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Writing Contest Overall Winner 2024

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Indirect Evidence Proves Sarah Headley as Mother of Ohio-Born Barney Dewitt,” Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly.

Writing Contest Overall Winner 2023

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Identify John Noggle as Sarah Noggle’s Father in Early Nineteenth Century Wayne County, Ohio,” Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly.

Jan Joyce Ahrens, “Using Indirect Evidence and Sibling Relationships to Prove Mary Duey as the Mother of Samuel Joyce,” Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly, 57 (May 2017): 161-166.

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Effective Research Questions,” OnBoard, V 31, no 1, (January 2025): 4-5. 

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Top Ten Questions about the BCG Pilot Program,” OnBoard, V 30, no 2, (May 2024): 12-13. 

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Defining, Understanding, and Seeking the Negatives,” OnBoard, V 30, no 1, (January 2024): 1-3. 

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Yes, Online Memorials and Family Trees Can Provide Direct Evidence,” OnBoard, V 29, no 2, (May 2023): 4. 

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Diving Deep Into Analysis,” Crossroads Magazine, V 19, no 1 (Winter 2024): 28-37.

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “SLIG Wants You!...to Propose a New Course,” Crossroads Magazine, V 19, no 1 (Winter 2024): 14-16. 

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Literature Reviews are not just for Academicians! Advance Your Genealogy Research,” Crossroads Magazine, V 16, no 1 (Winter 2021): 28-32.

Jan Joyce, “Hypothesis Development to Solve Genealogical Challenges:  Conflicting Evidence for George Joyce and the 1800 Census,” Crossroads, 12 (Summer 2017).

Jan Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM), AG®, “Creating and Using Locality Guides as Genealogical Tools” National Genealogical Society Magazine, V 48, no 3 (July - September 2022): 31-35.

Jan M. Joyce, DBA, CG®, CGL(SM) “How’s My Writing? Guidelines for Constructive Yet Tactful Peer Reviewing,” Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, XXXIV, no 4 (December 2019): 24-29.

Jan M. Joyce, DBA “Developing Creative Hypotheses to Solve Genealogical Challenges” Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, XXXIII, no 4 (December 2018): 15-20.

Jan M. Joyce, “Marketing for Genealogists – Developing Products and Getting Referrals” lecture, 2020 Association of Professional Genealogists – Webinar Series, (Online live webinar: 20 April 2020).

Jan M. Joyce, “796 Acres Acquired in 36 Years: A Story of Land Acquisition and Its Cagey Distribution in Holmes County, Ohio,” (December 2018).

Jan M. Joyce, “Susan Gliddon of Bridgerule, Devon, England; and Summit County, Ohio: One Person or Two?” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 105 (December 2017): 261-272.

Jan M. Joyce, “Creative Hypothesis Development for Complex Genealogy Problems,” lecture, 2020 Legacy Family Tree Webinars – Webinar Series, (Online live webinar: 21 January 2020).