Laurie Ann Cornwell Aldinger is a native of Wisconsin born to Donald and Joyce Cornwell. She is married to Thomas Lee Aldinger and they have three sons:  Tony, Michael and Steven.  Laurie holds a B.A. in Accounting from North Central College, and a M.B.A. in Financial Accounting from Illinois Benedictine University.  She is currently the Treasurer for Epiphany Formation. Laurie and her husband Tom remain active in a variety of civic and historical groups, and Laurie is currently enrolled at the College of Charleston, studying the Classics.  

Past employers include Zodiac Boats (SC), Carolina Speech and Language (SC), McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd (London), and Chicago Bridge & Iron (IL).

Laurie’s contributions to the lineage society community are extensive, and she has provided primary leadership in a number of organizations.  

Membership

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General)

• National Americans of Royal Descent (Third Vice President)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne of the USA (Treasurer)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Treasurer)

• Military Order of the Crusades (Treasurer)

• Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence (Recording Secretary)

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXXI President)

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of the Three Crusades

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• National Society of Dames of the Court of Honor (South Carolina Chapter President)

• National Society Colonial Dames of 17th Century (South Carolina State Treasurer)

• National Society Daughters of American Colonists (Chapter President)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars, Chapter Treasurer

• National Society of the Daughters of American Revolution

• National Society Daughters of 1812

• Daughters of Colonial Wars

Anna Boykin Ferguson Duff, a native Georgian, is the daughter of Lonnie Dunlap Ferguson and Georgia Angeline Boykin Ferguson. She is married to Steven Wayne Duff and they reside in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Mrs. Duff's childhood education was in Thomasville, Georgia and she later graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens with a major in Furnishing and Interiors. She has been a member of the NSCDA for thirty plus years. During that time, Mrs. Duff has been a member of the Georgia, North Carolina and New York Societies, serving three years as President of the latter. She served as National President of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the fourth member of the New York Society to be elected to that office in the history of the organization. Prior to being installed as President of the NSCDA, she served as Vice President NSCDA National Headquarters Dumbarton House and Chair of the National Museum Properties Committee.

Society Memberships

• National Society of The Colonial Dames of America (National President)

• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Second National Vice President General)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of the Crown in America

• National Gavel Society

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

• Chivalric Orders

• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Priory of St. Michael and St. George)

Notes

Mrs. Duff serves on the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall Plantation and is a Trustee of the Friends of Sulgrave Manor. She is an accomplished pianist and enjoys playing for friends. The Duffs are Episcopalians. Mrs. Duff and her husband enjoy traveling, entertaining and playing golf whenever possible.

Timothy Christopher Finton is a true native of Washington, D.C.  He is the son of Colonel James Robert Finton (USAF) and Iris Hammer Finton, and is married to Tonya Thomas Finton.  The Fintons have two sons, Christopher James Grenfell Finton and Thomas William Goodwin Finton.

Tim was graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University with an A.B. in History.  He received his M.A. with honours, in Jurisprudence, from the Queen’s College, University of Oxford; and his Juris Doctor at American University’s Washington College of Law.

Tim has enjoyed a 40-year career with the U.S. Department of State specializing in Internet policy and trade, and is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.  

Society Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut (Standing Committee, Assistant Treasurer)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Governor, District of Columbia Society)

• Society of Colonial Wars (District of Columbia, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina societies current Vice-Chairman, Awards Committee for the General Society)

• Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Governor, District of Columbia Society)

• Jamestowne Society

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699

• The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Saints Andrew's Society of Washington, DC

• Sons of the Revolution, District of Columbia (former 1st Vice President, Virginia)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• Society of the War of 1812 (former President, District of Columbia Society)

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Descendants of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry "Hardtack Regiment"

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Treasurer General)

• Dutch Colonial Society (Honorary President General)

• Huguenot Society of America

• National Huguenot Society (District of Columbia societies - former 1st Vice President, Virginia)

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Order of the Crown in America (Secretary General, Chaplain General)

