Texas State Genealogical Society

At the annual conference last year at Abilene, Texas, Texas State Genealogical Society honored three people for their contribution to the fields of genealogy or history by making them Fellows of the society.

1. Lloyd D. Bockstruck - he is one of the most prominent and well-known author, columnist, lecturer and most importantly, librarian in the state of Texas. He has supervised the building of the Dallas Library’s genealogy section into one of the top ten genealogy libraries in the United States if not the world. Lloyd is especially generous with his time and expertise at the library and as a lecturer to many local societies especially genealogy societies but also lineage and others.
2. Archie P. McDonald – he recently left the directorship of the East Texas Historical Association as of September 1st; a position he had held since 1971. He has authored many books and edited many more. He and Bob Bowman have a weekly column called “All Things Historical” that runs weekly in many East Texas papers. He is a professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University and a past president of the Texas State Historical Association.
3. Betty Dunquez – currently the TSGS web master, a past president of TSGS, and co-chair of the FGS conference in Austin in 2004. She has been an active Board member since the early 1990’s serving in several officer positions as well as committee chairmanships. Her most recent and significant contribution to TSGS has been the project of getting the index to the First Families certificates online. She completely revised and edited the original index TSGS published.

Fellows already conferred include the following:
Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Mrs. Murray Ezzell, Gifford E. White, Dr. Chester V. Kielman, Miss Marion Day Mullins, Dr. Malcolm D. McLean, Mrs. Kelley E. McAdams, Dr. Dorman H. Winfrey, Mrs. Edna Perry Deckler, Dr. Ronald Ely Marcello, John I. Coddington, Winston DeVille, Christopher LaPlante, Milton Rubican, R.T. Williams, C. George Younkin, Dr. David B. Gracy II, James Patrick McGuire, Paul R. Scott, Jack Maguire, Mrs. Buford C. Curtis, Mrs. Denzil Austin Mattoon, Truett Latimer, Dr. James M. Day, Mrs. Dorothy D. Wilkinson, William Hunter McLean, Rev. Dr. Albert C. Walling, Mrs. Ralph A. Bickler, Mrs. Joe E. Ericson, Mrs. Raymond Ulmer, Bill R. Linder, Mrs. J.B. Golden, Mrs. Walter Speakman, Mrs. J.M. Wood, Richard S. Lackey, Michael J. Dabrishus, Ruth Murphy Harlow, Mary Smith Fay, Dorothy Dillard Hughes, H. Martin Soward III, Marynell Bryant, Frances Pryor, Jean Halden Walker, Wanda Lambert Donaldson, Richard L. Hooverson, Doris Cozart.