junk genealogy masquerading as the truth. This is a direct consequence of the non-professionalization of the so-called profession of Professional Genealogy.
The required professional authority, criteria, and competency of authorized professional genealogists, needed to create the quality, integrity, and service of professional work and outcomes in business, commerce, and pro bono genealogy that is now so readily accessed on and off the Internet, must be set and maintained institutionally, and supported by qualified practitioner-designated “professional genealogists”. This has not happened yet in Professional Genealogy.

Only a very few practitioners have been willing to support the formation of such a profession in Professional Genealogy with standardized standards, methodology, ethics, best practices, and admission policies; and fewer still, to earn the available (emerging, but still non-standardized and not for pre-qualified professionals only) professional genealogy education, training, experience, competency, credentials, membership, and compliance that warrant the qualified-designation as “professional genealogist”. Without organized professionalism and its attendant standardization, how is junk genealogy to be unmasked? how can the consumer accurately determine genealogy and family history? and how does a consumer choose a qualified professional genealogy practitioner or reputable genealogy research services business, or provider of genealogy databases, products, and related services?

How?

As Vice President of HEIRLINES Family History & Genealogy, Inc., I have asked myself these same three questions. After briefly introducing Heirlines and its professional genealogy owners, over the next couple of blogs I will specifically address each of these questions and share our solutions with you, gained from our nearly 40 years experience in professional genealogy research services, providing verifiable forensic genealogy, in-depth genealogy and family history research, analysis, and reporting, databases, and genealogical information for our clients and the private and public domain family trees. If you have additional questions, please go to our website www.Heirlines.com and contact us using the Free Consultation Form. We will be happy to talk to you in greater detail about professional genealogy.

HEIRLINES FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY, INC.
Ancestors are the People of History. Do you know who yours are?
Let the Professionals at HEIRLINES FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY find your ancestry!
1-800-570-4049 ▪ www.heirlines.com ▪ PO Box 893 ▪ Salt Lake City, UT 84110

HEIRLINES Family History & Genealogy, Inc. is a full-service Professional Genealogy Research Services firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is a BBB Accredited Business with Utah incorporation and Sandy City Business License compliance. HEIRLINES provides Certified Family Trees ™, Forensic Genealogy, Custom In-depth Research, Analysis, Reporting verifiable American and International Ancestry, LDS, Lineage Society, Ethnic and Minority Status, Pro – Pro, DNA Surname and Mitochondrial Studies, Family Health History, Corporate History, Consultation and other Professional Genealogy Research Services through for-hire contracted work. HEIRLINES primary, locally-accessed, professional genealogy repository is the #1 premier, world- renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Additional resources, sources, and databases are accessed through on-line corporate Internet accounts, qualified sub-contractors, and in-person onsite research at repositories worldwide.

A private family-owned corporation, HEIRLINES is led by President and Principal Genealogist, James W. Petty, AG®, CGSM. He is a member in good standing with the National Association of Professional Genealogists and local APG Salt Lake City, Utah chapter, since its first year, 1979. A commercial genealogy practitioner, Mr. Petty has had a full-time career “climbing the family tree professionally, since 1969”. As a qualified professional genealogist, James W. Petty, AG®, CGSM has set the professional standard for our Professional Genealogy Research Services company by earning his designation as “professional genealogist”. He has adhering to the most popular professional career path even though it has not been formally instituted or standardized for the Profession as a whole in genealogy today. As of the beginning of the 21st century it is available with quasi- professional standards, ethics, methodology, best practices, and admission policies including: Formal Education in Professional Genealogy Research; Formal Training in Professional Genealogy Research; Formal Experience in Professional Genealogy Research; Competency Testing and Maintained; Continuing Education, Business Compliance, Member of APG (as of 2009, this is not a profession-qualified members-only organization).

James W. Petty, AG, CG Professional Genealogy Career Path: 1969 - Present

• Full-time Career Professional Genealogist in occupation and emerging profession of Professional Genealogy Research Services: Education, Training, Experience, Credentials, Membership (1969-Present).
• Full-Time Career Professional Genealogy Research Career Experience - DBA as James W. Petty and James W. Petty, AG (1969-1979) ; then President and Owner HEIRLINES Family History & Genealogy, Inc. and DBA (1979 – present); E-Commerce website www.Heirlines.com (1998- present).
• Formal Education and Training in Genealogy Research - 1969 – 1973
• Graduate: BYU - B.A. History 1972, B. S. Genealogy 1973.
• Formal Experience in Professional Genealogy Employment: GSU/LDSGD/FHL: Field Operations, Reference Librarian, Researcher (1973-1980).
• Competency Tested Credentials Earned and Dates Maintained:
FHL/ICAPGen: AG®, Accredited Genealogist in 4 areas of specialty. (1971- Present);
BCG: CGSM , Certified Genealogist. (2005-present);
Previous Certifications: CALS, Certified American Lineage Specialist. (1983- 1988); CGRS, Certified Genealogical Records Specialist. (2000- 2005).
• Created Certified Family Trees ™, Historical Event Genealogy™, and the Jamestowne & Colonial Virginia Genealogy & DNA Project TM.
• Recipient of BCG Education Fund 2005 Donald Mosher Award.
• Instructor: Heritage Genealogy College; Salt Lake Community College, National, State and Local Genealogy Society Conferences.
• Internship Mentor: BYU, HGC, SLCC, Salt Lake Institute genealogy research students.
• Professional Genealogist, Forensic Genealogist, Researcher, Author, Columnist, Lecturer, Consultant, Expert Witness.

