William Pfingst Carrell II was born as the only child of the late William Pfingst Carrell & the former Ann Mayhew Eagles in Louisville, Kentucky, where he is a life-long resident. He is an Eagle Scout. Mr. Carrell obtained his B.A. in History from Davidson College, with some of the course-work having been completed at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson & Pembroke Colleges), and his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law.  Mr. Carrell was listed in Who’s Who: American Law Students and has been practicing law in Louisville for over three decades, with a concentration in civil litigation.

Mr. Carrell is a life-long Episcopalian/Anglican and has served on the Vestry of his parish St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church.  Mr. Carrell’s historical and genealogical interests have led him to publish a book on his ancestor Joseph Bridger, two compiled genealogies published respectively in The Virginia Genealogist and The American Genealogist, and notable contributions to the fourth edition of Adventurers of Purse and Person.

Society Memberships

• Order of First Families of Virginia (past Burgess)

• Jamestowne Society (past Governor of Kentucky Company)

• Society of Mayflower Descendants (past Deputy Governor General & Governor of Kentucky Society)

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Order of First Families of North Carolina

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire (Charter Member)

• First Families of Georgia

• Order of the First Families of Maine (Charter Member)

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

• Society of Colonial Wars (past Deputy Governor General & Governor of Kentucky Society)

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Knight of Albion; Gentleman of the Council)

• Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Knight; First Vice President-General)

• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America (Member of the Council)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Member of the Council)

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Sons & Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench & Bar

• Society of the Cincinnati (Board Member, Delegate & President of New York Society)

• Sons of the American Revolution (past Chancellor of Kentucky Society)

• Society of the Descendants of the Garter

• National Society of Americans of Royal Descent (Second Vice President General)

• The Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States

• Alden Kindred Association

• Bridger Family Association (Co-Founder & Vice President)

• Ligon Family & Kinsmen Association (Member Board of Directors)

• The National Gavel Society

Other

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

• Pendennis Club (past Secretary)

• Social Register Association

Patricia ‘Pat” Gallagher was born in Bogart, Georgia. Her mother Lois Nunnally Gallagher was also born in Bogart and her father Martin R. Gallagher was born in Boston, Massachusetts. They met at a USO dance in Charleston, SC during WWII ~ one dance and the rest was history.

Pat attended school in Georgia until the 10th grade then moved to Jacksonville FL where she finished high school. She attended college in Jacksonville where she studied speech, drama, history and world geography.

Pat enjoyed a lifelong career of over 50 years, as a lead flight attendant for Delta Air Lines. She was originally based in New Orleans and then Atlanta. She had the opportunity to travel the world and see many wonderful places but still contends that there's no place like home. Being a world traveler gave her the opportunity to appreciate her own American heritage. Her genealogy interest started at age 12, when she interviewed her uncle, who had been at Pearl Harbor.

Memberships

• National Huguenot Society

• Colonial Dames of America

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (State Chaplain)

• Jamestowne Society

• Winthrop Society

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (4th VP national)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

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

• National Society of New England Women

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

• Presidential Families of America

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (National Elder; State Governor)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Postmaster General)

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants

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

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers

• Order of the Steel Magnolias (co-founder, President General)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (Vice President National)

• Descendants of Brian Boru

• Descendants of Fossors

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Vice President)

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

• Order of the Norman Conquest

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• United Daughters of the Confederacy (Chaplain General)

• Society of the Order of the Southern Cross

• Associated Daughters of Early American Witches

• The National Gavel Society

• Order of William the Marshall

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War

• Commonwealth Assembly

• Descendants of Soldiers at Valley Forge with George Washington

• Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents 

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Founders Fellowship

Other

• Bogart Historical Society 
• Jefferson Parish Historical Society
• Member of the Landmark Society of Louisiana
• Member of P.E.O
• Fine Arts Club of New Orleans
• Women's Opera Guild of New Orleans
• Saint Bernard Parish Historical Society
• Clipped Wings of Louisiana
• Event planner Spectacular Sports
• Tour Guide City of New Orleans

Interests

Pat has several hobbies that include reading, gardening, genealogy research and travel. She has a constant desire to “see what’s on the other side of the mountain.” She is an avid train buff, having ridden trains across the world. She collects antique glass, depression glass, stamps and miniature globes.

