GENTECH99

Anderson, Robert Charles, C.G., FASG, resides in Derry, New Hampshire. He is Director of Research for GENTECH, Director of the Great Migration Study Project for the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Co-editor of The American Genealogist. (S26)

Ashton, Alan C., Ph.D, is co-founder and president of WordPerfect Corporation. Graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a B.S. in mathematics. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from Brigham Young University. In 1987, Dr. Ashton left BYU to serve full time as the president and CEO of WordPerfect Corporation. Currently serving on the Board of Directors for Geneva Steel, SkyMall, InsurQuote, Bookcraft, Brigham Young University's Lighting the Way Campaign, International Power Technologies and the Department of Business Education and Development. (F13)

Ault, David A., Ph.D., has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Penn State University and is president of Smart Information Systems. He is also a board member of the Northwest Artificial Intelligence Forum, a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the International Neural Network Society. (S32)

Barrett, Bill, Ph.D., is currently serving as Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University. He heads an active research group that works in the areas of computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing. He is also director of a State Center of Excellence for Research of Interactive Visual and Imaging Technologies. Dr. Barrett received his Ph.D. in medical biophysics and computing and his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Utah. He was a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the Division of Computer Research and Technology, where he worked with the National Heart, Lung , and Blood Institute. (S38)

Booth, Robert, is manager of Architecture for Family History at the Family History Department, Salt Lake City, Utah, Product Manager for GEDCOM, and a member of the GENTECH Lexicon Working Group. (F16)

Burroughs, Tony, teaches genealogy at Chicago State University and lectures nationally on genealogy. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award from NGS. He co-authored the African American Genealogical Sourcebook (Gale Research, 1995) and appeared as a guest expert on the PBS series "Ancestors." He is a FGS Delegate and serves on the boards of APG, GENTECH, NEHGS Advisory Council, the Friends of Genealogy at Newberry Library and the U.S. Post Office Advisory Board. (F2; F14)

Eastman, Dick, is the author of the book YOUR ROOTS: Total Genealogy Planning On Your Computer published by Ziff-Davis Press and publishes Eastman's OnLine Genealogy Newsletter. Known to many as manager of the Genealogy Forum on CompuServe, he is a director of GENTECH and the New England Computer Genealogists and has been a genealogist for more than two decades, a computer professional even longer. He is a frequent lecturer on topics involving computers in genealogy. (F23)

Eneman, Sam, has been putting family history on video since 1976, teaching video classes for adults and children since 1988 and creating video, slide and multimedia programs professionally for more then 20 years. He has given presentations and workshops on creating family history videos at GENTECH97, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Savannah Area Genealogical Association, the Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, and the Museum of the New South. He is a co-founder and current chairman of the Charlotte Jewish Historical Society and coordinator of their video Oral History Project. (F18; S31)

Gormley, Myra Vanderpool, C.G., is an author of Family Diseases; Cherokee Connections, syndicated columnist and feature writer for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. She has written more than 1,000 articles on the subject of genealogy. Since 1990 she has been the online genealogy expert for Prodigy genealogy community and its web pages. She is also webmaster for several counties of the U.S.GenWeb project and is co-editor of Missing Links, a weekly e-zine. A former trustee of APG, she has lectured throughout the country at national and local seminars. (F10; S41)

Hatcher, Patricia Law, C.G., is the author of Producing a Quality Family History (Ancestry, 1996) and Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots (Pioneer Heritage Press, 1988), and co-author, with John V. Wylie, of Indexing Family Histories, Simple Steps for a Quality Product (NGS special publication, 1994). Her articles have appeared in over a dozen publications. A professional technical writer, she taught one-week courses on genealogical publishing at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and the Genealogical Institute of Texas. She is a Certified Genealogist specializing in colonial Virginia, Kentucky, and colonial New England; a trustee of the Association of Professional Genealogists; and the indexer of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. (F1; S28)

Hereth, Lyle, is the Manager of Information Technology at the Family History Department where he has worked for over fifteen years and has over twenty-five years experience in the technology arena. He has a B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology and a Masters in Engineering Administration. (F20)

Hightower, Paul, Ph.D., is a professor of journalism at Indiana State University, teaching photojournalism, computer-aided publishing and courses about the world wide web. Widely published in numerous academic, popular and genealogical books, he has presented papers at various local, state and national conferences including the Popular Culture Association, the Indiana State Genealogical Society and the International Communication Association. He publishes The Hightower News, an annual newsletter of the Hightower family and maintains a website at <http://hightower.indstate.edu>. (F5; S40)

Hill, Ronald Ames, Ph.D., C.G., received a Ph.D. in physics from Michigan State University. He retired from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dr. Hill has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications in plasma physics, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, and optical instrumentation. He is a Certified Genealogist specializing in English research. He has research ed over 25 years at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and many English repositories. He is a past president of the New Mexico Genealogical Society and has lectured at local and national conferences. (F8; S35)

Howells, Cyndi, is the creator and webmaster of Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, <http://www.CyndisList.com>, a categorized index to over 29,000 online resources. In its first two years, Cyndi's List has twice been voted the best genealogy site on the World Wide Web. It has had over 3 million visitors and has been featured by the History Channel web site and in several publications, including Newsweek, Yahoo! Internet Life, Family Chronicle and Home PC magazines. Cyndi, a genealogist for over 18 years, is an active member of, and webmaster for, the Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society in Washington. Cyndi is a guest lecturer for various genealogical society meetings and seminars. She is the author of a new book for genealogical research on the Internet entitled, Netting Your Ancestors, <http://www.CyndisList.com/netting.cfm>. (F6; S29)

