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Danette Nelson Anderson, RN, BSN
Danette Nelson Anderson is a Registered Nurse and holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Marthe Arends
Marthe Arends has
been involved in genealogy for 18 years. She has lectured on computers and genealogy
to many groups, has been the SysOp of a Fidonet genealogy BBS, has written articles
for a variety of genealogy publications, and currently writes fiction. Marthe has also written Genealogy
Software Guide and Genealogy
on CD-ROM, both published by the Genealogical
Publishing Company.
Lloyd Dewitt Bockstruck
Lloyd Dewitt Bockstruck, a native of Vandalia, Illinois, is the supervisor
of the Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas. He holds an A.B. cum laude from Greenville College, an M.A.
from Southern Illinois University, and an M.S. from the University of
Illinois.
Active in
numerous hereditary organizations, he has been the Librarian General
of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution and the
Registrar of both the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
and the Order of Founders and Patriots of America. A sought-after
public speaker on a number of topics, Mr. Bockstruck is widely
recognized as one of our leading authorities on the genealogical
sources of the American Revolution. In 1983 the National Genealogical
Society recognized him with its Award of Merit and in 1989 the
Daughters of the American Revolution gave him the History Award.
His other publications include Virginia's Colonial Soldiers
and Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants.
Tony Burroughs
Tony Burroughs is an internationally known genealogist, author, teacher, and
lecturer. He teaches genealogy at Chicago State University and is the
author of Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree. Mr.
Burroughs has been interviewed many times on radio and television Appeared as a guest expert in the PBS series Ancestors CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, ABC World New Tonight, & BET Nightly News. In 1996 he received the Distinguished Service
Award from the National Genealogical Society and co-authored the African-American
Genealogical Sourcebook (Gale Research 1995).
Mr. Burroughs
has been practicing genealogy for twenty years, having traced two family
lines back seven generations. He has extensive experience in libraries,
archives, historical societies and county courthouses. He has conducted
the African-American genealogy workshop at the National Archives —
Great Lakes Region for six years. He also lectures at local, state and
national genealogical conferences and has given half-day and full-day
workshops in over a dozen cities. He was the James Dent Walker Memorial
Lecturer in Richmond, Virginia in October 1994. His talks are on
all aspects of American Genealogy and African-American Genealogy.
Mr. Burroughs
is a graduate of the National Institute of Genealogical Research in
Washington, D.C. and the Institute of Genealogy and History at Samford
University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is past president of the Afro-American
Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago, Inc. and past curator
of the African-American Genealogy Collection at the Avalon Branch of
the Chicago Public Library. He also served on the board of directors
for the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the Afro-American Historical
and Genealogical Society in Washington, D.C.
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack is a Certified Genealogist, executive editor of Family Tree Books (formerly Betterway Books), contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine, and the author of
eight books, including A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female
Ancestors.
Sharon is also a consulting editor for Newbury Street Press (the publishing imprint of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) and a contract advisor for the National Writers Union. Sharon is a former editor for the NGS NewsMagazine; Speak! (the newsletter of the Genealogical Speakers Guild); and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly.
Natalie Cottrill
Natalie Cottrill is a professional genealogist who, for the past 10 years,
has concentrated upon researching United States family histories. She specializes
in solving problems with difficult pre-1850 U.S. lineages, immigration, 20th
century and common surnames. She has been President and CEO of ProGenealogists since its inception in 1998, and continues to work with her colleagues to build tools to promote research and customer service excellence within this organization. She also belongs
to the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and to Mensa, Intl.
David A. Fryxell
David A. Fryxell, former editor in chief of Writer's Digest magazine, is the publisher of Desert Exposure, a monthly tabloid serving southwestern New Mexico. He has also been editorial
director of Family Tree Magazine, America's most popular magazine
on discovering, preserving and celebrating your family history.
Myra Vanderpool Gormley
Myra Vanderpool Gormley has been a syndicated columnist and feature writer for the
Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Additionally, she writes articles on the subject
of genealogy for Colonial Homes magazine. She is the editor of RootsWeb Review, two weekly e-zine genealogy newsletters.
