Interested in becoming a certified genealogist or hiring a professional genealogist? Here is a wonderful organization that provides testing, certification, skill-building ideas, and a roster of peer-reviewed certificants who belong to this organization.

The British Columbia Genealogical Society (BCGS) was incorporated in 1971. Its members have been researching, preserving and publishing their own family histories and that of British Columbian families for more than 50 years.

This article compares several selected client-based genealogy programs. Web-based genealogy software is not included.