Credentials

Board for Certification of Genealogists

  • Certified Genealogist® credential no. 1093

  • Effective 5 September 2017 – 4 September 2027

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-present

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

  • 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-present  

    • 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. “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

  • 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

Genealogical

  • Association of Professional Genealogists

  • National Genealogical Society

  • New England Historic Genealogical Society

  • The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society

  • Utah Genealogical Association

  • Colorado Genealogy Society

Lineage

  • Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence

  • Daughters of the American Revolution (28 approved patriots)

  • First Families of Ohio

  • First Families of Pennsylvania