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Michelle Bray Wilson member since: 09 Nov 2007
President (2010-present)
Policies and Procedures Committee Member (2012-present)
Program Committee Member (2011-present)
Secretary (2008-2009)
Contact: president@caggni.org
Michelle began her genealogical quest in 2007 when her Dad gave her an old family tree. She felt the need to authenticate it. Five years later, she’s still working the task, but nevertheless, she’s embraced genealogy with a passion. Michelle specializes in French-Canadians and Genetic Genealogy. She currently serves as CAGGNI’s President. When she’s not doing genealogy, Michelle is an engineering director at a biotech firm in the Chicagoland area.
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Nancy R. Thomas member since: 1 Aug 2007
Vice President (2013-present)
Contact: vicepresident@caggni.org
Nancy has been searching for her ancestors and her husband's for over 30 years. She published The Roeser Family: Ancestors and Descendants for a family reunion using Family Tree Maker software. Nancy has enjoyed travelling to her ancestral homes in Ireland, England, and Germany, as well as other parts of the world. She is especially interested in pre-fire Chicago history. Her case study on Irish research has been presented at several genealogical society meetings in the area, including CAGGNI.
A retired Professor/Reference Librarian at the College of DuPage, Nancy has been President of the DuPage County Genealogical Society from 2009-2013.
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Larry Olson member since: 31 Dec 1994
Secretary (2013-present)
Membership Chair (2003-2005)
Genealogy Mentor (2002)
Program/Publicity Chair (1999-2001)
President (1996-1998)
Contact: secretary@caggni.org
Larry Olson is a Minnesota native, who after living on both coasts, finally settled with his family in Chicagoland in 1985. He has been doing family research since the early '70s, when a grandmother told him he was related to John Philip Sousa via one of his German lines. He has never proved that legend, but he's discovered a lot of other things and had a great time doing it (Norwegians and Germans on his side, and Swedes and Rev. War veterans on his wife's). Larry's other detective "hobby" involves working for the IRS Crime Lab as a forensic document examiner. He hopes that one day someone in his immediate family will appreciate all the work he has done (while he was neglecting them for dead relatives and dusty old records...)
One of Larry's proudest accomplishments was presiding when "CAGGNI" was born. The group had been created several years before as the Northern Illinois Personal Ancestral File User's Group - NIPAFUG - meeting at the Schaumburg LDS Church. Because of an increasing diversity of genealogical interests within the membership, the group decided to expand its scope and change its name to the more melodious "CAGG-NI.".
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Ralph Beaudoin member since: 03 Dec 2005
Treasurer (2011-present)
Membership Chair (2006-2008)
Contact: bursar@caggni.org
Ralph has researched his family history for over 20 years. He is particularly interested in French-Canadian, French and New England genealogy. He is retired from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC where he served as Vice President and Treasurer. Ralph now serves as the Treasurer for CAGGNI and is a past Membership Chair. He is a member of the National Genealogical Society, New England Historic and Genealogical Society, Manchester (NH) Historic Association and the American-Canadian Genealogical Society.
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Everett Butler member since: 31 Mar 1998
Past President (2011-present)
Ancestral Quest and Personal Ancestral File
Special Interest Group (AQ/PAF SIG) Leader (2012)
President (2007-2010) Vice President (2006)
Contact: surnames@caggni.org
Everett has been interested in genealogy (off and on) for almost 50 years. He was among the first dozen or so that began holding monthly genealogy meetings in the LDS Church located at 1320 West Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg IL. Everett was among the about 7 members, that voted to officially adopt the group name of Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois. Everett has served CAGGNI as Program Chair and as President for a 3-year term. He currently serves as coordinator for the Ancestral Quest and PAF User's Group. Everett has worked professionally as a Training and Development Consultant to many of the fortune 500 corporations. He has also held many leadership positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His ancestors lived in England, Ireland, France, Denmark and South Africa. Everett frequently presents programs for Genealogy Societies in the Northern Illinois area.
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Elaine McIntyre Beaudoin member since: 02 Dec 2005
Archivist (2006-2008, 2012-present)
Policies and Procedures Committee Member (2012-present)
Road Trip Committee Chair (2012-present)
Contact: archivist@caggni.org
Elaine has been doing genealogy for more than 20 years. She is interested in Irish and Chicago genealogy and most recently in German Russian ancestry. Elaine is retired from DePaul University and holds a masters degree in Library Science and an MBA. She currently serves as CAGGNI's Archivist and Road Trip Chair as well as the Chair of the DePaul Emeritus Society. In addition, she is a member of the National Genealogical Society (NGS), New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Chicago Genealogy Society (CGS) and the Irish Genealogical Society International (IGSH). |
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Mary Hoyer member since: 20 Feb 2009
Fundraising/Group Purchasing Director (2012-present)
Contact: fundraising@caggni.org
Mary has been gathering family stories and artifacts since she was a little girl. She was fascinated by the stories of ancestors who came from Ireland, Scotland, and Prussia; others who traveled in covered wagons into Indian territory, and Choctaw heritage that has ancestral ties back to England, Holland, and France in the 1500s and 1600s. Mary was fortunate to inherit the genealogical research of an aunt and 2nd cousins from both sides of the family. In an effort to authenticate this information, she joined CAGGNI to sharpen her computer research skills and write the stories of her ancestors and produce a series of family history documentary films. Mary has been weaving tapestries for corporate and private collections for 40 years and developed a line of color therapy fabrics. She recently found out that she has many professional weavers in her family tree. She continues to apply her work and research in the field of energy medicine.
