ESOG – Webinar – The Art of Self-Editing for Genealogists w Pam Anderson
The Art of Self-Editing for Genealogists
Presented by Pam Anderson, CG®
Program Description
“The Art of Self-Editing for Genealogists” focuses on editing genealogical manuscripts. Elizabeth Shown Mills first wrote in Evidence! Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian, 1997, “Effective source citation is an art, not a science. No formula can cover all situations.” The same applies to the skill of self-editing, which must be honed. This presentation begins with assessing our genealogical writing as a whole, progressing to paragraph development and organization, then to sentence structure, and finally to word choice, using Evidence Explained and The Chicago Manual of Style as our guides.
About the Speaker
Pam Anderson, CG®, is the owner of Anderson CoGen in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She used her master’s degree in Speech Pathology until changing careers in 1991, becoming owner of Anderson Construction until 2016. She began studying her family history in 2010, went professional in 2014, and obtained her CG credential in 2018. Pam mentored ProGen 47 in 2020-2021 and GenProof 95 in 2025 and has taught various courses on The Art of Self-Editing for Genealogists since 2023. Her articles have appeared in the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, National Genealogical Society Quarterly and Magazine, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Maryland Genealogical Society Journal, and Utah Genealogical Society Crossroads. She won the National Genealogical Society’s 2025 Family History Writing Competition.
Attendance Information
The Zoom room opens at 12:45 p.m. Eastern. A brief Society business meeting begins at 1:00 p.m., followed by the presentation and an open question-and-answer period.
Nonmembers who would like the Zoom link should email membership@esog.org. For more information, visit www.esog.org.