Presenter Profile: Pamela K. Sayre

Pamela Boyer Sayre, CG, CGL, is director of education and publications for NGS and coordinator for Samford University’s IGHR Techniques and Technology course. She has also taught in the Advanced Military and Southern Research courses at IGHR and in the Certification/Accreditation course at Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Pam is co-author of Online Roots: How to Discover Your Family’s History and Heritage with the Power of the Internet (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 2003); Research in Missouri (Arlington, VA: NGS, 1999 & 2007); the Missouri chapter in the third edition of Ancestry’s Red Book (Provo, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 2004), and she was the FGS FORUM’s Digitools columnist for several years. Pam is a former board member of FGS, NGS, and the Genealogical Speakers Guild, past editor of the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, former chair of APG’s Publications Advisory Committee, and former copy editor of the BCG publication OnBoard.

Born in St. Louis and reared in New Mexico, Pam received a bachelor’s degree with emphasis in sociology, English, and history from Eastern New Mexico University. She completed some coursework toward an MBA (emphasis in Computer Information Systems) from Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts. Easily bored in earlier years, Pam worked in law enforcement, personnel administration, and software testing, training, and documentation before following her heart to become a full-time professional genealogist in 1994. She has spoken at genealogy conferences and seminars in thirty states.

Pamela is teaching "Google Earth for Genealogists" on Wednesday at 2:30pm, "Effective Editing and Writing" on Saturday at 9:30 am and "Westward Ho! But How?" on Saturday at 4:00pm.