Susan Young Gray was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Norman Belmont Young and Elizabeth Arlene Bolton. She was married first to the late Glasco Smith and now to Larry Zieglar Gray, Sr. She has one son, Matthew Thaddeus Smith. Matthew graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA, with a double major in Mathematics and Education. He graduated from Stanford University with an MA in Education.

Mrs. Gray received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. She retired from the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission after a 35-year career.  She started as an intern after college and retired as a Senior Program Analyst. She worked in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations, Office of the Controller, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.  The last ten years of her responsibilities included the formulation and execution of a $45M budget for the agency’s computer, network and telecommunications infrastructure in the Information and Computer Operations Division, Office of the Chief Information Officer. Sue received the NRC’s Meritorious Service Award for Equal Employment Opportunity Excellence, recognizing outstanding efforts in serving as a collateral-duty EEO Counselor for 22 years, working with individuals seeking redress through the agency’s complaint process, as well as with managers and supervisors at all levels.  

Memberships

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Reorganizing Treasurer General; Financial Reviewer)

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Treasurer General)

• Legion of Vikings and Valkyries (Founding Treasurer General)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Founding member; Treasurer General)

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Founding Inspector General)

• Order of Alba (Charter member, Historian)

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National Chairman Preservation and Restoration of Records; Former National Councillor; National Supplies Chairman; Maryland Chapter President; Treasurer; Recording Secretary)

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Financial Reviewer)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (Financial Reviewer)

• National Society of New England Women (Maryland Colony Reorganizing Treasurer; Former National Chairman Supplies; Yearbook Chairman; State Recording Secretary)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Former National Headquarters Supervisor; National Chairman Technology Systems Services; Vice Chairman Tickets; District of Columbia State Treasurer; State Historian)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Former National Finance Committee; Air Force Academy Chairman; Protocol Chairman; Maryland State Recording Secretary; Historian)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (Former Secretary General; Historian General; Councillor)

• Associated Daughters of Early American Witches (Former Treasurer General; Chaplain General; Auditor)

• Order of the First Families of Maine (Founding Secretary General; Former Financial Reviewer)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Founding Treasurer General; Former Corresponding Secretary General; Auditor; Councillor)

• Hereditary Society of Teachers (Founding Treasurer General; Former Financial Reviewer)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Charter member; Former Treasurer General; Financial Reviewer)

• National Society of Saints and Sinners (Charter member; Former Auditor)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Charter member; Former Auditor)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Former State Treasurer 2012-2015; National Vice Chairman Seating; National Vice Chairman Corridor Hostess; Eastern Division Vice Chairman Genealogical Records; National Vice Chairman Buildings and Grounds; National Vice Chairman Independence Day Parade; Chapter Regent)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Former State Treasurer)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Former District of Columbia State Chaplain; State Librarian)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Founding member)

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Founding member)

• Descendants of Brian Boru (Founding member)

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Charter member)

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Charter member)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Descendants of Fossors

• Dutch Colonial Society

• Flagon and Trencher

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (District of Columbia life member)

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

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

• National Huguenot Society

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

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

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• Order of the House of Wessex

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of the Norman Conquest

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

• Order of the Vietnam War

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXXI)

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

• Winthrop Society

• The IX (Co-Founder; Founding Treasurer General)

• The Order of El Cid (Charter member, Treasurer)

• Scions of Freedom Signers (Founding Treasurer)

• Order of the First Scottish War of Independence, 1296-1320 (Founding Treasurer)

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War (Founding Director)

• Founders of Places of Worship in America (Charter member; Financial Reviewer)

• Descendants of Early American Governors 1607-1861 (Founding Financial Reviewer)

• Order of Ancestors of Armorial Ancestry (Member Finance Committee)

• Crown and Sceptre

• Founders Fellowship 

• Non-Compos Mentis 

• Order of American Cousins of Present & Future Sovereigns of Great Britain

• Order of New England 

Other Memberships

• New England Historic Genealogical Society

• Maine Genealogical Society

• Essex (MA) Society of Genealogists

• Hancock (ME) Historical Society

• Montgomery County (MD) Genealogical Society

• Hancock County (ME) Genealogical Society

Interests 

Mrs. Gray is the recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Martha Washington Medal.