A certified genealogist, she has written three books, Prima's Official Companion
to Family Tree Maker, Family Diseases: Are You at Risk? and Cherokee
Connections. In her spare time she searches for her own elusive ancestors.
Alex Haley
After the appearance of the television program Roots in the late 1970s,
Alex Haley became one of the nation's most well-known genealogists. Indeed,
he is often credited with helping revive American interest in genealogy.
Although Alex Haley has passed away, he is still, in a way, influencing
American genealogists, because the idea for the genealogy television program
Ancestors
was his.
Kathleen W. Hinckley, CGRS
Kathleen W. Hinckley, is a Certified Genealogical Records Specialist, author, lecturer, and owner and operator of Family Detective. She also serves as the executive director of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and trustee for the Board for Certification of Genealogists.
Gary Hoffman
Gary Hoffman has been involved in genealogy research for over 30 years. He
is former president of the Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego and is CGSSD's
Webmaster. Currently a computer manager at the University of California's San
Diego campus, he recently received a law degree and passed the California bar
exam. His articles on technical and legal issues relating to genealogy have
appeared in several online publications and newsletters and he is a regular
speaker at national genealogy conferences.
Rhonda R. McClure
Rhonda R. McClure is a professional genealogist specializing in New England
research and computerized genealogy. She has been involved in on-line genealogy
for ten years. She was the Web Site Sysop for the Ultimate Family Tree web site.
She was the Data Manager of the Genealogy RoundTable on Genie® for seven
years and the forum manager for the Genealogy Forum on MSN®. She is the
author of The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy. She is currently a contributing editor
for Heritage Quest Magazine and Ancestry,
Inc.'s Genealogical Computing. She also writes a 5-day a week e-mail
newsletter, Family Tree Finders, for SodaMail.
Marcia Yannizze Melnyk
This article was excerpted
from The Weekend Genealogist: Time-Saving Techniques for Effective
Research by Marcia Yannizze Melnyk. Marcia Yannizze Melnyk is a professional
genealogist and former reference librarian at the New England Historical
Genealogical Society. She is the author of The Genealogist's Handbook
for New England Research 4th Edition, and was a contributing
expert to the PBS TV series "Ancestors."
Kory Meyerink
Kory Meyerink is an accredited genealogist who lives in Salt Lake City where
he currently conducts professional research for ProGenealogists.com, a division
of Ancestral Quest, and for Genealogical Research Associates. He is the author
of Ancestry's Printed Sources, past president of the Utah Genealogical
Society, founder of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, and teaches at many
national and local conferences.
Halvor Moorshead
Halvor Moorshead is the editor and publisher of Family Chronicle. This feature originally appeared in Family Chronicle magazine on
the Family Chronicle Web site.
David L. Mishkin
David L. Mishkin graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in
1969, where he earned a B.S. degree in photography. He owns and operates
"Just Black & White" in Portland, Maine, which is a custom processing laboratory
specializing in photographic copying, enhancements and restorations. "Just
Black & White" caters to a variety of museums, historical societies, genealogical
groups and photographers. The lab has worked on projects from historical
societies from Nain, Labrador to Point Barrow, Alaska. Mr. Mishkin is a member of the Genealogical Speakers Guild and has written
articles for several photographic magazines. He has had articles published
in New England Archivists, Heritage Quest, NEXUS, Search, The Connecticut
Nutmegger, Southern Queries, and Genealogical Helper.
Brian Mitchell
Brian Mitchell is the author
of the Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy, from which this article is
excerpted.
Michael John Neill
Michael John Neill is a regular columnist for the Ancestry Daily News and a math instructor at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois. He was the Part I studies coordinator at the former Genealogical Institute of Mid America and conducts a weeklong series of genealogy computer workshops every year for Carl Sandburg College. He is currently on the Federation of Genealogical Societies' Board of Directors.
