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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
Attend your group’s monthly meeting to discuss the article.
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2025 Articles for Study
January
Mack D. “Skip” Duett, “A Family for John and Rosannah (Hogg) Howard of Rhode Island, Vermont, and New York,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (June 2023): 111–128.
February
Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG, FASG, FUGA, FNGS, “Misleading Records Debunked: The Surprising Case of George Wellington Edison Jr.,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 100 (June 2012): 133–156.
March
Pamela Lyons Brinegar, CG, “The Case of the Missing Moffetts of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 108 (September 2020): 195–212.
April
Patricia Lee Hobbs, CG, CGG, and Barbara J. Garrison, PhD, “DNA Merges Families of Stephen Stilwell of Dutchess County, New York; Cornwall, Upper Canada; and Coshocton County, Ohio,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 112 (March 2024): 5–30.
May
Nancy A. Peters, CG, “Using Indirect Evidence to Find In-Laws for Conrad Peters of Monroe County, New York,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 99 (December 2011): 281–293.
June
Stephanie Carbonetti, CG, “Who was the Father of James Finney of Indiana?” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 112 (March 2024): 45–60.
July
Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG, FASG, FUGA, FNGS, “Logic Reveals the Parents of Philip Pritchett of Virginia and Kentucky,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 97 (March 2009): 29–38.
August
Lynn Nelson, CG, “Was Leonard Baumgardner (1755–1839) of York, Pennsylvania, the Father of Anna Maria “Mary” Wehrly Meyers (1791–1852)? Using Conflict Resolution to Establish Identity,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (December 2023): 275–288.
September
Tony Burroughs, “How Old was ‘Old Uncle Davie’ Truman of Fayette County, Pennsylvania?” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 107 (December 2019): 245–258.
October
Donna G. White-Dropkin, CG, “Same Name, Many Men: Joseph Reynolds in Early Greene County, Tennessee,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 112 (September 2024): 165–180.
November
Lana Leggett-Kealey, “Parents and Siblings for William M. C. Leggitt of Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 112 (December 2024): TBD.
December
No meetings in December.