Bonnie Wade-Mucia

Owner, Keeper of the Past Genealogy, LLC Director of the Silver Books Project at the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

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Business Name

Keeper of the Past Genealogy, LLC
Non-Research Specialties

Lecturer/Presenter - On-site
Research Specialties

Adoption

Colonial

DNA Specialist

Forensic

French Canadian

Heir Searcher

Lineage Societies

Mayflower

Military
Research Counties

Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States

Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States

Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
Research Provinces / States

Connecticut, United States

Maine, United States

Massachusetts, United States

New Hampshire, United States

Rhode Island, United States

Vermont, United States
Research Time Periods

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Bluffton, South Carolina, United States

Bonnie Wade-Mucia is the owner of Keeper of the Past Genealogy, LLC. She is the Director of the Mayflower Families Silver Books Project at the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD). Bonnie is a graduate of the Boston University Genealogical Certificate program OL23 and is an alumna of the ProGen Study Group 34 and the ICAPgen Study Group, working toward accreditation.

Bonnie has completed several genealogical institutes, including:

SLIG Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy -
BCG Certification, Feb-March 2024
Becoming an Accredited Genealogist, Jan 2022
Advanced Methodological Genealogy 2021; DNA 2018.
IGHR - Writing & Publishing 2021, Advanced Military Records 2020; Advanced DNA course 2019.
GRIP - Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh - Beyond Fundamentals: Hands-on Forensic Genealogy, 2021.

She works with a company that is a contractor for the U.S. Army's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Past Conflict Repatriations Branch (PCRB), to find family members of KIA/MIA from WWII and other conflicts. Bonnie is from New England but now resides in Bluffton, South Carolina.

Repositories

In Person: Beaufort County, Jasper County, SC; Chatham County, GA for record pulling of deeds, probate, etc.
Lectures

• The Mayflower Families Silver Books for Genealogists

• Overturning a Rejected Lineage Application with a Proof Argument: A Case Study

• "Moi Aussi" Finding and Providing Your French-Canadian DAR Patriot

• Setting Sail to The Mayflower Society with the Silver Books as your Guide

• Using Online Property, Tax & County Court Records in Genealogy Research to Identify living people

• 75 Years Later: Creating Wartime Family Reunions with DNA - Military Repatriation

• Shall Not Be Denied: The Victory of Women’s Suffrage (with a focus on the 19th Amendment in South Carolina)

• Stephen Bull of the Beaufort District during the Revolutionary War

• Various Mayflower Lineage and Mayflower Meeting House talks

• Finding Female Ancestors – Sun City Genealogy Society

• Identifying a Plantagenet King with DNA – Colonial Dames Lineage Society (Oct 2019)

• DNA and DAR Lineage Workshop – Emily Geiger DAR

• Lineage & Hereditary Societies, What are they and how to join them.
Publications

Rhode Island Roots journal (RIGS),
June 2023, "Untangling the Darling Web"
March 2022, "The Girl Missing"

Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 69, No. 1 Winter 2021, p. 65-70
"John Wade of Massachusetts and John Wade of Nova Scotia; Are They the Same Man?"

The Nova Scotia Genealogist
“Descendants of George Wade & Freelove Condon of Granville, Nova Scotia”
Article published in the Summer 2019 – Vol. XXVII/2 issued based on a Wade Family Bible in 1847 and covers four generations.

Certificates

Certificate in Genealogical Research (Boston University)
Affiliations

Bonnie sats on the Executive Committee of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants as a Member At Large from 2020-2023. She is a former Governor of the South Carolina Mayflower Society as well as Deputy Governor General for SC. Bonnie is a member of the Beacon Pole Hill Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She served as the South Carolina state chair for the NSDAR Commemorative Events Committee and the state chair for the DAR DNA Committee as well as co-chair of the Volunteer Genealogists Committee. She was a member of the U.S. Daughters of the War of 1812 and served the Chapter Secretary for the General Thomas Pinckney chapter in South Carolina. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, NEAPG, APG SIG Writers interest group and the Genealogical Speakers Guild.
Blog

pastkeeper.blogspot.com

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Email:	keeperofthepastgenealogy@gmail.com
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