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the USA

• Order of Alba

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• National Gavel Society

• The Pilgrim John Howland Society

• Warren Cousins

• The Denison Society

• The Thomas Minor Society

• The Wequetequock Burying Ground Association, Stonington, CTÂ

• The Walter Palmer Society

• The Avery Memorial Association

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Sons of Spanish American War Veterans

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Order of the First Families of Maine 1604-1652 (Honorary President General)

• The Order of the First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• The Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Founding 1st Vice President General)

• Order of First Families of North Carolina

• The Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey

• First Families of Augusta County, Virginia

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• Descendants of Point Lookout Organization

• Fort Delaware Society

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Deep River Friends Memorial Association, High Point, NC

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Presidential Families of America

• Society of Descendants of the Founders of the New Haven Colony

• Winthrop Society

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Honorary President General)

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Hereditary Order Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

Authorships

• A Competitive Assessment of the U.S. Fiber Optics Industry

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem

Leslie descends from a southern belle mother with German and Scots Irish ancestry and a father whose paternal ancestry goes back directly to Holland for many generations on the male line. Her paternal grandmother gives her wonderful New England and early colonial roots primarily in CT and MA, her ancestors having arrived in America beginning with the Mayflower, through the Great Migration and into the mid-19th century - a virtual genealogical alphabet soup. Each of these categories contains multiple soldiers and individuals who served in many public service roles. And there are plenty of farmers too! She and her husband, Jonathan B. Richards II, are the parents of a total of six children between them and she is the grandmother of one little boy in Maine, likely to be her only grandchild. She has two children, one an Information Technology professional and the other a physician. Mrs. Richards has joined her husband in his passion for antique automobiles, helping him and his cohorts with researching the history and whereabouts of famous and interesting Cord automobiles, as well as others. She is also currently writing a catalogue raisonne on late 19th and early 20th century Rhode Island artist Walter Sherwood whose works she and her husband collect. She continues her research and collecting of Dutch (Makkum) pottery produced by potter Gerrit Wykstra in partnership with her great great Uncle Theake van der Meulen in NY and later in Michigan until Wykstra's death in 1949. In between times Leslie continues to research her own and her husband's family history, finding her step-children and husband have more Mayflower passengers in their trees than she does, but always delighted when she discovers the cousinships they all share in New England.

Leslie Vander Meulen Richards was born in St. Louis but has no Missouri roots, her parents, Ralph Folkert Vander Meulen and Sally Jo Kilgore, having moved there shortly after World War II for her father’s career.

Richards is presently the administrative manager for a nationwide answering service/call center company in St. Louis. She is the owner/president of Alexis Antiques, Inc., an international mail-order specialist in Wedgwood English ceramics, which includes a subsidiary marketing ceramic college wares. Former National Account Manager and Regional Business Manager for a nationwide computer service corporation, and Branch administration manager and sales account manager in its earlier parent company providing hardware/ software/ maintenance sales. Before marriage and children, she worked in hospital administration, developing and implementing admission and scheduling computerization procedures and supervisory positions in the admissions department.

Society Memberships

• National Gavel Society (Life Member)

• Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Missouri (Past State Governor; Past Deputy Governor General; past State Historian & State Secretary)

• National Society of New England Women (Three Flags Colony Founding Registrar, Past Colony President, current Registrar).  National Committee Chairman; past National Chairman 100th Anniversary Celebration; past Director General, Chaplain General, Organizing Secretary General, 3rd and 1st Vice President General, President General 2005-2008 & Honorary President General for life; National Chairman 125th anniversary (2020) committee).

• Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Missouri Chapter Number One; Past Recording Secretary and Registrar; current President; Past Organizing Secretary General; past 2nd VPG & National Chairman; President General 2015-2018; Honorary President General for Life, National Chairman 2021-2024; 2024-2027.

