Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com 22 May 2016<\/p>\n
I\u2019m finishing up with my portfolio for submission to the Board for Certification of Genealogists and I have butterflies in my stomach!\u00a0 Officially, I have until late October but since I selected several papers that I had previously done for clients last fall and winter, I am about finished.<\/p>\n
At the National Genealogical Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, I was able to view successful portfolios that were submitted.\u00a0 I also found it useful to be able to pick the brains of some of the Certified Genealogists (CGs) that attended the “On the Clock” dinner.\u00a0 \u00a0So glad I was able to attend and meet several other \u201cOn the Clockers\u201d and those on the other side.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the National Genealogical Society conference enabled me to further refine my skills and now I pulled out the Kinship Determination Paper I finished last month and reread it yesterday.\u00a0 I caught one missing comma and changed one sentence. \u00a0I’m satisfied with the content and the numbering so I just need to take another look at my footnotes. \u00a0I had bolded a few that I knew weren\u2019t quite right as I was so into the writing I didn\u2019t want to stop and lose the momentum. \u00a0I also need to make sure I\u2019ve been consistent with my citations. The next few weeks I’m busy with other tasks so I probably won’t revisit it until mid-June.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m still uncertain if I should hold off portfolio submission until after an upcoming trip to DC this summer or not.\u00a0 On the one hand, I want to submit before I get extremely busy with my full time job in late July.\u00a0 On the other hand, I have this nagging feeling that the missing record in Pennsylvania will miraculously show up if I look one more time.\u00a0 The document was supposedly misfiled in the 1960\u2019s and hasn\u2019t been found since.\u00a0 Why in the world I think if I look again I\u2019ll find it now I don\u2019t know!\u00a0 I\u2019ve already looked twice over the past 5 years AND hired someone to try to find it.\u00a0 Clearly the \u201c3rd<\/sup> time\u2019s the charm!\u201d as my mom used to say didn\u2019t happen and a fourth visit would be beyond reasonably exhaustive.\u00a0 \u00a0My thought process is bordering on irrational and I realize that. \u00a0This certainly is like the tongue in cheek meaning of insanity – doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result!<\/p>\n Reflecting on my behavior I see this as d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu \u2013 I did the same thing when I was ready to submit my portfolio to the National Board of Certified Teachers several years ago.\u00a0 One morning I woke up and I knew that there was no more I could do so I just packed it all up and mailed it off.\u00a0 Even so, I stood in Office Depot and just stared at the box.\u00a0 The clerk was nice, though I\u2019m sure she thought I was nuts.\u00a0 She told me to take as long as I wanted.\u00a0 As soon as she said that, I was able to let it go.<\/p>\n Now I have to decide if I\u2019m going to send it snail mail or electronically.\u00a0 Decisions, decisions!\u00a0 Another way to procrastinate finality! \u00a0Will keep you informed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com 22 May 2016 I\u2019m finishing up with my portfolio for submission to the Board for Certification of Genealogists and I have butterflies in my stomach!\u00a0 Officially, I have until late October but since I selected several papers that I had previously done for clients last fall and winter, I am about … Continue reading “An Update on Submitting the BCG Portfolio”<\/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":[22,26,45,34,35,44,24,25],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certification","tag-bcg","tag-certified-genealogist","tag-genealogy-potfolio","tag-kdp","tag-kinship-determination-project","tag-national-board-certified-teachers","tag-on-the-clock","tag-professional-genealogist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}