As of August 1, 2010, all new research requests will be handled by Ms. Kathryn Parker, a long-time genealogical associate of Mrs. McCabe. Kathryn is excited to share her expertise and passion for geneaology with customers of frederick-research.com.
Kathryn Parker lives in Frederick County, Virginia, and has been a Virginia resident since 1976. She has been researching her own family lines since the 1980s. With six years experience assisting genealogists and historians in their research in the Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, she has the tools and skills to research your Valley family and ancestors. She has attended regional, state, and national research workshops. She has researched in Washington, D.C., at the DAR Library, National Archives, and the Library of Congress. She is a NIGR graduate - the National Institute for Genealogical Research - an intensive, advanced course in researching the many records at the National Archives and Records Administration.
Fascinated with this region Kate wrote the local pictorial history, Winchester (Arcadia Publishing, 2006) and local history magazine and newspaper articles. She is an active member of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society and interested in the many families of this area and in their interconnectedness.
Kate has written articles about researching Masonic ancestors in the National Genealogical Society's NGS Magazine and the Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter. Since 2007 she has served as a proofreader for the NGS Magazine. She edited two books in the NGS Research in the States Series: New Jersey (2009) and Colorado (2010). Kate provides editing services for those interested in publishing their family history and newsletters.
She was the first editor of the Shenandoah Valley Genealogical Society's (SVGS) newsletter, The Compass. She belongs to the SVGS, the Virginia Genealogical Society (VGS), the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society (WFCHS), the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), and other genealogical organizations. Kate continues to educate herself by attending genealogical classes at local, regional, and national conferences.
To contact Kathryn, use the research request form on this website, email her at KateParkerGenealogy@gmail.com, or call 540-858-2586.
Susan McCabe has been a resident of Frederick County Virginia since 1989. She was employed at the Stewart Bell, Jr., Archives of Handley Regional Library from 1997 to 2001, after which she was appointed to a position on the Joint Archives Committee. The committee, in conjunction with the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, helps to oversee the Archives, its collections, and its daily operations.
As one of the Founding Board Members for the Shenandoah Valley Genealogical Society, Susan is currently serving as the President of that organization. She has also been a past adjunct professor at Shenandoah University’s Lifetime for Learning Program, teaching beginning and secondary classes in genealogy.
Susan coordinated and co-edited a reference book entitled Index to Burials in Frederick County Virginia, which was a culmination of many months of field research in the County’s numerous cemeteries. The book has been recently updated, and is the definitive index to burials in the area. A new printing of the book is available from the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, or through the Stewart Bell Jr. Archives at PO Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604.
Susan is now into her 5th year of assisting families from across the country in finding their Shenandoah
Valley roots. She has been researching her own family for over 35 years. Susan and her husband Peter have two
sons, Tyler and Matthew McCabe.
