Lake County Genealogical Society Meeting Announcement from Carla. Plan ahead for this great speaker and share with everyone. Guests always welcome! Cynthia Turk 440-951-0914 Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:00am at Morley Library THE DREADED RESEARCH REPORT Presented by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG Many people enjoy collecting family data and even putting it into lineage-linked software programs, but few relish writing their findings in a narrative form in order to share them. This lecture will try to take the pain out of that process by demonstrating that writing is an integral part of research, is a great way to involve family by sharing our history, and drives future research questions. Appropriate compilation standards and report types as mentioned in The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual will be illustrated. Elissa Scalise Powell, CG(SM), a western Pennsylvania researcher, is a Trustee for the Board for Certification of Genealogists, and their Exhibit Booth Coordinator. She is the instructor for the "Foundations," "Genealogy Profession" and online "Ethnic and Geographic Specialties" modules in Boston University's Genealogical Research Certificate program. Elissa is the Professional Genealogy Course Coordinator at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and was co-coordinator of the Accreditation/Certification Survey course at Salt Lake Institute 2010. She is a regional and national speaker on such topics as Pennsylvania records, methodology, professional development, and society management. She was a Director for the Association of Professional Genealogists for 6 years; co-edited a cemetery book series and appeared on the PBS-TV show "Ancestors 2" in the cemetery episode. You can see her in a video presentation on the BCG website and a video lecture from the 2009 Professional Management Conference on the APGen.org website (PMC webcast). She is a past-President of two societies, taught a beginning genealogy course at a community college for fourteen years and is a contributing author for many publications. ____________________________________________________________ Small Business Tools Compete with the big boys. Click here to find products to benefit your business. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=SA8PvDvNW8MLgpdJGR1-gAAAJ1Ca7WuQHBtp6-fKiGUdpYsBAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARMQAAAAA=