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
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- Non-Research Specialties
- Lecturer/Presenter - On-site
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- Research Specialties
- Adoption
- Colonial
- DNA Specialist
- Forensic
- French Canadian
- Heir Searcher
- Lineage Societies
- Mayflower
- Military
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- Research Counties
- Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
- Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
- Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
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- Research Provinces / States
- Connecticut, United States
- Maine, United States
- Massachusetts, United States
- New Hampshire, United States
- Rhode Island, United States
- Vermont, United States
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- 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.
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- Repositories
- In Person: Beaufort County, Jasper County, SC; Chatham County, GA for record pulling of deeds, probate, etc.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Certificates
- Certificate in Genealogical Research (Boston University)
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- 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.
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- Blog
- pastkeeper.blogspot.com
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