Douglas Richardson
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- Wayne H. Richardson
- Joan Elizabeth Kercheval
Douglas Charles Richardson | |
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| Born | April 16, 1951 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Occupation | Genealogist |
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Douglas Charles Richardson (born April 16, 1951, Sacramento, California) is an American genealogist, historian, lecturer, and author based in Salt Lake City in Utah. He has written extensively on the genealogy of medieval English gentry families and English royalty.[1][2]
Richardson was born April 16, 1951, in Sacramento, California, to Wayne H. Richardson (1917-2003) and his wife Joan Elizabeth nee Kercheval (1917-1991). He took a B.A. degree in History from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a M.A. degree in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a schoolteacher of American History he held positions at El Reno Junior College, in El Reno, Oklahoma, and at Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
He was Contributing Editor of The American Genealogist and was formerly a member of the Santa Barbara Genealogical Society and of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists.[1]
