Presenter Profile: Lynda Childers Suffridge

Lynda Childers Suffridge, BSE, MSE, a graduate of the University of Arkansas, completed six hours post-graduate work at the University of Central Arkansas, attended Draughon School of Business, and completed the Dale Carnegie Course in Public Speaking. She is a native and resident of Arkansas, is vice president of the National Genealogical Society Board of Directors, a Life Member of NGS, and serves as chair of the NGS Awards Committee. She currently serves as secretary of the Arkansas Genealogical Society. A twelve year employee, now retired, of the Arkansas History Commission, she is past-president of the Arkansas Genealogical Society, Heritage Seekers, and Arkansas Pioneers. She is author of NGS Research in the States Series: Arkansas; co-editor of the Perry County [Arkansas] Historical & Genealogical Society Newsletter, and co-editor of Perry County, Arkansas: Its Land & People. She was the 2007 winner of the “Arkansas Genealogical Society Family History Writing Contest Bobbie Jones McLane Award” and was presented the 2008 “Arkansas Historical Association Walter L. Brown Award for Best Family History in a Local Journal” for her article “Descendants of Reuben Searcy and Isabella McDonald.” Ms. Suffridge lectures in Course III at the Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, at NGS and FGS Conferences, and to state and local organizations.

She will be presenting lectures on using the United States Census to trace your ancestors in the Beginner Workshops being held on Tuesday and on Saturday mornings.