• Going through pictures in my maternal Grandmomie's possession started me on the quest to find out more about my ancestors. My journey into genealogy research began over 20 years ago under the instruction/direction of a paternal cousin, a noted Texas historian, and one of the co-founders of the Texas Cauble-Rotan Family Association. I owe my start to learning the essentials of basic genealogy to my cousin and will be forever grateful to my mentor.  - Revis C. Leonard    
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   Genealogy education is ongoing and I try to attend as many conferences, seminars and institutes as possible. Those include: 


• *Boston University, Genealogical Essentials - 2012
• *Boston University, Certificate in Genealogical Research - 2014 
  *NGS, FTDNA and other genealogy seminars/conferences
  *Forensic Genealogy Institute(s) - 2015, 2016 and 2017
• *Austin Genealogical Society - 2018: Using Autosomal DNA for 18th and 19th Century Mysteries,     Using Third-Party Tools to Analyze Autosomal DNA, the Danger of Distance Matches, and Begging     for Spit (presented by Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D.) 
•  *Family Tree DNA Administrator's conferences
• *Texas State Genealogical Society - Virtual Conference - 2018
• *National Genealogical Society conferences
• *Local and State genealogical society's workshops and conferences 


•   MEMBERSHIPS:
  
  
• *Association of Professional Genealogists
• *National Genealogical Society (NGS)
  *ISSOG (International Society of Genetic Genealogy)
• *Texas State Genealogical Society
  *Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR):
        Uvalde de las Encinas Chapter NSDAR: Registrar-elect (2018), past Historian
• *San Antonio Genealogical Society
• *Texas Cauble-Rotan Family Association: Scrapbook and DNA Chairman.
  *Callaway Family Association: Co-Genealogist (America) /Board Member (2009-Oct 2019) 
  *Administrator or Co-Administrator of several Y-DNA Surname Projects (FTDNA)


• I've also been involved in several professional and volunteer organizations, including the Texas Association of Legal Professionals, the San Antonio LSA (Chairman-Scholarships), Chicktime Smalltown and The Open Table. 

     
      PERSONAL RESEARCH: 
      Surnames: Cauble, Dennis/Freeman (Y-DNA proven to be Freeman's), Kolb, Stuart/Stewart (Y-DNA proven), Martin, Teel,
      Ziegenfuss, Hardin, Jones, Stainton, Lafferty, Hester, Easter (possibly), Summer Moon, Sharp as Fox, Dancing Waters,
      Baldridge, Trenkmann, Garrett, Festervan, Wright, Stoud, Musgrove, Ham, Rotan, Curtis, McCollister, Middleton, Byrd,
      Nettles, Simmons, Mathews, Matthews, Ragge, Frasdorf, Tyner, Walston, Gay, Adair, Pryor, Schumacher, Hendricks,
      Liuwes, Harris, Tomlin, Oliver, Miller, Landrum, Norman, Long, Gryder, Perryman, Brake, Schenk, Wills, Miears, Wright,
      Taylor, Gray, Henry, Shuler, Morgan, Johnson, Benton, Glasscock, Baldridge, Zumwalt, Callaway, Tillery, Fruit, Beverly
       (possibly), Arnold, Ziegler/Ziglar, Proctor, Zimmerman, Johnson, Gould, Wascole, Colwick, Burton, Trammell, Moss
       (possibly), Rose, Cooksey, Yates, Oliver, Waters, Duke, Stark, Beaks, Gordon, Majors, Drury, Barber, Graham, King,
       Pennington, Thornton, Williams, Rowland, Archibald, Weir, Courtney and more.

       LOCATIONS: Texas, Indian Territory, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
       Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Maine, Delaware, New York,
       Prussia, Ireland, Scotland, England, the Netherlands and more.  

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