Sue’s favorite pastime is researching her ancestors.  She first became interested when in 1979, her paternal grandmother gave her a copy of an old handwritten document listing the children of her fourth great-grandfather Stephen Young, written in 1875.  As the first in her family to do any significant research, she has been successful in documenting her lineage to six gateway ancestors:  Joseph Bolles, Percival Lowell, Anne (Derehaugh) Stratton, John Stratton, Elizabeth (Stratton) Thorndike, Richard More, and has 12 Mayflower passengers. She also enjoys researching for others and working with DNA results.  She manages over 25 DNA kits for family and friends. Using mitochondrial DNA testing, she documented her matrilineal line to Catherine Lejeune, the Ancestral Matriarch of the Acadian Savoie family, born in France and marrying c 1651 in Acadia. This line also includes ancestors of Mi’kmaq descent.

Deborah Whitmore Hicks, Esq.

Memberships

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (President General 2024-2026)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (President General 2023-2025)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Corresponding Secretary General 2023-2025; Organizing Secretary General 2021-2023; Counselor General 2019-2021; Alabama Southeast Branch Organizing Branch Governor 2020-2023; Alabama Branch Governor 2017-2019 Honorary Life Governor)

• Presidential Families of America (Recording Secretary General 2022-2025)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (First Deputy Governor General 2024-2026; Librarian General 2021-2023; Alabama Governor 2020-2022)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Recording Secretary General 2023-2025; Chancellor General 2021-2023; Hugh Quinn Chapter Governor 2024-2026; 2018-2020)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Second Vice President General 2023-2025; Treasurer General 2019-2021)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Organizing Secretary General 2024-2027; Treasurer General 2019-2021; Alabama Chapter President 2018-2021)

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Chancellor General 2023-2025; Parliamentarian 2019-2023)

• National Order of the Blue and Gray (Historian General 2023-2025)

• Order of the Steel Magnolias (Counselor General 2018-2026; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Counsellor General 2019-2025)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Counselor General 2021-2025)

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Governor General 2021-2023; Incorporator; Founding Board)

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Chancellor General 2018-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Chancellor 2018-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Chancellor 2019-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Descendants of Brian Boru (Chancellor General 2018-2025; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• Order of the Descendants of EL CID (Chancellor General 2018-2024; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of the House of Wessex (Legal Advisor pro tempore’ 2021-2026)

• Order of Alba (Parliamentarian 2019-2025)

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXXVI New Orleans President 2024-2027)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Alabama Society State Regent 2024-2027)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Alabama Society State President 2023-2025)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (South East Alabama Society Organizing State President 2019-2025)

• Jamestowne Society (The Alabama Company, Deputy Governor 2022-2026; Treasurer 2016-2022)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Treasurer National 2021-2024)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (National Corresponding Secretary 2020-2022; The Magnolias Chapter Organizing President 2018-2020; Alabama Society President 2016-2018)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Counselor General 2018-2024)

• The National Order of the Korean War (Incorporator; Founder 2021)

• National Society Descendants of American Farmers (Advisory Council Life; Incorporator; Founder)

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Registrar; Treasurer; Past Chapter Regent)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor

• Military Order of the Southern Cross in the Pacific Theatre

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

• Flagon and Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• American Rosie The Riveter Association

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic

• National Gavel Society 

• Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers (Commander General 2023-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of Bacon’s Rebellion (Governor General 2024-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Society of First Families of Quebec (Chancellor General 2022-2025; Incorporator, Founder)

• Order of Founders of the Granville District (Chief Justice 2022-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents (Deputy Governor General 2024-2026; Founding Chief Justice General 2020-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• National Society Founders of Places of Worship in America (Founding Chancellor General 2022-2025; Incorporator)

• The Descendants of Colonial Regulators (1st Vice President 2019-2025; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• The Order of William The Marshal (Attornatio 2021-2025; Incorporator; Founder)

• Founders Fellowship 

• The Order of Cloak and Dagger 

• The IX

• The Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery (AL)

• Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Auxiliary (Life Member)

• Alabama Society Sons of the American Revolution Ladies Auxiliary

Awards

Recipient of the National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims Thomas W. Bicknell National Service Award

Recipient of the Royal Order of the Kings and Queens Award 

Recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Martha Washington Medal

Recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Medal of Appreciation

Recipient of the Military Order of Stars & Bars Judah P. Benjamin Merit Award

Recipient of the Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration Certificate of Appreciation, which she accepted on behalf of the entire Lewis Chapter, NSDAR, Eufaula, AL

Recipient of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Meritorious and Distinguished Service Award

Appointed and Commissioned as an Honorary Tennessean by Governor Bill Lee

Awarded the American Jurisprudence Labor Law Book Award

Other

Multiple genealogical and historical societies

Friends of the Library

Docent, Eufaula Pilgrimage Tour of Homes

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Retired Status, 27 years of service, including Flotilla Commander.

