Since 2004, the BCGS has held an annual Most Improved Genealogist Contest. Many of the entries have then been published in the Society’s journal, The British Columbia Genealogist.

How to Enter

All BCGS members are eligible to enter. Just submit your report, publication, website information, family tree charts, etc. to the BCGS Education Committee by the November General Meeting night to be eligible for that year’s contest. Contact Eunice Robinson, BCGS Education Chair, for more information.

BCGS Most Improved Genealogist 2012, Richard P. Murray, with Eunice Robinson, BCGS Education Chair, just after the presentation at the BCGS Christmas Social in December 2012 in Burnaby.

Mr. Murray’s entry will be published in The British Columbia Genealogist’s March issue in 2013.

Elvin Meyers, above, the BCGS’s Most Improved Genealogist for 2010, with Eunice Robinson, BCGS Education Chair.

Elvin’s winning article, “Edgar and Ethel”, was published in the December 2010 issue of the BCGS journal.

Photographs courtesy BCGS member George Caldwell.

BCGS Most Improved Genealogist Winners, 2004-2012