Jim Ewing and his wife,Evelyn Jones Ewing, live in Emporia. He is among the many descendants of John of Carnashannagh who live in the area. Jim and Evelyn authored "The Ewings of Frederick County, Virginia," an accounting of their Ewing ancestors. As a member of the 2008 Gathering Committee, they were among the hosts for Echoes of the Shenandoah.

Karen Avery began genealogical research in 1995. Her Mother's Ewing family ancestry has eluded numerous researchers for over sixty years. Recently some ancestors have been found who were residing in Connecticut as early as the 1730s. Sisters Beth Ewing Toscos and Jane Ewing Weippert are first cousins of Karen. Beth and Jane's Father is participant RC in the Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project.

Born and raised near Fort Wayne, Indiana, Karen is the wife of Commander Robert Avery, USN (Retired). Duty stations during twenty-four years of service included tours on both the East and West coasts, Gulf of Mexico, Guam and Hawaii before the family retired to Northern Virginia in 1984.

Karen Avery joined the Ewing Family Association in 1995. After attending the gatherings held in 2004, 2006 and 2008, she was elected to the Board.

David Neal Ewing has been a member of the Ewing Family Association since 1996 and has served as its Chancellor since 2006. He previously served as Chair of its Board of Directors from 2004-2006. He is also Administrator of the Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project, which he founded in 2004, and he is a regular contributor to the Association's Journal.

Dr. Ewing has a private practice in clinical geriatric neuropsychiatry in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his M.D. degree from the University of New Mexico and did his residency training at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

George William Ewing - Past Chair and Chancellor of the Ewing Family Association and sixth great-grandson of John of Carnashannagh - is a native of Muncie, Indiana, and has been a resident of Battle Creek, Michigan, since 1963. Now retired, he and his wife Marilyn spend the winter months in Boca Raton, Florida.

Joseph Neff Ewing Jr. is a former Chancellor of the Ewing Family Association (1998-2004). He is descended from Hon. John Kennedy Ewing's son, Samuel Evans Ewing, and a frequent contributor to the Association's Journal providing valuable information about his ancestors and Ewings in general.

Wallace K. 'Wally' Ewing considers himself a lifelong resident of the Grand Haven area, although his schooling and career has taken him to many other places around the world.

Wally's pre-college education was in schools in Grand Haven and Chicago. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison and received his bachelor and master degrees from Michigan State University in 1962 and 1964. He completed his doctoral studies in English at the University of Illinois in Champaign in 1971. He has taught at Michigan State University, Iowa State University and the University of Illinois. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Tehran, Iran; he worked for the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa; and he supervised English teachers in Puerto Rican public schools. Wally was Dean of the College at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. It was upon completion of his work there that he returned to his hometown for good.

Upon retirement from the Red Cross in 1995, Wally worked as Curator of Education at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum for two years and subsequently became a volunteer for the Museum. In recognition of his work, the Museum twice named Wally 'Historian of the Year'.

In August, 2006, Wally married Betty Jane Pickel Livingston, and, after a two-week honeymoon in England, the newly-married couple flew to Dalian, China, where Wally taught English writing and literature to Juniors at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics. Wally and Jane recently returned to Grand Haven, where Wally continues to research and write about local history and family genealogy. He has co-authored several books and historical research manuscripts, most recently 'Grand Haven Then and Now' scheduled for release in late 2009.

William Ewing Riddle is a great-great-great-grandson of Squire James Ewing (son of Alexander who was son of James Ewing of Inch Island). Bill is Web Master for the Association's web site and Editor of its Journal.

Outside his genealogical work, Bill helps organizations certify that their software development procedures satisfy regulatory requirements and lead to high-quality products. He holds advanced degrees from Cornell and Stanford and has worked in academia, industry and government.

I have been a member of the Ewing Family Association since 1990 when the bi-annual gathering was held in Cecil County, Maryland. My father was Rev. Dewey Ewing born in Ashland County, Ohio, while my mother, Edith Merrill, was from Westerville, Ohio. They met while students at Otterbein College in Westerville. My father served in the ministry for 48 years and he passed away just a few years after he retired. He was called on to preach at many family funerals and officiate at family weddings. He knew many of his ancestors and had kept a large collection of hand-written records. Since 1950, I have extended our family records. I have thousands of records and documents in my library on both sides of my family. My mother's ancestors include some of the early-settler Ewing's in New Jersey. I have worked many years from military records, birth records, cemetery inventories, and many courts records from several states. Our first Ewings - who came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1814 - were John and Anna Maria (Heichold) Ewing. John and his brother, William, were the sons of James Ewing who died in 1776 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

I retired, after 32 years, as Payroll Manager and Supervisor of a large company and live in Arkansas. From January until April I work for H and R Block.

I am working with the DAR on its Historical Preservation Project and preserving old bible records. My Patriot was from New York. I volunteer at the Jacksonville Museum of Military History. This is a great pleasure; every day is a new adventure in my genealogy research as I continue to find more and more interesting information.

Beth Ewing Toscos has belonged to the Ewing Family Association since 2004. Her interest in genealogy reaches back to the early 1970s when she first visited Scotland. More recently she embarked on a genealogical search for her earliest Ewing immigrant. After extensive research with the assistance of her sister, Jane Weippert Ewing, and cousin, Karen Avery, that vital fact still remains elusive. However, Beth has learned a tremendous amount about her father's family. The Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project has confirmed her family's place within the larger Ewing group.

In 2006, Beth assisted with the Association's Gathering in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Beth and her husband, Michael, reside in Fort Wayne. Beth has a B.S. from Purdue University and has worked as a Human Resources professional for the past 30 years.

Jane and her husband, William, live in rural Cecil, Ohio, where they raised three daughters. Jane worked for over thirty years as a bookkeeper for her Ewing-family landscape business. She now keeps busy with helping her 85 year-old father and babysitting her grandson. She frequently fills in at her husband's Chiropractic office. Jane has been interested in genealogy for nearly a decade.