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Rev Dr. Cynthia Vold Forde
The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde and her husband, Ronald S. Beatty are recognized as Fellows of the Swedish Colonial Society where they serve as co-genealogists. Cynthia Forde created the DNA Project for...view moreThe Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde and her husband, Ronald S. Beatty are recognized as Fellows of the Swedish Colonial Society where they serve as co-genealogists. Cynthia Forde created the DNA Project for the Swedish Colonial Society; she is the author of Spirit in the South, Stories of our Grandmothers Spirit, and the administer of five additional FamilyTreeDNA groups. She used DNA to research three hundred and fifty years of the James Leas of Caswell County, North Carolina, soon to be published. Cynthia became interested in genealogy and pursued her ancestry with vigor but was stymied by one great-grandfather, Harry Bernard King, who arrived in Worth County, Iowa in 1894, who was born on 17 Dec 1866 near Mt. Solon, Virginia, whose obituary asserts that his mother died when he was four and his father died when he was fourteen. For thirty years, Cynthia analyzed the Ancestry census records every imaginable way, hired professionals to hunt for Mr. King several times, trying to authenticate him in Virginia. She is an education junkie as an undergraduate at Dana College, Blair NE (fine arts) and The University of New York (Bachelor of Science), Houston Graduate Theological Seminary (Master of Theology), Lutheran Seminary Program of the South in conjunction with Wartburg Seminary (Master of Divinity), Graduate Theological Foundation at Notre Dame, Indiana (Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Direction and a Ph.D. in Ecumenism). She is a retired Lutheran pastor and spiritual director.view less
Books by Rev Dr. Cynthia Vold Forde
A Lost Sheep of Shenandoah: Charles Edwin Rinker of Virginia and Harry Bernard King of Iowa: Dna Reveals They Were the Same Man