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, John Sappington Chapter (Past Chapter chairman, director, officer and Regent; past State Chairman; past National Vice-Chairman; National Vice-Chairman, Magazine, 2022-2025)

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (Past Sr. State officer; Honorary Senior State President; past Senior National Vice President, Great Plains Region, Mrs. Niebell’s administration 1990-92)

• Warren Cousins (Life Member; Founding National Secretary)

• The National Society, Magna Charta Dames and Barons (Life Member; MO Division, past Division Officer; Regent 2013-2017, 2021-2025; Past National Herald; National Vice-President)

• Daughters of the American Colonists (Past Chapter officer, chairman and Regent; Past State Chairman, Past National Sectional Vice-Chairman)

• National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865 (Organizing Treasurer, DeWitt Clinton Jones Chapter; Past Chapter Regent; National Society Past Director General, Membership)

• Daughters of Colonial Wars (National Parliamentarian, 2019-2022, Past National Chairman; Past Missouri State Officer and Past State President, current State Vice-President)

• United Daughters of the Confederacy (Past Chapter Registrar, Finance & Bylaws Committee; Past Division Chairman; Past Chapter Parliamentarian)

• St. Louis Confederate Monument Association (Secretary)

• National Society Dames of the Court of Honor (Missouri Society, Trustee, Past Vice President; Past National Chairman)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (St. Louis Pioneer Chapter, past  officer; Past State Chairman, Registrar, Historian & Vice President)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (National Chairman, Scholarships; Past State Historian; State Chaplain 2024-2026; Honorary Missouri State Governor)

• Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent (Life Member)

• Most Noble Order of the Garter (Life Member)

• Dutch Colonial Society (Life Member, former Patroon, National Secretary and National Vice-President; President 2022-2024)

• Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865 Department of Minnesota 

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Litchfield, MN, Frank Daggett Circle #105

• The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the State of Missouri (Past State Chairman Historic Properties; past State Registrar)

• Daughters of the British Empire, Lord Mountbatten Chapter (Past chapter Recording Secretary & Vice-Regent; Past National Bylaws committee)

• Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (MO Court reorganizing President, Parliamentarian National 2019-2022, National Chairman 2022-2025, Editor The Broadside 2019-2028; Organizing Secretary General 2022-2025)

• National Society Southern Dames of America, North TX Society

• National Society Descendants of American Farmers (Charter Member)

• The IX (Life Member)

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War (Parliamentarian General 2023-2025)

• Flagon and Trencher

• Descendants of Early American Governors (Charter Life member)

• Hereditary Order of the Families of The Presidents and First Ladies of America (Life Member)

• Founders Fellowship

• Scions of Freedom Signers (Charter Life member)

•  Reorganizing Plantagenet Society (2024)

Genealogy & Historical Associations

• Ancient Burying Ground Association, Inc. Hartford, CT

• Bolduc House Museum Friends, Ste. Genevieve, MO

• Brecksville (OH) Historical Assn., Inc.

• Committee for the Commemoration of the Battle of Ft. San Carlos (MO) (Vice President)

• Dunkirk (NY) Historical Society and Museum (Life Member)

• French Colonial America, Ste. Genevieve, MO (former Board Member & Secretary)

• Genealogical Society of Whitley Co., IN 

• National Genealogical Society

• Harrisonburg - Rockingham County (VA) Historical Society

• Historical Society of Medway, Massachusetts

• Historical Society of Medfield, Massachusetts

• Historical Society of Whitley County, IN

• Kirkwood (MO) Historical Society

• New England Historic and Genealogical Society

• National Museum of Transportation, Kirkwood, MO

• Massachusetts Society of Genealogists

• Plymouth County Genealogists, Inc. (MA)

• Sappington Concord Historical Society (MO)

• Sappington Family of America 

• Sappington House Foundation, Crestwood, MO (Former Board Member)

• St. Louis Genealogical Society 

• Shenandoah Valley (VA) Historical Society

• Whately (MA) Historical Society

• Williamsburg (MA) Historical Society

Authorships 

Wedgwood Eye Baths and the Collection of Ray Stenseth, R.Ph., Ph.D. St. Louis, MO; Wedgwood:  Collectors, Collecting & Collections, Proceedings of the Wedgwood International Seminars, #46, 47 & 48.

Wedgwood – Coming to America and the Voyage of the Mayflower; Wedgwood and America, Proceedings of the Wedgwood International Seminar #50, Philadelphia.