Ivie, Evan, Ph.D., earned his BS in physics/BES in electrical engineering from BYU, his MS in electrical engineering from Stanford and hisPh.D in electrical and computer engineering from MIT. He has a special interest in applying computer science principals to genealogy. His experience includes: instructor for MIT and Stevens Institute of Technology; technical staff member and manager at Bell Laboratories; consultant for UNISYS, Novell, IBM, Segem-France, and Folio. He is currently on the faculty at Brigham Young University where he was named Computer Science Teacher of the Year in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989. (S30)

Johnston, James W., is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc.. He has been active in the electronic publishing industry since the mid-1980's. He is credited with producing one of the first "multi-media" CD-ROMs ever published, as well as the first diskette-based book that was accompanied by a text retrieval engine. He has served as a consultant to many prestigious organizations, including the Winston S. Churchill Family Trust, the Cambridge University Library's Darwin Letters Project, the Chicago Metro History Education Center, and the Abraham Lincoln Association. (S34)

Laxman, Richard J., has worked in the Family History Department for the past 22 years. He has been responsible for the design, manufacture, maintenance, and repair of microfilm cameras, processors, duplicators, and other related equipment. Such equipment is used to capture and distribute on microfilm documents having genealogical research value. He has spent the past eight years testing and integrating digital technology. Mr. Laxman is an active member of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and sits on the AIIM/ANSI standards committees that deal with electronic imaging. He has also worked in quality assurance of micrographic imaging. (F3; F7)

Mann, Alan E., A.G., has been an employee of the Family History Library for eleven years, first as a British reference consultant, and for the past five years as supervisor of the Automated Resource Center (ARC), He is responsible for computer-aided resources in the library, including CD-ROMs, online services, and FamilySearch . He is accredited in Channel Islands and English research. He is also adjunct faculty at BYU teaching British Family History research. He is the author of numerous articles and is a columnist for three computer magazines. (F15; S25; S37)

Meyerink, Kory L., A.G., is an accredited genealogist for Germany and the United States. He is currently doing professional research in Salt Lake City. He has served as the product manager for Ancestry, Inc., as well as the Family History Division of Infobases. For eight years, he was the Publications Coordinator for the Family History Library. He is the current President of UGA and former Executive Secretary of APG. He was the founding director of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. He is the author/presenter of Doing Genealogy and authored three chapters in The Source (new edition), and The Library. Kory has just completed editing and writing Ancestry's new book, Printed Sources. He is on BYU's genealogy faculty for their Salt Lake Center and annual Genealogy Seminar. (S27)

Renick, Barbara, lectures at local, regional and national genealogical conferences and is a contributing editor of the National Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group DIGEST. She is co-author of the book titled The Internet for Genealogists: A Beginner's Guide. (F4; F19)

Sharbrough, Beau, is President of GENTECH, Inc., and was Vice President of Technology when the Lexicon Working Group and the Data Exchange Project were initiated. He was Program Chair for GENTECH95 and GENTECH96. A graduate of Texas A&M with a BA in Philosophy, he has been a computer programmer since 1980. His articles have been published in Genealogical Computing, The Computer Genealogist and The Journal of OnLine Genealogy. He teaches a beginning genealogy class in the community education program in Grapevine, Texas. His area of special interest is data exchange, a topic on which he lectured at the FGS/DGS conference and several previous GENTECH conferences. (F21; S42)

Slade, James L., is active in genealogical research, writing, lecturing and teaching the responsible use of computers for research. He is leader of the Genealogy SIG of the Oklahoma City Computer Club, past Board Member of Oklahoma Genealogical Society and has served on various committees for GENTECH97 and GENTECH96. (F9; S36)

Snow, Donald R., Ph.D., is a professor of Mathematics at BYU, and has degrees in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in math. He has been involved with genealogy and computers for many years, and is the Vice President of the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. He co-developed and taught a free 8-week series of classes on PAF and FamilySearch and has been teaching this for the past 8 years at the BYU Library and elsewhere. He serves as the Director of the Family History Center of the Provo Utah Edgemont North Stake. (S33; S43)

White, Herbert J., II, works for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Family History Department. He has been involved with imaging projects for 28 years, but spent most of this time in the micrographics program. Herb was asked to assist in the development of the Electronic Imaging project and is now the Technology Specialist of Imaging and OCR for the Family History Department. Herb has served in several positions with AIIM International and is the past President of the Salt Lake AIIM Chapter. Nationally, Herb has been recognized with the Distinguished Service Award from AIIM (1994), the Thomas P. Anderson Sr. Micrographics Award (1995), and he was enrolled in the AIIM Company of Fellows in 1997. He received the Masters of Information Technologies Certificate from AIIM in 1997. In the area of Imaging Standards, He has served on the National Standards Board 1988-1994 and is currently serving a second term. Herb is a member of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to Technical Committee (TC) 171 of International Standards Organization and has also served on the International Council of Archives (ICA) Committee on Imaging Technology Group. (F3; F11)

Wylie, Barbara Brixey, is a national lecturer, researcher and writer. She is the editor of The Brixey Bulletin, past editor of the Garland Genealogical Society's Quarterly, and recipient of four Texas State Genealogical Society writing awards. She has articles published in Genealogical Computing, Heritage Quest, The Journal of On-Line Genealogy, Genealogical Helper, MoSCA Journal, Stirpes, and The Family Historian. Served on GENTECH's Board of Directors, Conference Chair for GENTECH97, and on the Syllabus Committee for several year. (F12; S24)

Wylie, John Vincent, is a full-time professional genealogist, writer and lecturer, who specializes in helping family historians learn to responsibly use computers. He also teaches beginning and intermediate genealogy across the county. He is immediate Past President of GENTECH, an active participant in the joint GENTECH-NGS-FGS-NEHGS Lexicon Working Group and is serving on the NGS Standards Committee. (F17; S39)