Myra Vanderpool Gormley

MYRA VANDERPOOL GORMLEY was a certified genealogist, journalist, and syndicated columnist who wrote her column "Shaking Your Family Tree" for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate for nineteen years. Her books include The Official Guide to RootsWeb.com, Prima’s Official Companion to Family Tree Maker and Cherokee Connections.

Gormley held certification from the Board for Certification of Genealogists from 1987 to 2012 and served as editor of the RootsWeb Review from its inception in 1998 until her retirement in early 2007. She was a founding president of the Council of Genealogy Columnists, later the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors.

Gormley was a frequent lecturer at genealogy conferences and died on June 26, 2020, having resided in University Place, Washington.

Myra Vanderpool Gormley’s books are published by Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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