Dr. Lyman D. Platt
Dr. Lyman D. Platt has extensive training in a number of modern languages and
has taught hundreds of seminars on ancient handwriting styles. Employed at the
Genealogical Society of Utah for seventeen years, Dr. Platt assisted in many
of that institution's international efforts, including the extraction program,
microfilming, and coordination with government and private agencies in preserving
and using records. He has been at the forefront of the development of genealogical
databases since their inception. He is recognized in many national and international
publications of contemporary authors, having published twenty-eight books, thirty-four
booklets and technical manuals, and written some fifty articles of genealogical
interest.
Pamela Boyer Porter
Pamela Boyer Porter, a Certified
Genealogical Records Specialist, is past editor of the Association of Professional
Genealogists Quarterly and the past chair of St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly,
and co-author of an NGS special publication, Research in Missouri.
She has lectured at numerous national conferences sponsored by the National Genealogical Society, Federation of Genealogical Societies, and GENTECH, and at numerous regional conferences. A graduate of
Eastern New Mexico University and member of Phi Kappa Phi honorary society,
Ms. Porter has completed genealogical studies at the Genealogical Institute
of Mid-America, Samford University's Institute on Genealogy and Historical
Research, and the National Institute on Genealogical Research at the National
Archives. She is an assistant director of the Regional In-depth Genealogical Studies Alliance, a board member of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild, and an honorary life member of the St. Louis Genealogical Society.
Donna Przecha
I began genealogy in 1970 when we were living in Ogden, Utah for a short time.
I was immediately hooked when, on my first visit to the local Family History
Center, I found my great-grandparents in the 1850 Ohio census. I have been researching
ever since on my own family and for others. I soon recognized the value of computer
programs for keeping track of the data. I was a founding member of the Computer
Genealogy Society of San Diego and editor of the newsletter. I have written
a third party manual on ROOTS III and, with Joan Lowrey, authored two guides
to genealogy software. Using ROOTS III and WordPerfect, I have written several
family history books for others, but have yet to stop researching long enough
to complete my own family history!
Carla Ridenour
Carla Ridenour is editor of the National Genealogical Society's Computer
Interest Group Digest
Diana Smith
Diana Smith and husband
Gary have had an interest in family history since childhood. She is currently
a volunteer librarian at the local LDS Family History Center, a Genealogy
Forum host on America Online, speaks to genealogy societies on a variety
of topics, and occasionally teaches a course at Polaris Career Center
(in the southwest suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio) on "genealogy on the computer"
(featuring Personal Ancestral File).
Elsdon C. Smith
Elsdon C. Smith has authored several name books, including The Story of Our Names, Dictionary of American Family Names, and Naming Your Baby. In addition, he co-founded the American Name Society in 1951.
Kip Sperry, CG, AG
Kip Sperry, CG, AG, is an Associate
Professor of family history at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
He is also a fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, the National
Genealogical Society, and the Utah Genealogical Association.
Maureen A. Taylor
Maureen A. Taylor, Owner and Principal of Ancestral Connections, combines her
background in history, genealogy, photography and library science to assist
individuals and institutions with research and project management. She is the
author of several genealogical books and articles including the recent Uncovering
Your Ancestry through Family Photographs (Betterway, 2000) and a guide to
family history for kids, Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors (Houghton
Mifflin, 1999). Her columns on genealogy appear in Ancestry Daily News
and in Reunions magazine.
Edith Wagner
Edith Wagner is the editor of Reunions magazine, author of Reunions
Workbook and Catalog and The Family Reunion Sourcebook (Lowell House,
Los Angeles) in bookstores now. She collects material for this column and Reunions
magazine from family reunions and invites you to share your reunion ideas, concerns
or questions.
John Wylie
John Vincent Wylie serves the Association of Professional Genealogists as Secretary, the National Genealogical Society (NGS) as a member of the NGS-GENTECH Advisory Committee and the National Standards Committee; the Dallas Genealogical Society as Special Interest Groups Leader and his church as Chair of the Information Technology Committee and as a member of its History Committee. From 2000 through 2004 he served on the Board of the Association of Professional Genealogists.
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