BCG Announces Two New Emeritus
Board for Certification of Genealogists
Press Release: 9 November 2007
For additional information, contact:
Connie Lenzen, CG @ clenzen@dialoregon.net
BCG Announces Two New Emeritus
In the 43 years of BCG's history, nearly 2,000 genealogists have earned certification,
but only twelve have earned the Emeritus status that is granted to retired
or semi-retired certificants who have had a long and distinguished career with
BCG. Two distinguished certificants have been added to the list: Jeanne Hand
Henry, CG, and Joy Reisinger, CG.
Jeanne Hand Henry, CG.
Across the four decades that Jeanne has been associated with BCG, she has
been not just a genealogist, but a mentor to many. She has not merely held
our credential but has held up the standards of BCG as the gold-standard for
all who have worked with her on a professional, society, or family basis.
As a CG, Jeanne helped to found the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society,
which she also served as president. She has been a mainstay of the Alabama
Genealogical Society, was one of the first Alabama genealogists to support
the Association of Professional Genealogists, and was a charter member of its
Alabama chapter. Across her career, she has guided many regional lineage societies-including
Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge, and Colonial Dames of the
Seventeenth Century-helping local chapters to strive for the higher standards
that BCG represents. She was awarded the Jefferson Davis Medal for her research
in Confederate records and the Tennessee Valley Commissioners Certificate of
Appreciation for distinguished leadership and outstanding service to the community
(1994).
The growth she has accomplished across her many CG renewals, is represented
in the five books she has published-three genealogies and two sets of compiled
records-and in the fact that her work is cited in peer-reviewed academic journals
and most academic studies of freemasonry. Jeanne is considered a pioneer in
the genealogical use of freemasonry records. But, more importantly, she was
a pioneer in the effort to professionalize genealogy through certification.
Joy Reisinger, CG.
Joy has been an active participant in the work of the Board throughout more
than a decade of service, as trustee and vice president. Among her lasting
achievements is the creation of the Board's first policy manual. Beyond her
role as trustee and officer, Joy has been a mentor in the broadest sense to
numerous colleagues, and more specifically to a number of applicants for certification.
By her actions she has fostered genealogical excellence and encouraged adherence
to the Board's standards for the field. Outside her work with the Board, Joy
was the program chair for NGS in Saint Paul in 1989 and Milwaukee in 2002.
She lectured at NGS conferences in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Biloxi, St.
Paul, Arlington, Portland, Baltimore, Houston, San Diego, Nashville, Valley
Forge, Denver, Richmond, Providence, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. Joy lectured
for FGS conferences in Boston, Salt Lake City, Fort Wayne, Richmond, Seattle,
Rochester, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Davenport, and Ontario, California. She has
been a trustee nd vice president of APG, her work there having been recognized
with that organization's Smallwood Award. She was a founding member of the
Genealogical Speakers Guild.
The National Genealogical Society awarded Joy both its Award of Merit and
its Award of Distinction; the Federation of Genealogical Societies recognized
her service with its Presidential Citation and Award of Merit. She was active
in the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, and published the respected quarterly,
Lost in Canada? from 1974 through 1995. Joy compiled the Index to NGS and FGS
Conferences and Syllabi. She lectured throughout North America at numerous
state and local conferences. Joy has written articles for TAG and NGSQ and
was a chapter author for ProGen. She was a lecturer at the Institute for Genealogical
and Historical Research at Samford University in the summer of 2003.
Joy was instrumental in the decade-long fight to assure public access to pre-1907
vital records in Wisconsin, and was invited to attend the bill-signing session
as a representative of Wisconsin's genealogical community at the state capitol.
Since its founding in 1964, the Board for Certification of Genealogists has
promoted - in research, lectures, and publications - attainable, uniform standards
of competence and ethics that have become generally accepted throughout the
field. Its publication The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual sets forth the
currently accepted standards for all areas of genealogical research.
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