506 W. Larkspur Street
Victoria, TX 77904-2642

Phone: 361-575-5017

Fax: 361-485-2172

Email: mjones@vicad.com

Contact between 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Central

Certifications:

Bachelor Music Education, University of Texas, Austin Master Reading Education, University of Houston-Victoria, TX Ph.D. Education Curriculum and Instruction Texas A&M University, College Station, TX American Genealogy Home Study Course, National Genealogical Society Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research, Samford University Regional In-depth Genealogical Studies Alliance, Ft. Worth, TX

Awards:

International Society Family History Writes and Editors Columnist First Place Award TX State Genealogical Society Columnist First Place Award Daughters of the American Colonists Columnist Award Elected Secretary, National Genealogical Society 2010-2012

Speaking Conditions:

Travel and Lodging expenses required. Lecture fees negotiable.

Previous Engagements:

January 2010-Victoria College (TX) Continuing Education Beginning Genealogy (10 sessions) March 2010--Museum of the Coastal Bend (TX)--"Give Me Land, Lots of Land" April 2010--Texas Retired Teachers State Convention--"Climbing Your Family Tree" June--Director, 23 Texas Tracers to Family History Library, nine days genealogical research.

Specialties:

Beginning and Intermediate Genealogy Lectures and Workshops Texas Land Acquisitions, Measurements, and Use in Genealogical Research

Lectures:

"Give Me Land, Lots of Land" "Climbing Your Family Tree" "What Were They Singing?" "On the Move Again" "Gone to Texas"

Bio:

She is a native Texan from Victoria who received her undergraduate degree in Music Education from the University of Texas in Austin, Master's Degree in Education, University of Houston-Victoria, Ph.D. Education Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University in College Station. She is a Past President of the Texas State Genealogical Society, Past Regent, Guadalupe Victoria Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Previous Texas State DAR Chorus Director, District III President of the Texas Retired Teachers Association, and writer for The Victoria Advocate genealogy column, “Relatively Speaking,” for which she won the 2008 First Place Award for Columnists in the Texas State Genealogy Society Writing Awards Contest. Later this month she will be elected Secretary of the National Genealogy Society at their National Convention in Salt Lake City. She is the group leader for the Texas Tracers, a group of genealogists who travel to Salt Lake City each year for nine days of concentrated genealogy research. This year in June will be their eleventh trip. She has been married for 49 years to Kenneth Jones, her high school sweetheart, and they have two sons, Jason and David, who live near Austin and enjoy coming to Port O’Connor and fishing with their dad.