Billie Stone Fogarty, a full time professional genealogist, is past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists. 

A frequent speaker at national and state genealogy conferences, she is also former president of the Genealogical Speakers Guild. Billie is active on the regional, state, and local level in advancing genealogical research and open records access as the state liaison for the Records Preservation and Access Committee.

She serves the Oklahoma Genealogical Society (7 terms as President, Board of Directors) and the Oklahoma Historical Society (Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Research, Publications, and Development Committees).

Her background as an educator shows through in her passion for leading others to discover their own family history. A more complete biography is available by email at billiefogarty@gmail.com, or by postal mail at: Billie Fogarty, P.O. Box 12964, Oklahoma City, OK 73157-2964

Publications/Media
Guidebook to Researching My Family Tree (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 2010) numerous family history books privately published for individual clients

Lectures
American Indian Ancestry: ? Discovering a National Treasure: The American Indian Archives ? Discovering the Trail of Tears Online ? Effectively Using the American Indian Collection on Ancestry.com ? Online Sources for Native American Research ? Proving Indian Ancestry ? Trail of Tears to Indian Territory ? Verifying the Legend of Native American Ancestry Ethnic Ancestry: ? African American Ancestry ? African Americans in the Rev War ? Black Jack Pershing and the Chinese Mexicans Female Ancestors: ? Bundling, Banns, and Bonds: Love and Marriage in Early America ? Finding Females in the Colonial Period ? Discovering Women in Colonial America Emigration, Immigration, Migration, & Naturalization: ? Across America: Migration Routes of Our Ancestors ? Coming to America: Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor ? Immigration & Naturalization ? Indian Trails to Interstates ? Journey from Kentucky to Missouri Along the Ohio River ? Land Runs, Lotteries, and Homesteads ? Settlement American Style ? Southern Migration Trails ? Trails of Our Ancestors Land Records: ? Bounty Land & the American Soldier ? Homestead Act and Land Entry Files ? How the Public Land Survey System Shaped Our Country ? Measuring the Land by the Public Land Survey System Lineage Societies & Research: ? DAR & Genealogy ? Honoring Our Ancestors: First Families of the Twin Territories ? What s My Line? Documenting for Lineage Societies Military: ? African Americans in the Revolutionary War ? Bounty Land & the American Soldier ? Did My Ancestor Serve in a War? ? Finding Military Records ? Finding Your Civil War Ancestor ? Finding Your Revolutionary War Patriot ? How the War of 1812 Impacted Illinois ? Oh Say, Can You See: Causes, Participants, and Records of the War of 1812 ? Salute to Veterans: Researching Our Ancestors' Military Service ? War of 1812: the Forgotten War ? 1812 Bounty land in Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri Miscellaneous: ? Conducting Effective Oral Interviews ? Did Your Ancestor Make the News? ? Document Your Family?s Health History ? Effective Use of the Internet ? Galveston Hurricane and Other Disasters ? Genealogy Resolutions I Can Keep ? Have Ancestors...Will Travel: Taking a Genealogy Trip ? Picking Cherries Without Hitting the Pits: Using Other's Research Wisely ? The Great Madrid Earthquake and Other Calamities That Shook Our Ancestors ? Using Quaker Records for a Colonial Family ? What's Online That I Shouldn't Miss ? When and How to Hire a Professional Genealogist Organizing, Preserving, Sharing, & Writing Your Research: ? How Do I Keep All This Stuff Straight: Organizing Your Research ? On Your Mark, Get Set, STOP! What to Do Before You Publish ? Organization for the Genealogist ? Organizing Your Genealogy Electronically ? Share Your Research Without Putting Your Relatives to Sleep ? Write It or Lose It: Preserving Your Family's History ? Writing for the Future Society Management: ? Balancing the Needs of the Genealogical Speaker and the Society ? Getting the Speaker Your Society Needs ? Team Building in a Me-Centered Society ? When, Why, & How to Fire a Volunteer For a more complete listing contact Billie at billiefogarty@gmail.com

Repositories
American Indian Archives, Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma Historical Society Research Library, Oklahoma City, OK National Archives, Washington, DC National Personnel Records Center, St Louis, MO Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN National Daughters of the American Revolution Library, Washington, DC Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Research Time Periods

• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century
• 17th Century

Certificates
National Institute on Genealogical Research - Federal Records, 2001 National Institute on Genealogical Research ? Federal Records, 2007 Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research - Advanced Military Research III: Mexican War, Indian Wars, & Civil War, 2008 Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research - Military Records Research II: Colonial Wars, French & Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Regular Army, 2011 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum, 2012 Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research - Genealogy as a Profession, 2013 Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research ? Instructor, Five Civilized Tribes, 2013 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - Principles of Forensic Genealogy, 2013 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - Advanced Genealogical Methods, 2014 Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy - Forensic Genealogy Institute, 2014 Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy - Advanced Forensic Evidence Analysis, 2014 International Genetic Genealogy Conference ? Inaugural Conference, 2014 Ancestry Academy - Homesteads: An American Treasure, 2015 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - You Be the Judge: A Practicum Using Standards to Evaluate Genealogical Work, 2017 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - Early U. S. Church Records, 2018 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - Instructor, Native American Research, 2019 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - Technical Writing for Genealogists, 2020

Affiliations
Association of Professional Genealogists, Board of Directors, Life Member, president 2016-2019, Genealogical Speakers Guild, president 2012-2015 Federation of Genealogical Societies, Delegate Records Preservation and Access Committee, State Liaison Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Life Member, Board Member & Officer Oklahoma Historical Society, Life Member, former Board Member, Executive Committee & Research Committee chair National Genealogical Society, member Utah Genealogy Association, Life Member National Institute on Genealogical Research, alumna (now called Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed), former trustee Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research, alumna and former instructor Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, alumna and former instructor New England Historic Genealogical Society, member

Degrees
MEd (Education), BS (Education, History)