The ICAPGenSM service mark and the Accredited Genealogist® and the AG® certification marks are the sole property of the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. All Rights Reserved.
CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board.

Mary E. Petty, B.A. History BYU 1972, B.A. Genealogy HGC 2008, serves as Vice President of Heirlines. She has more than thirty- seven years’ experience in commercial genealogy research services, development, and project management: responsible for accounting, marketing, business development, and client/customer relations in consumer genealogical and historical research. Working along side James W. Petty, AG®, CGSM, Mrs. Petty has provided professional genealogy services including in-depth family tree research, consultation, special projects, and DNA genetic genealogy for individuals, family organizations, ethnic minorities, businesses, and law firms world-wide since 1972. Both she and Mr. Petty have served on the Utah Department of Health’s Family Health History Task Force and she is a member in good standing with National and the local Salt Lake City, Utah Chapter of APG. A published professional genealogy author, editor and family history branch librarian, Mary has continually worked to help clients, consumers, and amateur and professional genealogists have a better understanding of the professional genealogy industry, its potential, professionalism and professionalization. Her dream is to have a full-fledged profession in genealogy with standardized standards, ethics, methodology, best practices, and admission policies by 2020.

Submitted by Mary E. Petty, BA (History), BA (Genealogy)
●Ancestors are the People of History.● Do you know who yours are?
● Let the Professionals at HEIRLINES FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY find your ancestry!
●1-800-570-4049 ● www.heirlines.com ● PO Box 893 ● Salt Lake City, UT 84110

© 2009, Heirlines Family History & Genealogy, Inc. All rights reserved.

There is a crisis of truth in genealogy because there are no industry-wide comprehensive standards. Such standardization is a direct result of the formal institution of an organized profession. While there is rampant use of the terms Professional Genealogy and Professional Genealogist by the qualified practitioner, and the self-styled pro, and the amateur, there is no such organized profession in genealogy today. This lack of established and protected standards affects the accuracy, credibility and trustworthiness of all producers of family trees in the private and public domain; genealogical research findings, results and publications; Internet genealogy and family history websites, databases, postings, blogs, products, and services; qualifications for professional genealogist designation and formal educational programs, credentials, certifications, and accreditations. It has created the situation today of the blurred lines of distinction and separation between what and who is real, trustworthy, and true and what and who is not. Today’s Professional Genealogy is both a hobby and a commercial activity and Professional Genealogists can be qualified practitioners or self – styled pros and self-designated experts as well as hobbyists who do not take clients but want their genealogy labeled “professional”. Consumers need to know and understand all of this in order to be fully informed and able to make the best choices for their genealogy and family history needs.

Without profession-mandated and enforceable standards to qualify, establish, and certify practitioners, methodologies, best practices, ethics, resources and sources of information used in genealogy to research and produce the family tree and genealogical and historical products and services, genealogy truth is rootless. With the absence of such standards, anyone may claim anything as true and can market their work as professional, thereby misleading the consumer and creating over and over again the untrue facts that make up much of the world of genealogy. All are left with an “anything goes”, “buyers-beware” marketplace and environment in family history.

And the consumer has the right to know this, whether they be a hobbyist climbing their own family tree or a client seeking to hire a qualified genealogist to provide accurate genealogical research services; a genealogical society needing competent professionals to lecture, instruct or write about genealogy for their membership or a government agency requiring minority status authentication or locating fallen heroes next of kin; a doctor doing pharmacological or medical research using family health history or an attorney or academic in need of forensic genealogy and expert witness testimony; or a professional genealogist requiring authentic information or qualified pro to pro sub-contractor work.
Until a such profession is organized in genealogy and such standardization takes place to separate the qualified from the self-designated or hobbyist, consumers must do more thorough personal due diligence in choosing what information they will use in pursuit of their family tree, and in determining which practitioner is really qualified to supply them with the truth.

