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From: Jeanette Daniels <>
Subject: Re: [APG] degree vs genealogy and credentials
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 05:04:46 -0800 (PST)


Elissa,

Thank you for this email. I believe that you have said what really matters best.

Jeanette


----- Original Message ----
From: "Elissa Scalise Powell, CG" <>
To: LaRae Free Kerr <>;
Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2007 7:30:46 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] degree vs genealogy and credentials

I agree with LaRae and others who say that we should welcome all who have
shown they can do the work required to standards no matter how they came to
understand or practice these standards. Those whose work has been examined
by ICAPGen (holding the AG credential), BCG (holding the CG credential), and
universities should be proud of themselves for the road they traveled. No
one should be made to feel inferior for bettering themselves or our
genealogy field.

I do not like talking about any divide since, as it has already been pointed
out, it is not by category but individually that we need to judge the
worthiness of a person's work. I would prefer to address the individual
needs of people who share our interests and explore what APG can do to
address those needs.

(PS to statement below: APG does not bestow credentials.)

-- Elissa

Elissa Scalise Powell, CG
www.PowellGenealogy.com
CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for
Certification of Genealogists used under license after periodic evaluations
by the Board. http://www.BCGcertification.org/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LaRae Free Kerr
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 1:03 PM
>
> Those with ICAP and APG credentials do seem snobby and possessive (we're
> the
> only ones who really know how to do genealogical research) towards those
> with regular university degrees. While those with university degrees may
> treat "initialed" genealogists with a certain disdain because, after all,
> university degrees show the wider picture, right?
>
> I suggest that in order to develop any type of paying career in genealogy
> and family history, we genealogists quit our pettiness, welcome all with
> proven track records and turn about and face the real problem: the future
> of "true" genealogists no matter what credentials they have.






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