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Lloyd de Witt
Bockstruck
Lloyd de Witt
Bockstruck,
the son of Harry Earl Bockstruck and Olive Elsie Blakenship, was born at Vandalia, Illinois. He
graduated cum laude with an B.A. in Biology and
History from
Greenville College in
1967. Mr. Bockstruck received an M.A. in Modern
European History from
Southern Illinois University
in 1969, and and M.S. in Library Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana
in 1973. He received a certificate from the
Institute of Genealogy and
Historical Research, Samford University, in
June 1973.
Mr. Bockstruck was a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the
Department of History, Southern Illinois University,
1967-69. He served as a secondary teacher and
librarian at Mombasa Baptist High School in Mombasa, Kenya,
1969-71, and a Graduate Assistant in the School of Library
Science at the University of Illinois, 1971-73. He
joined the Dallas Public Library in 1973. From 1974
to 1991 he served as an instructor in the School of
Continuing Education, Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas. He is the senior ranking faculty
member of the Institute of Genealogy and Historical
Research, Samford University, having joined in 1974.
He has been on the faculty of the Genealogical Institute
of Mid-America, University of Illinois at Springfield,
since 1994. He has authored the genealogical column,
"Family Tree," in the Dallas Morning News, Dallas,
Texas, since 1991.
Memberships
* Society of
the Cincinnati in the State of Delaware
* National Society Americans of Royal Descent
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Colonial Order of the Acorn
* Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
* The Military Order Of The Crusades
* General Society of Colonial Wars (former Deputy
Governor General for the
Texas Society)
*
National Guild of
St. Margaret
(Genealogist General)
* Jamestowne
Society
*
Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the
Kings of Britain
* Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former
Registrar General)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (former
Genealogist General)
*
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
*
Aztec Club of 1847
*
Order of Indian Wars in the United States of America
* General Society of the War of 1812 (former President of
the Texas
Society)
*
General Society Sons of the Revolution (former
President of the Texas
Society)
* National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
(former Librarian
General)
* Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots
American Revolution
* Order Of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and
Chirurgiens
*
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial &
Antebellum Bench & Bar
1565-1861
* Order of the First
Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
* Order of First Families of North Carolina
* Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
* National Society of Descendants of Early Quakers
(National Inquirer)
* Hereditary Order of First Families of Massachusetts
* National
Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former
Historian of
the Texas Society)
*
National Society of Sons of American Colonists
*
National Society Sons of Colonial New England
*
National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
(former President of
the Texas Society)
*
Piscataqua Pioneers
* Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
*
Descendants of Founders of New Jersey
* Flagon &
Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers
*
Descendants of Mexican War Veterans
* Sons of the Republic of Texas (Honorary Member)
*
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
*
Naval Order of the United States
Other Notes
Mr. Bockstruck is a member of Phi Alpha
Theta; Beta Beta Beta; Phi Kappa Phi; and Beta Phi Mu.
He became a Fellow of the National Genealogical Society in
1992. In 1994, Mr. Bockstruck was named Outstanding
Alumnus of the Institute of Genealogical and Historical
Research. He received the Filby Prize for
Genealogical Librarianship in 1999, and in 2003, he
received the Northeast Texas Library Systems Lifetime
Achievement Award.
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