Philip Robert Livingston, Jr. is the only child of the late Philip Robert Livingston and Marguerite Emery. He married Sara Ann Weigel June 14, 1969, in Montclair, NJ, after meeting while in college in Fulton, MO. They have two children Emery Rile Livingston (Peter Matthew Flannery) and Philip Robert Livingston III (Kimberly Diane Shumate) and four grandchildren Stella Rile Flannery, Patrick O’Rourke Flannery, Philip Robert Livingston IV and Arthur Remy Livingston. 

Mr. Livingston attended Demarest Public grammar & junior high school in Demarest, NJ (1952-1961). He was active in sports and cherished all his friendships and experiences. He played Little League baseball between ages eight to 12 and made the All-Star team as a pitcher, shortstop and batted third in the batting order. At eight years old, his father introduced him to the sport of golf, which he played in high school, college and throughout his life. He graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, NJ in 1965 and throughout his four years played on the NVRHS varsity basketball and golf teams. His senior year, he was named Captain of the Demarest NVRHS golf team and they won their league, Bergen County and New Jersey state high school championships. 

He attended and graduated from Westminster College in Fulton, MO with a BA degree majoring in Sociology in 1969. He joined Delta Tau Delta National Fraternity in 1966. In 1978, he attended and graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University Business School in Teaneck, NJ with a MBA degree majoring in Business and Finance. 

Mr. Livingston worked for International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation in Montclair, NJ as a Systems Analyst. He worked in multiple sites throughout the New York City metropolitan area (Ramsey (NJ), Franklin Lakes (NJ), Sterling Forest (NY), Poughkeepsie (NY), Endicott (NY), Kingston (NY), Fishkill (NY) and their national HQs in Armonk (NY). After 45+ years he retired in August 2015. He and his wife moved to North Carolina in 2017 to be near their children and grandchildren. 

Memberships

• Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Former 1st & 2nd Vice President)
• Society of the Cincinnati (NY State Secretary Emeritus; Current Chairman of Claims and Admissions; 2000-2022 Longest Serving Secretary of the NY State Society)     
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• Colonial Order of the Acorn
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Knighted; Current Registrar General)  
• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Former Registrar General)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Assistant Genealogist)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta
• Holland Society of New York
• Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York
• Order of Indian Wars of the United States
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
• Aztec Club of 1847
• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America
• Order of Lafayette
• Dutch Settlers Society of Albany
• Netherlands Society of Philadelphia
• The Society of First Families of South Carolina 1670-1700
• General Society Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York
• General Society Sons of the Revolution Pennsylvania Society
• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution New Jersey (SAR)
• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
• National Huguenot Society
• Plantagenet Society
• Order of Washington
• Colonial Order of the Crown
• Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
• Order of Alba
• Huguenot Society of South Carolina
• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
• Royal Society of Saint George
• Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
• Military Order of the Crusades
• Presidential Families of America
• The Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis
• Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey
• Family Bruce Society of America
• The Clan Stewart Society of America
• National Society of Magna Charta Dames and Barons

Other

The Social Register

Life Member Delta Tau Delta National Fraternity (Delta Omicron Chapter)

Westminster College College (1966-1969) was named one of the top 10 chapters of this national Fraternity. DTD had 165 chapters during his four years. He was an officer in the 1968-1969 school year.

Catherine McCreary Strauch is the daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. Pierce Newberry McCreary (Elizabeth Marks Smith). She began her life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was raised in New York and retired back to Charlottesville. She has been married for over 50 years to Joel Edward Strauch, they have a daughter Jacqueline Elizabeth (husband, Theodore James) and grandson Connor James.

Catherine is a third-generation graduate from Texas Women’s University, received a Master’s Degree from Manhattanville College, and taught for thirty years at Saint David’s School in New York City.

Like her late grandmother, Katharine Pierce McCreary, she is a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Catherine serves on the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall and is on the Foundation Board.