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Samuel "Skip" Bieber member since: 17 Apr 2011
Information Technologist (2012)
Contact: infotech@caggni.org
[Bio coming soon]
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Paul Cord member since: 31 Jan 1994
Meeting Room Coordinator (2007-present)
Contact: meetings@caggni.org
[Bio coming soon]
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Nancy C. Thommes member since: 15 Apr 2006
Membership Chair (2012-present)
Contact: membership@caggni.org
[Bio coming soon]
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Caron Primas Brennan member since: 13 Sep 2002
Newsletter Editor (2013-present)
Policies and Procedures Committee Member (2012-present)
Road Trip Committee Member (2012-present)
Vice President (2012) Website Manager (2009-2010)
Contact: newsletter@caggni.org
Caron loves history, biography, puzzles and a good mystery, which makes her perfectly suited to genealogy research! She has been researching her family history since a 6th grade school project got her interested. She has been using the computer and internet since before it was “cool”. She uses The Master Genealogist as her primary software and also uses Family Tree Maker and Ancestry to share with others in her family. Caron’s only vice is genealogy research so she has subscriptions to many resources including Ancestry.com, Genealogybank.com, NEGHS, Footnote, and Godfrey Memorial Library. She belongs to several local genealogy groups and is also a member of the Genealogical Speakers Guild and a Professional Member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. She blogs as Your Cousin Caron at http://yourcousincaron.blogspot.com/
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Sandra Trapp member since: 16 Jan 2010
Program Committee Chair (2013-present)
Contact: programs@caggni.org
Sandi has been researching her family, her husband’s, son-in-law’s and friends’ families for 15 years. She loves the challenge of finding the next “piece to the puzzle.” Her areas of research include English, German, Italian, Polish, and colonial New England and the migration states westward. She has been presenting genealogy programs to various local genealogical organizations for several years. She is the Program Chairman for CAGGNI for 2013 and also serves as a Director for the Genealogical Forum of Elmhurst. She has been the Resource Chairman for the Naperville Family History Center since 2000 and volunteers as a computer instructor at the Hinsdale Community Center and as a genealogy coach for the Indian Prairie Library’s genealogy classes as well as a computer tutor for the library’s patrons. She belongs to several genealogical organizations.
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Bill McGovern member since: 14 Feb 2003
Promotions & Publicity Director (2009-2010, 2012-present)
Audit Committee Member (2012-present)
Contact: promotions@caggni.org
Bill is CAGGNI's Promotions and Publicity Chair. He has been researching his roots through his membership in CAGGNI for 10 years. The ancestors are Irish and German, coming to USA in 1831 and 1858 respectively. While he has 300 persons on his family tree, he has hit the "brick wall" on both branches. A one-week genealogy trip to Ireland in 2008 was unsuccessful.
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Edwina Thomas member since: 18 Jun 2011
Social Chair (2013-present)
Contact: social@caggni.org
[Bio coming soon]
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Kathy Kult member since: 23 Apr 2010
Website Content Director (2012-present)
Policies and Procedures Committee Member (2012-present)
Program Committee Member (2012-present)
Contact: webmaster@caggni.org
surveys@caggni.org
Kathy has been researching family history since 2004. She is a graduate of the NGS American Genealogy: Home Study Course (2010) and has just recently completed the Advanced Methodology and Evidence Analysis course at the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research (IGHR) at Samford University. She loves to attend genealogy conferences and go “cemetery sleuthing.” She currently serves as CAGGNI's Website Content Director and Survey Manager and is also on the Policies and Procedures Committee as well as the Program Committee. In addition, she is a current member of the National Genealogical Society (NGS), Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois (GSSI), McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society (MCIGS), and the Phelps County (Mo.) Genealogical Society (PCGS).
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Bill Ditman member since: 16 Aug 2003
Ancestral Quest and Personal Ancestral File
Special Interest Group (AQ/PAF SIG) Leader (2013)
Contact: aqpaf@caggni.org
[Bio coming soon]
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Alan Wilson member since: 9 Nov 2007
Family Tree Maker Special Interest Group (FTM SIG) Leader
(2011-present)
Audit Committee Member (2012-present)
Information Technologist (2012)
Contact: ftm@caggni.org
Alan has been involved in genealogy for his family since 2008. His initial interest was in the structure and content of the Family Tree Maker program but this has expanded to The Master Genealogist, Microsoft database software in Access, and other useful tools for family historians. Alan is also interested in maintaining the technology needed for routine CAGGNI operations, and in technology services for the members. This includes an interest in application programs that might apply to genealogy. Alan continues as a full time employee of Harris Corporation. Alan holds a BSEE degree from MIT and an MSEE degree from IIT.
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Sandy Imyak member since: 30 Jun 2001
The Master Genealogist Special Interest Group (TMG SIG) Leader (2011-present)
Contact: tmg@caggni.org
[Bio coming soon]
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Marscha J. Chenoweth member since: 16 Jul 2010
Reunion for the Mac Special Interest Group (Reunion SIG) Leader
(2012-present)
Contact: reunion@caggni.org
Marscha began researching her family history in the mid-1970’s and worked intensely on it until the early 1980’s (and has the paper files to prove it!). Returning to genealogy in 2010 she joined the genealogy computer age, and was thrilled when she discovered CAGGNI. Recently she switched from a pc - Family Tree Maker to a Mac - Reunion 10. When not working on her genealogy she may be found chasing some bird in another country.
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