After a second career as a professional genealogist Gerald (Jerry) Smith, has retired from client research, now concentrating on his own ancestry, unfinished book projects, and teaching. He is the IGHR and SLIG course coordinator for metes & bounds land platting. He is on faculty for IGHR, SLIG, and GRIP teaching topics in the military, maps, and land record institutes. He has published a number of books and articles, including abstracts of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Court of Quarter Sessions records. While he resided and researched for many years in Pennsylvania, he recently moved to Illinois to make sure his granddaughter grows up appreciating her family history.
Courses
- 2026 – Understanding Land Records
- 2025 – Course Eight – For Land’s Sake! Advanced Analysis and Platting
- 2024 – Course Eight – Understanding Land Records
- 2023 – Course Six – Military Records III: Advanced Research and Methodology
- 2023 – Course Eight – For Land’s Sake! Advanced Analysis and Platting
- 2022 – Course Six – Military Records II: Intermediate Research – Beyond the Basics
- 2022 – Course Eight – Land Records: Using Maps in Genealogical Research
- 2021 – Course Eight – Understanding Land Records
- 2020 – Course Six – Military Records III: Advanced Research and Methodology
- 2020 – Course Eight – For Land’s Sake! Advanced Analysis and Platting
- 2019 – Course Six – Military Records II
- 2019 – Course Eight – Land Records: Using Maps
- 2017 – Course Two – Intermediate Genealogy and Historical Studies
- 2017 – Course Eight – Understanding Land Records