Society Memberships

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Honorary Governor General)

• Order of the Crown in America (Former First Vice President General) 

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Keeper of the Signet) 

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Fourth Vice President General)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Assistant Registrar General)

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Curator General, member of Saint Louis) 

• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Secretary General) 

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal (Virginia Councilor) 

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Third Vice President General) 

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion 

• National Gavel Society 

• Jamestowne Society, Richmond, VA Company 

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants 

• Society of Daughters of Holland Dames 

 Other Notes

• Junior League of the City of New York (53 years). Co-Chaired the Thanksgiving Eve Ball (Debutante Ball) at the Plaza Hotel for two years.
• University of Virginia Women’s Club
• Bartow-Pell Conservancy
• Fifth generation descendant of Governor James Bennett McCreary, governor of Kentucky, 1875-1879, 1911-1915.

Gail Ann Thomas was born in Newburyport, MA to Walter I. and Barbara S. (Tripp) Thomas. Her mother began researching her father’s family in 1960.  Barbara first found that she was eligible to join the NSDAR through her maternal grandfather, Charles Jones. This was the beginning of Barbara’s and Gail’s lifelong pursuit of family genealogy. Gail continues to research her lines that go back to the First King of Norway, a Viking in 864 CE. She uses her vast research book collection to help others find their roots.  

Gail attended Newburyport High School and Northeast Community College. She started volunteering at a young age at the Peabody Museum (now the Peabody-Essex Museum) in Salem, MA where her grandfather worked.  This started her interest in museums.  She continued this interest as she moved across the country.  In Southern California, she volunteered at the Workman-Temple Homestead Museum, City of Industry, California. The “La Casa Nueva”, is a 1922 Spanish Colonial Revival Mansion. She was able to attend guest lectures in museum techniques which included curating, preservation, restoration from staff members at University of San Francisco.  She moved to Northern California to the Shadelands Ranch Museum in Walnut Creek, just south of Oakland. The Original Nut and Fruit farmhouse was completed in 1903. With many of the family items and furnishings left behind by the family, the house is continued to be shown as it was in 1919.  

Gail worked as an Accounting Clerk for the Internal Revenue Service in N. Andover, MA, an Import/Export International Shipper for the Olmstead Industries, Seabrook, NH, a Bank Teller for the Citizens Bank and the Granite State Credit Union. Later in life, she volunteered at a Senior Center teaching arts and crafts. Gail is an avid quilter. While the National Vice Chairman of the NSDAR Veterans Services Committee, she and several of her fellow NH DAR members knitted over 100 Afghans for the Veterans Home in Tilton.

Today, Gail spends her time serving in the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company as the Quartermaster.  The AHAC members travel all over the world and Gail is loving every moment. 

Memberships 

• Order of the First Families of Maine (President General)

• National Society of New England Women (Honorary President General; Past Treasurer General; Past Vice President General)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (Honorary Governor General; Treasurer General; Past Deputy Secretary General)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Past MA State President; State Treasurer)

• Jamestowne Society (New England Company Chaplain)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (MA State President; NH State Registrar)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (Deputy National; MA Court President)

• Member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (First Female Officer elected, Quartermaster, carries the Rank of Lieutenant)

• Dutch Colonial Society (Past Treasurer General)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Past National Treasurer)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Past Treasurer General)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (42-year member; National Vice Chairman of the DAR Service for Veterans Committee; VAVS National Deputy Representative; Honorary Chapter Regent; NH State Historian (two terms); Corresponding Secretary)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (NH State Treasurer; Past Chapter President; Past National Chairman) 

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (NH Past State President)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Historian General; Charter Member)

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Past Historian General)

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• The Green Mountain Boys of Vermont

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Royal Scribe)

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

• National Society Descendants of American Farmers (Charter Member)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants New Hampshire (NH Past Deputy Governor; 20-year Life member)

• Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (40-year member, Life Member)

• Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Old Newbury Massachusetts (Past Board Member, Life member)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Past NH State Treasurer)

• The Crown of Charlemagne

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Descendants of the Templar Knights

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War

• Order of the House of Wessex

• Descendants of Brian Boru

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia

• Saints & Sinners (Charter Member)

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

• National Society Founders of Places of Worship in America

• Associated Daughters of Early American Witches

• Legion of Vikings and Valkyries

• Order of the Descendants of El Cid

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

Other Memberships

• The Wing Family of America

• Francis Wyman Association

• Daughters of the British Empire, CT Chapter 

• Bunker Hill Association, Boston, MA

• New England Historic and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 

• Military Order of World Wars, NH Patriot Member

Interests

In what spare time Gail has, she enjoys gardening, sewing and making Quilts.  She also produces historical programs and shares them with other lineage societies.