ABOUT ME
Introduction
Diane Florence Gravel, CG, has been a Board-certified genealogist since 2002. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, she lived in Miami, Florida, for 25 years before moving to Thornton, New Hampshire, in 2001.
There, she became immersed in New England research, and in 2002 was appointed co-editor of New Hampshire Families in 1790, a project of the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists documenting the families of the 1790 census. She has lectured at regional and national conferences and has been an instructor at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG).
Diane has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Genealogists and chaired its Chapter Review Committee. In recognition of her work for APG, she was awarded the 2018 Grahame T. Smallwood Jr. Award of Merit. She is also a Past President of APG’s New England Chapter. Diane currently serves as President of the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists. She also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Thornton Public Library, an authorized FamilySearch affiliate library.
