John Hallberg Jones and Lorraine "Lane" Yatckoske Jones are lifetime residents of Minnesota, having attended high school together.  They have two sons and seven grandchildren

Mr. Jones attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.  After a thirty-seven-year career in the paper industry, Mr. Jones retired a Partner in Unisource Worldwide Inc. in 2000.


Memberships

• National Gavel Society (Honorary President)
• General Society of Colonial Wars (former Gentleman of the Council of the Wisconsin Society)
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)
• National Society of Sons of American Colonists (Founder; Honorary Governor General)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General; Minnesota Branch Founding Governor)
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (former Vice President General; 1985 Minuteman Award Recipient; former President of the Minnesota Society; former Secretary-Treasurer of the Minnesota Society, serving for nearly fifty years)
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Auditor General; former Treasurer General)
• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Honorary Commander)
• Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (former Treasurer General; former Councilor General)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (former Advisory Council Member; Founder Member)
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (former Archivist; Member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
• Order of the Crown in America
• National Guild of St. Margaret (former Second Vice President General)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (former Surety)
• Military Order of the Crusades (former Surety)
• Colonial Order of the Acorn
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former President of Minnesota Society)
• Military Society of the War of 1812, former member
• Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660
• Society of the Friends of St. George's & Descendants of the Knights of the Garter (Life Descendant Member)
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Wisconsin Society former Councilor General)
• Jamestowne Society
• Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York, former member
• Society of the Descendants of Colonial Clergy
• National Huguenot Society (Minnesota Society former President)
• General Society of the War of 1812 (former Vice President General for Minnesota of the General Society; former President of the Minnesota Society)
• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (former Treasurer General)
• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Member of Board of Assistants of the Minnesota Society)
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (former Chaplain General)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench & Bar 1565-1861
• Order of Lafayette
• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States
• Military Order of the World Wars (Founding Adjutant of Fort Snelling Chapter; former Commander, former Chaplain)
• Presidential Families of America (Regent for Minnesota)
• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
• Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Military Order of the Stars and Bars
• National Order of the Blue and Gray (former Treasurer General)
• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (First Chaplain General)
• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America (Charter Member; former Chaplain)
• First Families of Massachusetts
• Order of the First Families of Maine
• Descendants of the Knights of the Bath
• Order of the First World War
• Order of the Second World War
• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire (Founder member, Founding Chaplain General; former Director General)
• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Founding Chaplain General; former Deputy General)
• National Society of Saints and Sinners (Founding Member, Founding Chaplain)
• Registry of Famous and Infamous Relatives in American Families (9/9 Categories)
• Hereditary Society of Teachers (Founder Member)
• Son of a Witch
• Order of Descendants of Justiciars (Founding Member; former Councilor)
• Society of the Descendants of Lady Godiva (Founding Member)
• Order of the Norman Conquest (Founding Member)
• Order of Alba
• Pilgrim William White Society
• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims
• Order of Descendants of El Cid
• Order of the Descendants of Native Americans and Friends
• National Society Descendants of American Railroad Workers
• Order of the Kings and Queens of the Holy Land
• Legion of Vikings and Valkyries
• Founders Fellowship
• Descendants of the IX
• Descendants of the Templar Knights
• Descendants of Fossors
• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands
• Descendants of Early Postmasters
• Descendants of American Farmers
• Order of Cloak and Dagger
• The Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of Great Britain

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Officer Companion)
• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Grand Cross, Founder, Prior I, and currently Treasurer of the Priory of Our Lady of Sorrows of the West; former Grand Secretary of the Grand Priory of the USA)
• Knight of Grace of the Military and Hospitaller Orderof Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem
• Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni (Grand Officier; former member of the Council of Archons of the government of the Order; former Administrative Officer for the Exarchate of the USA)
  
  

Other Notes

Mr. Jones is also active in numerous fraternal orders.  He has been involved in various political and community activities over the years, including management of state Senatorial campaigns and PTA leadership.  He is a Kentucky Colonel; an Honorary Chief of the Minneapolis Fire Department; a LT COL Aide de Camp of the Alabama State Militia; and an Arkansas Traveler.  Mr. Jones is also an accomplished magician, an avid ornithologist, pianist, and traveler, having logged over one million airline miles. In 1996 he returned to travel exclusively by train, his lifelong favorite method of travel. Lane and John are strong adherents of the Seventh Day Adventist faith.