2006 Speakers

 

Mic Barnette is the owner of Barnette's Family Tree Book Company a web based genealogy bookstore. He has conducted genealogical research in all Southern states and specialized in Texas, Louisiana, Gulf Coast and Georgia research on a professional basis while living in New Orleans, Louisiana and Atlanta, Georgia, respectfully.

For ten years, 1994-2004 Mic wrote a popular weekly genealogical column that was published in the Houston Chronicle in Houston, Texas. Currently he is the administrator of the Barnett Surname DNA Project. Mic has written numerous articles in national, state and privately published genealogical and local history periodicals. He has conducted genealogical classes at DeKalb College and Kennesaw College in Atlanta, Georgia and at Houston Community College, and Leisure Learning in Houston, Texas. He has spoken to many groups all over the South and has delivered papers at three National Genealogical Society Conferences in the States, those of Portland, Oregon, Houston, Texas and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mic is a member of the National Genealogical Society, the Sons of the Republic of Texas, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of the Confederacy. He is the immediate past president of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (formerly known as the Council of Genealogy Columnists). He is, also, an Admiral in the Texas Navy.
Betsy Mills, CC for Lamar County, TX, is also the State Coordinator for Arkansas and is CC for two counties there. Betsy has served on many genealogical society boards and at the national level for the USGenWeb Project. Betsy is also a well known genealogical speaker.  Professionally, she specializes in Lamar County research.

Betsy is a member of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Dames of the Magna Carta and United Daughters of the Confederacy.  Keeping history alive, she re-enacts as a reporter/photographer at Civil War re-enactments as part of the Ninth Texas Artillery. 

Betsy does have a life outside of genealogy.  She is the Director of Finance and Grants Management for Family Haven Crisis and Resource Center, Inc.  In the summer, she plays clarinet in the Paris Municipal Band.  She is a grandmother of three little girls.

Dreanna Belden is the Coordinator for Grants and Development at UNT Libraries.

Lela Golightley Evans has been doing genealogical research since she was in high school. She has been the county coordinator (CC) for several counties in the USGenWeb Project since 1998 and is currently the CC for Parker and Palo Pinto County in the TXGenWeb Project, and co-coordinator for Tallahatchie Co., MSGenWeb. Lela is a member of numerous genealogy societies and is currently the Vice President for the Lancaster Genealogical Society. She believes in lifelong learning and enjoys teaching others to do the things that she has learned to do. As the genealogy/reference librarian in Lancaster , she has the opportunity to help others learn every day.
Kimm Antell is a professional web programmer at an internet marketing firm in Georgetown, TX.  She has been working with websites since 1994 and on the internet since 1989.  Her love for genealogy started at a young age when she fell in love with the tale of the Alamo and old books.  She has found a way to combine these loves by collecting books on Texas History.