President
Vacant
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Vice President
John Laurent
John Laurent is a Florida native and from a Florida pioneer family. He has received a degree in Economics in the School of Business from the University of Florida a Juris Doctor in law from the University of Florida. John practiced law from 1972- 2002. While practicing law, he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1990-1997 and the Florida Senate from 1997-2002. He was a Circuit Judge from 2002-2012 and I retired in 2012. John is a member of NGS, FSGS, FSG, and IPGS. He received a certificate in genealogy from Boston University in 2015.
Treasurer
Patricia W. Rand
Pat is a retired CPA from Newport News, Virginia who currently lived in Mount Dora, Florida. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering for Camp Boggy Creek by making bears, and also is a prolific knitting. Pat was President of The Villages Genealogical Society for a number of years, and has previously served both FGS and FSGS as Treasurer.
Secretary
Vacant
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Director-at-Large
Deborah Baker
Deborah Bond Baker is a 3rd-generation native Miamian. She has been researching her family history since 1980. She has served in several positions on the FSGS board over the course of a number of years, as well as in several other genealogical societies. She moved from Miami to Eustis, Florida in 2008 and continues her service there for the Tavares Roots & Branches group. She enjoys traveling and researching onsite where her ancestors once lived. She and her husband, John, of 37 years, have 2 adult children and recently added a new son-in-law to their tree.
Director-at-Large
Connie White
County Historical and Genealogical Library; Historian, Mackay Gardens and Lakeside Preserve, Lake Alfred; Curator, Lake Alfred Historical Society Museum; President, Lake Alfred Historical Society; Vice-President, Lake Alfred Friends of the Library. In those positions, she has: helped to attain a Polk County Historical Marker for the Fruitlands Institute (a Rosenwald school) in Lake Alfred; completed research and documentation recognizing the Mackay estate home in Lake Alfred as a Gustav Stickley design; and provided research to author Phillip Dodd in his work on the memoirs of Ann-Marie Wallenburg Bonsor, the granddaughter of Alexander Mackaytheir tree.