Consumers must be aware:

1. Recognize that Genealogy is both a hobby and a commercial activity, and has no organized profession. This blurs the line separating the real commercial practitioner and qualified professional genealogist from the amateur and the self-styled “pro” or so called “expert”. Anyone can call themselves a professional genealogist and claim professional status. The consumer must be the credentialing committee and do his own sifting for accurate information and qualifying their practitioner. To get what you want, to get what you pay for, to get the truth in genealogy today, consumers must learn the differences and separate the real professional and real commercial practitioners, products, and services from the amateur world of genealogy. And encourage the industry to organize and standardize a profession so the bar can be raised and standards set and maintained. This is in the best interests of the consumer, the practitioner, the industry, the profession, and the public and private domain family tree.
2. Look for a full-time career professional genealogist with credentials when you need professional research help and advice. Real professionals follow the professional career track: education, training, full-time experience, membership association, competency certification and accreditation, business license and membership. A smart consumer looks for a qualified professional genealogist who has a degree in genealogy, training in genealogy, full-time career work experience in genealogy, competency certification and accreditation, business license and compliance, and is a member in good-standing with APG.
3. Remember that the Internet is just a resource and must be carefully evaluated and sourced for accuracy. A pretty website does not make a professional nor represent truth. Something found on the Internet, does not make it true or false nor does it make the producer a professional or not. The consumer must determine the validity and trustworthiness for himself of what and who he finds on the Internet by using his personal standards of professionalism and business excellence. Or hire a qualified person to do it for them.
4. Anyone may self-designate as a professional genealogist. And charge money for it. With the absence of profession-mandated standards, anyone may claim anything as true and may market their work as professional, thereby misinforming the consumer and all who ever access their work. Traditionally a professional genealogist was someone who did research for hire. It is popular today in genealogy to claim professional status and to not do research for hire. Many such self-styled experts prefer to write about genealogy or have a blog, own a website related to genealogy, or lecture or instruct others about genealogy. Many such pros do this kind of genealogy as a side job or for their love of being involved in the genealogy world. Wise consumers will seek out career professional genealogists who have full-time experience in genealogy work when competent qualified research is needed.
5. Anyone is eligible to join the professional genealogy membership organizations that currently exist in professional genealogy by just paying their dues and agreeing to an ethics and membership standards statement. While there are no profession-prepared members-only organizations, these organizations often have arbitration committees that can help out when consumers or professional genealogists have issues. One such prominent organization is the Association of Professional Genealogists (www.apgen.org). It is open to all who pay their money and agree to adhere to the ethics and standards of the association. No professional pre-qualification is necessary. The prudent consumer should always choose a qualified practitioner who is in good standing with APG.
6. Currently there is no profession-prepared or education-based competency credential for the pre-qualified professional or career professional genealogy researcher. The same competency- tested credentials in genealogy research are available to hobbyists, self-styled experts and pros, and professionally designated practitioners alike, who apply and earn such credentials, whether or not they intend to do family history research for hire or commercial genealogy. Two competency–testing organizations exist in the world of genealogy today, The Board for Certification of Genealogists (www.bcgcertification.org) and The International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (www.icapgen.org). These certification and accreditation bodies are open to all who wish to apply and then qualify as per their standards, and agree to abide by the ethics of said credentialing boards. No professional pre-qualification is necessary. These organizations also have arbitration committees for disputes and issues. This is a real plus for the consumer and practitioner.
7. For truth to grow and flourish in the world of genealogy, standardization must develop, bringing with it professionalization of the industry and competency, compliance, and certification. Look for a Profession in Professional Genealogy Research Services by 2020. In the meantime, become better informed about what constitutes truth and professionalism in genealogy so you can make the best choices for your unique family tree.

Submitted by Mary E. Petty, BA (History), BA (Genealogy)

Ancestors are the People of History. Do you know who yours are? Let the Professionals at HEIRLINES FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY find your ancestry! 1-800-570-4049 www.heirlines.com PO Box 893 Salt Lake City, UT 84110

© 2009, Heirlines Family History & Genealogy, Inc. All rights reserved.

Professional Genealogy or Professional Genealogy Research Services is an emerging profession struggling to break away from the strangle-hold of its past history and today’s non- profession qualified practitioner performance of full-time and part-time workers in professional genealogy research services occupations, participants in genealogical avocations, and vendors in associated services and products. Most Professional Genealogists today are self-styled as professional and/or expert, and most do not work in Professional Genealogy. A few career professional genealogists have earned the required professional criteria that are the standardized attributes of a professional practicing or working in a profession and have the necessary education, training, experience to qualify as an expert. Any other use of the term “expert” or application to the unqualified is a dilution of its meaning and status, as has happened with the words “professional” and “profession” in genealogy. Only a formalized profession can qualify and credential its practitioners.

