Announcing New Fellow: Jane Adams Clarke

Announcing New Fellow: Jane Adams Clarke Tane Adams Clarke, a professional genealogist for more than twenty was elected a Fellow of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Jbyyears, vote of the Board of Directors of the Society at its meeting on 27 June 1997. A long-time member of the GSP, she became a life member in 1992, and currently serves as an Honorary President. She is also former chair of the GSP Accessions Committee, board member and Publications Committee chair for the Federation of Genealogical Societies, and past member of the Steering Committee for the Genealogical Study Group of the Historical Society of Montgomery County. Her many other professional memberships include: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Pennsylvania German Society, Palatines to America, Association for Professional Gene¬ alogists, Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, National Genea¬ logical Society, Fellowship of Brethren Genealogists, South Central Genealogical Society, Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, Germantown His¬ torical Society, Johannes Schwalm Historical Society, Perry Historians, So¬ ciety of Genealogists (England), and the historical societies of Berks, Bucks, and Montgomery counties. Appointed as editor of Penn in Hand in 1984, she continues to serve in that position. Her contributions of “Research Tips” as a supplement to that publication have been most helpful to both novice and advanced genealo¬ gists. A sampling of her numerous other publications includes: “Cobwebs on My Mind: Untangling Family Relationships,” Pennsylvania Folklife 34, no. 1 (1984); “An Ancestor Lost: Clues Hidden in Administration Papers,” PGM 35, no. 1 (1987); “Emigrants from Hesse, Germany, Who Left One after Another for Pennsylvania, 1746-1766,” PGM 35, no. 4 (1988); “Some Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Hochst in dem Odenwald,” PGM 36, no. 4 (1990); "Serendipity: Hidden Documents in Philadelphia Probate Records,” Forum 6, no. 3 (1994). 147