The inaugural issue of the International Internet Genealogical Society Journal (IIGS™J) will be published on the IIGS™ website in September 1997. Please refer to the IIGS™J's Call for Articles for a discussion of the kinds of material IIGS™J wishes to publish.
The goals of the IIGS™J are (1) to publish articles written by and for genealogists worldwide that will be of lasting interest to a global readership and (2) for such articles to be of a quality comparable to that of articles published in such scholarly genealogical journals as the New England Historical and Genealogical Register and the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
To these ends, we ask genealogists in all parts of the world to consider what they might contribute to the IIGS™J for the benefit of their global cousins. Articles should be prepared in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press) and Richard S. Lackey's Cite Your Sources: A Manual for documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1980).
Articles should include a complete source citation for each statement of fact that is not a matter of common knowledge. Always cite any direct quote; any statement that proves a link in a relationship; and always give the citation for any point of controversy. The first time a reference note appears it should be in complete form. However, subsequent references may be in a short form. References will be included as endnotes, eliminating the need for an annotated bibliography. However, "how-to" articles or those discussing genealogical and historical sources do not require footnotes, but should include a bibliography.
We hope that presenting material prepared in accordance with established standards will cause the IIGS™J to become a tool of instruction for genealogists in form as well as content.
Your editors will be happy to work with you. Queries are welcome regarding any articles you wish to submit.
Myra Vanderpool Gormley is a certified genealogist, syndicated columnist and feature writer for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. She is the co-moderator of Prodigy's Genealogy Interest Group and serves as co-editor of Missing Links, a weekly on-line newsletter. Additionally, she is associate editor of International Internet Genealogical Society Journal; webmaster for Muskogee and McIntosh (Oklahoma) counties' web pages, Newton County, Arkansas and Creek Nation, Indian Territory web pages; contributing editor of Heritage Quest and American Genealogy Magazine and writes regularly for Colonial Homes. She is author of Family Diseases: Are You at Risk? and Cherokee Connections and more than a thousand articles on the subject of genealogy.
She is an advisor for the genealogy/family history certificate program at the University of Washington and served as a consultant on Ancestors, the recently aired PBS-TV series.
She is a member of many genealogical and historical societies, including Board for Certification of Genealogists, Association of Professional Genealogists, The Oregon-California Trails Association, Council of Genealogy Columnists and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has been a guest on dozens of television and radio programs throughout the United States and Canada, and has addressed numerous genealogical and historical groups at luncheons, seminars and workshops. Among her awards are the DAR Continental Congress Special Recognition Award for her article on the Family Tree Genetics Project and the National Genealogical Society's Award of Merit for distinguished work in genealogy.
Julia M. Case, a 1967 graduate of The George Washington University (A.B. English Lit.), is a professional genealogist whose main interest is Colonial Virginia. Her transcriptions of 17th century Henrico County court records have appeared in The Magazine of Virginia Genealogy and her articles have also appeared in American Genealogy Magazine and Archives News. She has served as an instructor for the National Geneaogical Society's home study course, American Genealogy: A Basic Course, and as trustee of the Friends of the Virginia State Archives and of the Association of Professional Genealogists. A member of the West Augusta Chapter NSDAR, NEHGS, NGS, NCGS, and lifetime member of VGS, she is co-moderator of the Genealogy Interest Group on Prodigy Classic and Prodigy Internet, Editor-at-Fault of the e- zine "Missing Links: A Weekly Newsletter for Genealogists," and Associate Editor of the quarterly Journal of the International Internet Genealogical Society (IIGS™J).
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