Elizabeth Shown Mills

ELIZABETH SHOWN MILLS is an American genealogist, historian, and author who has edited the National Genealogical Society Quarterly for sixteen years and published over 1,000 articles across genealogy, history, literature, and sociology. Her books include Isle of Canes, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace and Professional Genealogy.

Mills served as president of both the American Society of Genealogists and the Board for Certification of Genealogists. Evidence Explained was named Library Journal’s Best Reference Work of 2007.

When not writing, Mills has appeared on BBC, CNN, and PBS, and Isle of Canes draws on more than thirty years of research into a multiracial Louisiana Creole family.

Elizabeth Shown Mills’s books are published by Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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