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The NGSQ Study Groups meet once a month to discuss an article from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Groups meet online for 60 to 90 minutes to discuss the methodology used in the article and take turns moderating the discussions.
This study is based on the model set forth by Dr. William M. Litchman, where each participant reads the selected article from the NGSQ several times making notes about the research techniques, evidence, and logic used in solving the genealogy problem.
jOIN A gROUP
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sTUDY THE aRTICLE
Read the article for the month. You may need to take notes and/or create charts to help you better follow the evidence.
mEET AND dISCUSS
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2026 Articles for Study
January
Elizabeth Shown Mills CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, FUGA, “Identifying a Teenage Mother in Rural Pre-1850 America: the FAN Suggests and atDNA Confirms Shadrack Odom’s First Wife,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (December 2023): 245–274.
February
Shannon Green, CG, CGG, CGL, “Stephen Hicks of Flushing, Queens County, New York: Identifying His Children Through Uncommon Sources,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (September 2025): 165–178.
March
Mary Kircher Roddy, CG, CGG, “Who are the Children of John Bradley of County Tyrone, Ireland, Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Scott County, Iowa?” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 112 (December 2024): 283–299.
April
Darcie Hind Posz, CG, FASG, “New Jersey Pickels and a North Carolina Bückel: A DNA Cluster Links Two Distant Lines of Descent,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (March 2025): 5–19.
May
Carolyn Schott, CG, “Finding the Father of Katharina Bohlander, a Black Sea German,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (September 2025): 213–230.
June
Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG, FASG, “History of a Genealogical Error: The Misattributed Parentage of Atlanta Pioneers, Meredith and Merrell Collier,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (June 2025): 103–116.
July
Paul K. Graham, CG, CGG, AG, “Joseph Lyon of Laurens District, South Carolina, and the Lyon House of DeKalb County, Georgia: A Corrected History,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (September 2025): 197–211.
August
Michelle Roos Goodrum, CG, “Erickson, Oleson, or Jordahl: Unraveling Peter’s Multiple Identities in Freeborn and Becker Counties, Minnesota,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (June 2025): 85–102.
September
Michelle Chiachiere, “Parents for Roxena Lawson: Assembling a Maine Family through Kentucky Marriage and Court Records” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (March 2025): 55–68.
October
Jenny Rizzo Irwin, CG, AG, “Generations of Familial Ties Identify Parents for Nathaniel Atwell of New York,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 112 (June 2024): 121–134.
November
Elizabeth Shown Mills CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, FUGA, “Identifying Ursule, the Métive Barthélemy LeCourt ‘Took as His Wife’,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (March 2025): 31–53.
December
No meetings in December.