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To the memory of my favorite aunt, Mary Allen Morgan, who taught me my love of family, despite the hardships she endured. She changed and enriched my life beyond measure.
And to the memories of my Revolutionary War ancestors, John McKnitt Alexander and Major John Davidson of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and John Swords of Upstate South Carolina; and to the memory of my favorite ancestor, Green Berry Holder, born in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, on 23 December 1843 and died in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, on 18 June 1914. Each of these people, their spouses, children, descendants, and collateral families has brought history, geography, and genealogical research to life for me. Each and all of them changed my life, and this book will always be a product of the research for them.
About the Author
George G. Morgan is an internationally recognized genealogical expert, lecturer, and consultant. He is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc., a Florida-based company providing continuing education to librarians in the United States and genealogical presentations to societies in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. He also has led genealogy tours to the United Kingdom and has spoken on several genealogy cruises. He presents face-to-face at conferences and seminars and delivers live webinars via GoToMeeting and Skype.
He is the author of ten books, including the first and second editions of The Official Guide to Ancestry.com (Ancestry Publishing), and the first, second, and third editions of this book. He has written literally hundreds of magazine, journal, and online articles on the subject of genealogy. His articles have appeared in every major genealogical magazine in North America, including Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, Ancestry Magazine, the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, the Federation of Genealogy Societies FORUM, and others. His online articles available on the Internet number in the thousands. His published interviews have appeared on the Internet, in Readers Digest and Womans Day magazines, and in other media.
George is the co-host, with his partner Drew Smith, of The Genealogy Guys Podcast, the longest-running genealogy podcast in the world, published at http://genealogyguys.com. The two also have appeared in genealogical videos and in numerous online podcast interviews.
He is currently the vice president of Membership for the Federation of Genealogical Societies. He is the past president of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE), a former director of the Genealogical Speakers Guild, is past public relations/publicity director of the Florida State Genealogical Society, and past director of the Florida Genealogical Society (Tampa). He belongs to a number of other genealogical societies in the United States and the United Kingdom.
George has won a number of awards, including the Genealogy Outstanding Achievement Award and the Presidents Citation from the Florida State Genealogical Society, the Award of Merit and the Certificate of Merit from the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the Excellence in Writing Award from ISFHWE, and a certificate of appreciation from the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Florida, among others.
Morgans How to Do Everything: Genealogy is a best seller in the McGraw-Hill catalog and has consistently won critical acclaim from reviewers and readers alike as the best genealogy how-to book published in the past 25 years.
