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B.A.

Lecturer: Course 3


John A. Sellers is a fifth generation native to Hopkins County, Texas. He graduated from Texas Tech University, with a degree in advertising/public relations and received his teaching certificate in history from Texas A&M, Commerce.

He has been doing genealogical research since 1985. His favorite area of research is in the courthouse. He has visited courthouses in several southern states and has conducted extensive research in Texas and Louisiana. He is active member of the Hopkins County Genealogical Society and served thirteen years on the executive board and as President, 1997-1998. He was a speaker at the FGS National Conference in 1997 and 2004, and NGS in 1994. He has been the featured speaker for over 50 all-day seminars located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. He was the featured speaker at the DRT Genealogical Conference at the Alamo in 2002 and 2003, and the Louisiana Historical and Genealogical Seminar in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2007. He has been a faculty member for Angelina College Genealogy Conference, since 1999 in Lufkin and was a featured speaker at Dallas Texas Summer Institute, 2006. John has given several programs at both local and regional conferences. He is a graduate, of Samford University, Advanced Methodology Course, 1995. He compiled an addendum to the1850 Census of Hopkins County.

John is currently serving as 1st Vice President of the Hopkins County Genealogical Society and is the author of a historical newspaper article, called Hopkins County Remembered.

He currently is a loan officer with City National Bank, Sulphur Springs, TX.