Billie Fogarty
Family Historian & Researcher since 1979, Lecturer and Lead Genealogist for HeritageTrackers, LLC
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- Business Name
- HeritageTrackers, LLC
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- Non-Research Specialties
- Author/Writer
- Columnist
- Compiler/Indexer
- Historian
- Instructor
- Lecturer/Presenter - On-site
- Lecturer/Presenter - Virtual
- Oral Historian/Interviewer
- Reunion Planner
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- Research Specialties
- Adoption
- African American
- American Indian
- Civil War
- Colonial
- Court Records
- Emigration & Immigration
- Federal Records
- Forensic
- House Historian
- Land Records
- Lineage Societies
- Mayflower
- Migration
- Military
- Naturalization
- Quaker
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- Research Counties
- Adair County, Oklahoma, United States
- Alpena County, Michigan, United States
- Boone County, Illinois, United States
- Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States
- Cherokee County, Kansas, United States
- Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States
- Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States
- Douglas County, Kansas, United States
- Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
- Harrison County, West Virginia, United States
- Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States
- Logan County, Oklahoma, United States
- Monroe County, Mississippi, United States
- Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States
- Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States
- Payne County, Oklahoma, United States
- Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States
- Prince William County, Virginia, United States
- Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States
- Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States
- Wabash County, Indiana, United States
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- Research Provinces / States
- Alabama, United States
- Arkansas, United States
- Colorado, United States
- Illinois, United States
- Indiana, United States
- Kansas, United States
- Kentucky, United States
- Mississippi, United States
- Missouri, United States
- New Mexico, United States
- Ohio, United States
- Oklahoma, United States
- Tennessee, United States
- Texas, United States
- Virginia, United States
- West Virginia, United States
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- Research Countries
- England
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- United States
- Wales
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- Research Time Periods
- 17th Century
- 18th Century
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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
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- Degrees
- MEd (Education), BS (Education, History)
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- 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
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- 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
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- Publications
- Guidebook to Researching My Family Tree (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 2010)
numerous family history books privately published for individual clients
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- 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
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- 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
Work Contact
Work Contact
| Phone: | (405) 203-1274 |
| Email: | billiefogarty@gmail.com |
| Street Address: | 4509 N. Classen Blvd |
| Address 2: | Suite 103 |
| City: | Oklahoma City |
| State/Province: | Oklahoma |
| Country: | United States |
| Zip/Postal Code: | 73118 |