Currently, there is no profession of Professional Genealogy (Professional Genealogy Research Services), either as a self-regulated profession or as government-regulated. There are no profession-mandated standards for education, training, experience, credentialing, continuing education, ethics, best practices, methodology, members-only qualified membership organization and so on for the businesses of this field of endeavor or for establishing expert status. At best, Professional Genealogy or Professional Genealogy Research Services are occupations or avocations in genealogy research and associated vendors where everyone does their own thing, except where the professional genealogist has been willing to subject their way of doing business to some membership or credentialing body that is open to all without regards to a formally established profession. Otherwise there is no oversight or determination of any practitioner, standards, ethics or practices.

Results by such “so-called” professionals or experts are only as trusted and reliable as the consumer believes to be true. This applies to all types of consumers, be they pro to pro, professional and vendor online listing malls, online databases, private and public domain family tree and family history, society and genealogical publications, consumers from all walks of life and professional genealogy business uses. This consumerism needs trusted professional practitioners and results; this professionalism and expertise benefits the consumer, the practitioner, and the profession. This is a key reason for creating a profession in Professional Genealogy or Professional Genealogy Research Services.

I support and call for the institution of a self regulated profession for these occupations to ensure profession-qualified experts and to establish a reliable method for such determination for the consumer, the practitioner, and the profession. Until such a formalized step is taken, whoever uses the terms “profession”, “expert” and/or “professional” is wholly responsible and accountable for their application of the term, the consumers reaction to it, and its effect on the credibility and reliability of the occupations associated thereto. Professional, Profession, and Expert are only words in today’s world of Professional Genealogy (Professional Genealogy Research Services.). By 2020 I hope to see these terms correctly applied to a real profession and its practitioners.

Sincerely yours,

Mary E. Petty, B.A. (History), B.A. (Genealogy)
APG member Salt Lake Utah and National
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Ancestors are the People of History. Do you know who yours are?
Let the Professionals at HEIRLINES FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY find your ancestry!
1-800-570-4049 ▪ www.heirlines.com ▪ PO Box 893 ▪ Salt Lake City, UT 84110

© 2009, Heirlines Family History & Genealogy, Inc. All rights reserved.

Recently the news has been besieged by false notifications of many celebrity deaths. As people have rushed to learn more about these star passings, more and more they are finding conflicting information and outright untruths. What a waste of time and money and resources! On July 1, 2009 John Sutter of CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/01/celebrity.death.pranks/index.html) wrote:

“The situation is calling attention to the changing state of the news media: As information online moves faster and comes from more sources, it's more difficult to verify what's true and what may be shockingly false.

Some have downplayed the situation, saying the rumors are not harmful. Others find the situation offensive in light of the actual deaths last week.

Internet-savvy readers can tell the difference between fake news and real information that has been verified by a trusted blogger or mainstream news reporter, said Gabriel Snyder, managing editor at Gawker, a celebrity news and gossip blog not associated with the rumors.”

This sounds a lot like the current day situation in genealogy found on the Internet. Because we live in a day of self-styled professionalism for genealogy research, education, information, technology and materials, and citizen genealogy blogging, the consumer is having a very tough time finding trustworthy sites in their quest for accurate and trustworthy results and advice. And with the plethoration of Internet sources and resources, and lack of true professional authority, it is becoming even more difficult for the truth to be distinguished from all that is there, and even to find trusted professionals. There is a lot of fake genealogy to wade through online to find real genealogical information and qualified competent professional help. The consumer needs to have authoritative credentialed sources for genealogy results, data, information, technology, instruction, speaking, writing, and blogging. Such professionalism would enhance the credibility of both public and private domain family trees, blogs and genealogical materials and information now found on the Internet and in turn, benefit the consumer, the practitioner, and the emerging profession in Professional Genealogy Research Services.

We here at www.Heirlines.com support the establishment of such a profession in Professional Genealogy Research Services, with autonomous regulation by a professional organization composed of qualified members-only practitioners who can do professional genealogical research. and teach, write, and mentor for clients, students, professionals, governments, and private and public organizations on and off the Internet about professional genealogy. Here consumers will find qualified professionals with profession-regulated and recognized credentials capable of producing trusted verifiable professional genealogy research and authenticated information in all formats in research results, education, technology, and advice. Professionalization will help the savvy consumer find trustworthy practitioners and trusted results, sources, technology, blogging, teaching, writing, speaking, and all things genealogical.

Submitted by

Mary E. Petty, B.A. (History), B.A. (Genealogy)
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Ancestors are the People of History. Do you know who yours are?
Let the Professionals at HEIRLINES FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY find your ancestry!
1-800-570-4049 ▪ www.heirlines.com ▪ PO Box 893 ▪ Salt Lake City, UT 84110

© 2009, Heirlines Family History & Genealogy, Inc. All rights reserved.