About the Speaker:  Nancy began researching her family history in 1981. She is descended from Russian Jews and Armenians from Turkey who all arrived in America between 1887 and 1913 and settled in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City. She has B. A. in English (California State University, Fullerton), M. S. in Library Science (University of Southern California), and M. A. in History (University of North Texas).  She is currently writing her UNT doctoral dissertation on how Continental Army soldiers’ encounters with regional foods affected their sense of provincialism or localism. Nancy has been the genealogy librarian at Grapevine Public Library since July 2001 where she manages the collection, presents genealogy programs, facilitates and gives programs to the local Name Droppers genealogy interest group as well as community groups, and writes a monthly genealogy and local history. She has compiled two books that have been published by Heritage Books; Washington County, Arkansas Sheriff’s Census for 1865 in 1994 and Washington County, Arkansas Miscellaneous Book, 1841-1879 in 1997, as well as a few articles in genealogical society publications.