{"id":56,"date":"2016-10-09T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2016-10-09T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T16:16:22","slug":"becoming-a-certified-genealogist-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Certified Genealogist &#8211; An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A FABULOUS FIND of 15 Jan 2016<\/p>\n<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com 13 Jan 2016<\/p>\n<p>The clock is still ticking and now that we&#8217;re in the new year I&#8217;ve got less than 10 months to submit my portfolio requirements. \u00a0I actually accomplished way more than I thought I would during the holidays. My family kids me that I must be channeling the dead. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know about that but I certainly had some awesome finds that propelled me forward. \u00a0Here&#8217;s where I am and what I have to do:<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Preliminary application was submitted in October 2015 &#8211; DONE<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Signing the Genealogist&#8217;s Code &#8211; that&#8217;s easy!<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Background Resume &#8211; completed but needs to be reviewed and possibly updated right before submission &#8211; Almost Done<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0Document Work &#8211; BCG Supplied and Applicant Supplied. \u00a0All transcribed and written, just need to review and make a final edit. &#8211; Almost Done<\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0Research Report prepared for another person &#8211; started this in late December. \u00a0This was unexpected but I loved the hunt so decided to switch what I originally had planned to submit that was already finished. Completed the newly started report on December 31st and gave it to client on January 4th &#8211; DONE<\/p>\n<p>6. \u00a0Case Study &#8211; used a client&#8217;s second report I was working on instead of what I had originally thought I was going to do. \u00a0I finished it over the holidays with some wonderful documents that simply showed up! \u00a0Wish I could share this with you &#8211; a real twist and turn type of case. &#8211; Almost Done (haven&#8217;t given it to client yet but have appointment scheduled)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u00a0Kinship Determination KDP- have a great start but didn&#8217;t work on it much in the past month. \u00a0I&#8217;m still assembling documents and my problem is I don&#8217;t live anywhere close to the areas that the family lived. \u00a0I&#8217;m planning on a trip in March to one of the states but that still leaves me with a hole on the east coast and I wasn&#8217;t planning on being close to that area until July. \u00a0So, it&#8217;ll be slow going with this item. \u00a0I figure, unless a miracle occurs, I won&#8217;t be done with this until September and will just make the deadline but who knows? \u00a0I put the rest of the requirements together in a much quicker time period than I planned so maybe this will come together, too. \u00a0KDP 1\/3 Done<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, I&#8217;m glad that I had a skeletal idea of what I would be submitting before I actually committed to the process. I&#8217;m also thankful that I took the webinar about what certification entails so I had clear expectations of what was expected.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an update on my 2 past blogs regarding Ancestry.com and member family tree&#8217;s that reported a co-worker&#8217;s mother as deceased when she isn&#8217;t &#8211; I received an email from Ancestry staff on Monday directing me to have the deceased email them with her request to correct the records and to provide Ancestry with the URL&#8217;s of the trees. \u00a0I pulled the URL info and included it with the forwarded email to my co-worker who sent it off to her mom. \u00a0I was impressed that Ancestry responded so quickly, especially after the phone conversations I had with their support staff. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t think there was going to be any resolution! \u00a0I&#8217;m also very pleased that Ancestry stayed true to their confidentiality statement and understood how the problem impacted the affected family. \u00a0Kudos to Ancestry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FABULOUS FIND of 15 Jan 2016 Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com 13 Jan 2016 The clock is still ticking and now that we&#8217;re in the new year I&#8217;ve got less than 10 months to submit my portfolio requirements. \u00a0I actually accomplished way more than I thought I would during the holidays. My family kids me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=56\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Becoming a Certified Genealogist &#8211; An Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,42,40,22,37,26,36,33,39,41,34,35,24,25,38],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certification","tag-ancestry-com","tag-applying-for-genealogy-certification","tag-background-resume","tag-bcg","tag-case-study","tag-certified-genealogist","tag-client-report","tag-correcting-records","tag-document-work","tag-genealogists-code","tag-kdp","tag-kinship-determination-project","tag-on-the-clock","tag-professional-genealogist","tag-research-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}