Dunkirk Delft: A Dutch Potter Comes to America, American Ceramic Circle Journal, Volume XVIII – publication resulting from receipt of a research grant from the ACC.

Listed In

• Two Thousand Notable American Women, Sixth Edition

• Sterling Who’s Who, Executive Edition, 1994-1995

• World Who’s Who of Women, 1994-1995

• Continental Who’s Who of Business 2009-2010

• NSDU Centennial Ancestor Book Vol 1 & 2

• Hereditary Society Blue Book, 1992, 1994-2000

Professional Memberships

• Wedgwood Society of Boston

• Wedgwood International Seminar

• Wedgwood Society of NY

• Wedgwood Society of Southern California

• Wedgwood Society of New South Wales

• Wedgwood Society of Australia, Inc.

• Wedgwood Society of Queensland

• Wedgwood Society of Washington, DC

• Wedgwood Society of London

Other  

• Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels

• Kurn Hattin Homes, Westminster, VT Board of Incorporators

• Past Trustee, Hampton Park Subdivision, Richmond Heights, MO, (National Register of Historic Places, Placement Committee member)

• St. Louis Symphony Volunteer Association (former Board member and chairman, Symphony Showhouse, major fund-raiser)

• Kirkwood (MO) High School Alumni Association (Founding member & Past President) (50,000+ members)

• Kirkwood (MO) School District Foundation (Past Board Member)

• Member - Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Club

David John Stringfellow, an Iowa native, is the son of Rodger Dean and Jennie Helen Brown Stringfellow.  He is married to Nancy Ivie Stringfellow, and they have two children: Ann and John.  David was graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Agricultural Business; from Harvard Business School with an M.B.A.; and from the University of Iowa College of Law with a Juris Doctor with distinction.  David is Certified Public Accountant, and is retired from a career with the Edison Electric Institute.

Society Memberships

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (Governor General)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (National Presiding Clerk)

• National Order of the Blue and Gray (Commanding General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (President General)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900

• Descendants of Fossors 1607-1860

• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

• Descendants of Mexican War Veterans

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor

• Dutch Colonial Society

• Elder William Brewster Society

• First Families of Kentucky

• Flagon and Trencher

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• General Society of the War of 1812

• General Society Sons of the Revolution

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of the Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• National Gavel Society

• National Huguenot Society

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• National Society Sons of the American Colonists

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

• Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Order of the First Families of Maine

• Order of the Indian Wars of the United States

• Plymouth Hereditary Society

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge

• Society of the Order of the Southern Cross

• Sons of Confederate Veterans

• Sons of Spanish American War Veterans

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Winthrop Society

Other Honorary Societies

Gamma Sigma Delta (agriculture), Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics)

Notes

David is a member of Gamma Sigma Delta and Omicron Delta Epsilon.  Besides his family and genealogy, David’s other great passion in life is his Iowa farm, which has been in his family since 1894.

David Martin Trebing, son of Harry Martin and Joyce Christie Trebing, is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. David was graduated with a B.A. in Business and Marketing from Michigan State University; and an MBA with an emphasis in Finance, from Wake Forest University. He is the long-time General Manager of External Affairs in the Americas, for the Daimler AG.

Memberships

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Governor General 2016-2019)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Elder William Brewster Society

• La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan

• St. Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Sons of the Revolution

• Sons of the American Revolution (President, Detroit Chapter)

• Society of the War of 1812

• The One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

Other Notes

• St. John's Church - Lafayette Square (Member)

• Church Club of New York (Member)

• Pilgrims of the United States (Member)

• Board of Trustees, Historical Society of Michigan (Member)

• New England Historical Genealogical Society (Councilor)

• National Committee on US-China Relations (Member)

• The Athenaeum of Philadelphia (Shareholder)

Previously served as:

• Detroit Historical Society (Trustee)

• Board of Directors, Michigan State University Development Fund (Member)

• Board of Directors, Cultural Development Corporation of Washington Chivalric Orders (Member)

• Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Commander)