Ardell Green
Ardell started indexing in October 2006. She has served as the Surrey BC Stake Extraction Director since 2006 and enjoys working with indexers in the Surrey area. In 2008 she began serving as FamilySearch Support Missionary and also has been able to help others from all over the world with their indexing questions. This is based out of Salt Lake City and she is able to help patrons from her home computer and through a connecting phone system. She also has the privilege of being a Missionary Leader and works specifically with 10 missionaries to help them serve patrons from all over the world as well from their homes. She loves the opportunity to help this great work move forward.
Catherine Youngren is principal of Catherine Youngren Interior Designers Inc., a Vancouver based commercial interior design specializing in restaurant and store interiors. Her firm has completed projects across Canada, in the US, Spain, Singapore and Beijing, China. Catherine is a Fellow and Past President of the Interior Designers’ Institute of British Columbia (IDI). She is a Past President of the National Council for Interior Design Qualification based in Washington, D.C. She currently serves as the IDI representative to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia Task Force on Legislative Renewal.
By night, Catherine is a passionate genealogist. She is President of the Jewish Genealogical Institute of British Columbia. She is a Past President of the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia and currently sits on the Board of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia.
Chris Longley has been actively pursuing her own and her husband’s family history for almost eight years, but her interest in the subject started decades before. Her research takes her mainly through English and Scottish records, with some Ontario research (which includes some new cousins) thrown in for good measure. Chris coordinates the Genealogy Group in Port Coquitlam and is currently the President of the Abbotsford Genealogical Society.
Donald W. Davis Don spent a career in teaching, in clinical practice and in public health anticipating the day when he could devote himself more fully to local and family history. He now spends part of each year in the UK gathering evidence in archives and in ancestral villages. He enjoys sharing the results of his sleuthing with others in pursuit of family history. He serves as online parish clerk for two North Devon parishes and is currently studying English Local History at Oxford through their innovative distance learning program.
M. Diane Rogers is the President and Editor of the British Columbia Genealogical Society and Secretary of the Women’s History Network of BC. She blogs about genealogy and history at CanadaGenealogy, or, Jane’s Your Aunt: www.canadagenealogy.blogspot.com
Elaine Jolicoeur is a Family History Consultant and has been volunteering at the Surrey FHC for the past 7 years. She has been interested in Genealogy since 1998 when she joined the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints. She attended the 2001 Brigham Young University Annual Genealogy and Family History Conference and traveled to Quebec in 2004 to uncover her roots. Concentrating mainly in Quebec her favourite web sites are: FamilySearch.org, YourFolks.com, My Heritage.com and Ancestry.ca.
Jean Hawkes Evans has been doing Family History research since the 1980s. Born and raised in England, primary research has been in the British Isles. Has been working with Family Search Internet and new.familysearch.org since the Church of Jesus Christ introduced them. Is currently serving with Family Search helping Patron work with these programs.
Joyce Nagy My interest in family history began many years ago which led me to various Family HIstory Centres. This led to opportunities to become more involved, first as a worker in a FHC then helping to run the various centres in several different capacities. Along the way there have been opportunities to learn and assist others with their research. As assistant director of the Abbotsford FHC, there continues to be opportunities for continued growth, learning and teaching both staff and patrons.
Lyn McGonigal was born in Vancouver, married and has two children and two grandchildren. She became interested in family History when she joined the church about 30 years ago. She was one of the FHC workers that helped set up the Surrey FHC before it opened in April of 1996. Soon after she became the Director for the FHC and held the position for 9 years. She continues to work in the center one day a week. Over the years she has taught many classes at the annual “Finding your Roots” seminar, staff meetings and other classes offered at the FHC. Her passion is truly family history and teaching others. Areas of research is Ontario, England, Scotland and Sweden. As a family history consultant she continues to keep current with computers and learn many of the genealogy programs.