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Biographies of the Board of Directors Members
Selma Kampe Blackmon
Selma has been a family history researcher for 30+ years. As a nontraditional student, Selma attended Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia. She holds a BS in Integrative Study with a major in psychology and a minor in history/genealogy. She received her BS in 2009 and was graduated Magna Cum Laude.
In 2008, Selma completed an internship with the CSU Archivist, which concluded with the founding of Our Genealogy Group (OGG). Now in 2020, she is active on the OGG steering committee, provides community genealogy education, Dunham board member and vice president and writer of a blog, genealogicalhistoryresearch.blogspot.com.
Selma's Dunham connection? My connection started in the 1990s while attempting to identify two photos. The back of one identified "Aunt Sarah Dunham." The photo collection is circa 1900 and belonged to Nettie Ethel Couch, my maternal grandmother. With family information, I started the search in Rome, Oneida County, New York. Overwhelming response of photos and suggestions came from the friendly Dunham's of Oneida County. The photo has been identified as Sarah Dunham Hickok, sister to my gr gr grandmother Jane Angeline Dunham (1823-1906). The other photo is labeled "Grandpa and Grandma Donaham." This may be the only photo of Jane's parents, William F and Sarah Metcalf Dunham. DNA provided a strong match to several of the William and Sarah family. Finally, last year a DNA cousin found a newspaper article from Wisconsin providing information on a family reunion after 43 years, this article names all of the siblings. See my blog article, Jane Angeline Dunham 1823-1906, parents William F Dunham & Sarah Metcalf, 21 June 2009.
With the support received from past researchers, I would like to encourage new members to endure!!! My public online trees are RootsDigger2020 on MyHeritage and RootsDigger (Under Construction) on Ancestry, Selma Kampe Blackmon aka RootsDigger
url for blog article: https://genealogicalhistoryresearch.blogspot.com/2019/06/jane-angeline-dunham-1823-1906-parents.html
John Dunham Duguid
My Grandfather, Lewis G. Dunham, a descendant of Deacon John Dunham, was born in Braintree, Vermont in 1871. He became employed as a trainman with The Central Vermont Railway. My Mother, Dorothy (Dunham) Duguid was born in White River Junction, VT in 1909. Around 1914 Lewis moved his wife Abbie and two daughters to Canada and began working for the Canadian National Railway as a brakeman and later as a conductor.
In 1929 Dorothy married Arthur A. Duguid, a Canadian of Scottish heritage in what is now Thunder Bay, Ontario on Lake Superior. Twins, Grace and Glenn were born there in 1930. I was born in 1938, and Charlotte in 1944. In 1948 the family moved to Toronto.
After high school and technical training I was employed as a radio operator for the Canadian Department of Transport. In the 1960s I relocated to England and worked as sea-going radio officer in the British Merchant Navy. In 1969 I returned to Canada and was employed in various technical jobs.
In 1982 I went back to school for training in computer programming and accounting. In 1993 I moved to Central Texas and held administrative positions with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and with the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2005 I retired to San Marcos, TX, and in 2017 I returned to Canada, living in Amherstburg, Ontario, near Detroit. For the past few years I have served as coordinator for our group's DNA Project. In 2019 our association cooperated with another genealogy association researching the origins of Scandinavian DNA groups. This research virtually assured that Deacon John Dunham's DNA can be traced back to Denmark around one thousand years ago.
Audrey (Shields) Hancock
Audrey (Shields) Hancock was born in Miami Co., OH, reared in IL & IN; married to David Hancock (60y); and moved to Michigan. Audrey is a college graduate, a retired elementary teacher, mother of four children, grandmother of eight, g-grandmother of four, and a family genealogist for 50 plus years.
She descends from Jonathan Dunham, aka Jonathan Singletary (b MA & res. Middlesex Co., NJ), s/o Richard Singletary, down to her paternal gg-grandmother, Mary Jane Dunham (b OH), wife of Gideon W. Creager of Darke Co., OH. Mary Jane's father, James Dunham, Jr. (s/o James, Sr. b NJ) died as a POW at Andersonville, GA. His brother, bro-in-law and cousins in Ohio were also Civil War victims. Much sleuthing was done through the years in order to discover her Dunham (alias Singletary) ancestor.
Audrey has helped James Streeter, website coordinator, with editing information included in the DGRA/DSFC Newsletter and the Dunham Dispatch Indexes. She has helped edit or create comments to help researchers find which Dunham ancestor is being discussed in the Newsletters articles.
James A. Streeter
I became interested in my family history when I was about 12. I had been given a list of 10 names from my G.mother Donham that took me back to John Alden and the Mayflower in 1620. I had a slow start, not being able to drive until I was in High School and then I was able to get to several libraries that had family history collections and the family tree grew. I was about 19 or 20 when I found information at the Los Angeles City Library that took 20 generations to 56 generations of European Royal Families.
The Family Tree continued to grow and when my parents retired in 1983 they took a number of road trips to New England doing research. By about 2010 we had about 10000 individuals and currently over 26000 and still have several years of data entry converting paper records to digital records. I expect that the tree will grow to over 40000 individual when the review is completed.
I have been the treasurer and member of DSFC-DGRA since 2012. I was a founder of a online genealogical society in the past and member of several other family history organizations. I have also been working on a number of projects adding additional info to the Dunhams in America section along with indexing the newsletters and re-designing various sections on the website to make them more user friendly.
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