Credentials

Board for Certification of Genealogists

• Certified Genealogist® credential no. 1093

• Certified Genetic Genealogist® credential no. 3

• Certified Genealogical Lecturer® credential no. 51

• Credentials expire 24 June 2029

Vanderbilt University, MBA

Duke University, BA

leadership roles

• Board for Certification of Genealogists, trustee, 2020-present

• Board for Certification of Genealogists Education Fund, trustee, 2018-2025

• Boston University, Genealogical Research Program, facilitator and instructor, 2018-2024

• ProGen Study Group

  • Mentor, ProGen 46

  • Coordinator, ProGen 36

• GenProof Study Group, mentor, GenProof 62 & 81

• Daughters of the American Revolution

  • Colorado State Application Team, 2021-2025

  • Putnam Hill Chapter volunteer genealogist, 2016-2019

• Records Preservation & Action Committee (RPAC), BCG representative, 2020-2023

• Association of Professional Genealogists, professional development committee, 2018-2020

• Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council, membership chair, 2014–2019

Publications & lectures

Publications

• Green, Shannon. “The 1784 Tax Lists for Queens County, New York.” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 156 (July 2025): 186-234.

• ———. “Boost Your Productivity with an Accountability Group.” APG Quarterly (December 2023): 30-33.

• ———. “People Are More Than Names: Techniques for Differentiating Identities.” NGS Magazine (October–December 2023): 9-14.

• ———. “The Research Planning Process, Including Research Plans.” OnBoard 29 (May 2023): 1-3.

• ———. “A Widow and a Spinster Help Identify the Parentage of Sarah Hicks of New York City.” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 154 (April 2023): 85-93.

• ———. “Correlation: A Powerful Research Tool.” NGS Magazine (July-September 2022): 17-23.

• ———. “Incorrect and Incomplete: Mark Parmelee and Ruth Brown of Connecticut.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (Fall 2021): 298-305.

• ———. “Searching for the Parents of Sarah Lefler of Newark, New Jersey” Genealogy Magazine of New Jersey 95 no. 2 (May 2020): 67-82.

• ———. “Two Probates and Three Richards: Who Was Richard Bedell of Hempstead, Queens County, New York?” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 107 (December 2019): 259-270.

• ———. “Using Partition Records to Prove Parentage” Indiana Genealogist 29 (September 2018): 5-10.

• ———. “Broadening Search Parameters: A Case Study.” NGS Magazine (April-June 2018): 53-56.

• ———. “Parents for Cynthia (Parker) Wilcoxon of Ohio and West Virginia.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 105 (June 2017): 93-100.

• ———. “Connecting William W. Hawkins of Newark, New Jersey, and William Wallace Hawkins of New York City.” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 148 (October 2017): 265-277.

• ———. “Simeon Collins and Cynthia Painter: Overshadowed and Forgotten.” Connecticut Nutmegger 50 (November 2017): 98-110.

• ———. “Thomas Painter and Thomas Welcher Painter of New Haven County, Connecticut: Which Man is the Revolutionary War Patriot?” Connecticut Nutmegger 50 (July 2017): 47-52.

• ———. “Spotlight on Greenwich.” Connecticut Genealogy News (Summer 2016): 17-23.

• ———. “Review of Ancestry Academy.” Connecticut Genealogy News (Spring 2016): 17.

Lectures

I have lectured at the NGS Family History Conference, RootsTech, SLIG, and IGHR. Here are some lectures I have given:

• Applying for BCG Certification, 2025

• The Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS): A Review, 2024

• Lineage of Land: Tracing Property Without Recorded Deeds, 2023

• Standards Influencing Assemblage, 2023

• Spinsters & Widows: Using Women to Reconstruct Families, 2022

• Four Keys to Creating Complete and Accurate Transcriptions (and Why You Should), 2022

• Dealing with Dubious Sources, 2021

• Three Ways to Advance Your Research with Correlation, 2021

• Separating and Merging Same-Named Men, 2020

• Genealogy Tips & Tricks, 2018

• Getting Published – It Takes a Village, 2018

• Publishing in Journals: What’s in it for Me?, 2018

society memberships