Dawn Conway is expert on Baldwin County genealogy

Dawn Conway will speak on Thursday evening:

She grew up in Baldwin County, as did her husband Pete. After becoming interested in family history many years ago, she discovered that many of their ancestors have been in the Baldwin County area since the late 1700’s, making them some of the first settlers in the area.

      Dawn and Pete left Baldwin County as newlyweds when he was serving in the Air Force. They lived in Zweibruecken, Germany for 3 years, then southern Maryland for a year, attended college in south Alabama, then back to southern Maryland. They lived and worked in the Washington, DC, area for over 13 years, but chose to move south to raise their daughters. They now live in north Alabama and work in the Huntsville area – where husband Pete is a program analyst for a defense contractor and Dawn is the lead software engineer for a NASA climate satellite project at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. They have been married for 31 years and have two amazing daughters – Kaitlin and Rebecca – Kaitlin is in college and Rebecca will soon follow. They also have a Shih-Tzu, Mollie, a Bassett Hound, Floyd, a mixed Bassett, Ginger, and three cats, Jake, Midnight, and Mitten.

     They visit Baldwin County often since all their immediate family is in the area. They love to travel. They have been to Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, many of our beautiful United States, and Pete has even been to the Marshall Islands. Besides travel and genealogy, her hobbies include jewelry making and scrap booking, and web page development.  They are also active members of Friendship United Methodist Church in Athens, AL.

Dawn hosts the Baldwin County, Alabama Genealogy Trails site http://genealogytrails.com/ala/baldwin/

She will be speaking on Thursday evening, October 1st.