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Karen Avery Miller
Karen Lavone Avery Miller, a native of
Missouri,
is the daughter of Frances Lavone Silver and the late
Harry Hollis Avery, Jr.
She is married to Henry Clay Miller; and has one
daughter, Carie Michelle (Mrs. Timothy James Wright) and
grandchildren.
Mrs.
Miller attended
Central Missouri University
in Warrensburg, MO. Her career is diverse and
included employment at
George K. Baum & Co. in the investment banking sector;
as a retail sales representative in Dallas, Texas; and
as a Realtor at Henry S. Miller Real Estate. Mrs.
Miller is also a professional genealogist.
Memberships
* Guild of
Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Founder;
Honorary
President General)
* National Society
Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-
1861 (President General)
* Order of
the First Families of Maine 1604-1652 (President General)
* Plymouth
Hereditary
Society (former Governor General)
* Order of
the First Families of
Connecticut (Deputy Governor
General)
* Hereditary
Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Registrar General)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Second
Vice President General)
*
Continental Society Daughters of Indian
Wars (Recording Secretary
General)
* National Society Dames of the Court of Honor (former Corresponding
Secretary General)
* Order of
the First Families of
Massachusetts (former Marshall
General)
* Colonial
Dames of
America (Chapter Board of Management)
* General Society of Mayflower
Descendants (former Texas State
Recording
Secretary)
* National
Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former Chapter
Regent)
* National
Society Daughters of 1812 (former Chapter First Vice President)
* National
Society of New England
Women (former Chapter President;
National Committee)
* National
Society Daughters of American Colonists (former Chapter Regent)
* National
Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Texas Branch
Deputy Governor)
* National
Society Descendants of Early Quakers (National Corresponding
Clerk)
* National
Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century
* Flagon and
Trenchers, Descendants of Colonial Tavern
Keepers
* National
Society Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company
* Society of
the Descendants of Colonial Clergy
* National
Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
* Sons and
Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts
* Society of
the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
* Daughters
of Union Veterans of the Civil War
* National
Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865
* First
Families of Ohio
* Order of
Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
*
Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor
* Sons and
Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
1565-
1861
* Hereditary
Order of Descendants of the Loyalist & Patriots of the
American Revolution
* Winthrop Society
* Illinois
Prairie Pioneers
*
Presidential Families of America
* National
Society Southern Dames of America
* National
Society of Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
* Hereditary
Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies
of
America
* Piscataqua
Pioneers
* Old
Plymouth Hereditary Society
* National
Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
* National
Society of the Blue and Gray
*
National Gavel Society
Chivalric Orders
* The
Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John in
Jerusalem
(Serving Sister, bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of England)
Authorships
Compiler:
Daughters of the American Colonists National Lineage
Book XXXVIII (Topeka, KS: Jostens Publishing Company,
2009), 680+ pages including index
Editor:
TEXAS STATE MAYFLOWER, Newsletter (1997-2001); ARMORIAL
HERALD, Order of Americans Armorial Ancestry Newsletter
(2007-2011); THE PLANTER, National Society Sons and
Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 Newsletter
(2009-2011); ANCHOR AND PINE, Order of the First
Families of Maine 1604-1652 Newsletter (2009-2011);
PLAIN LANGUAGE, Descendants of Early Quakers Newsletter
(2007-2009); Co-Editor, GUILD GAZETTE, Guild of Colonial
Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 Newsletter (2004-2011).
Articles
published in:
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 90, No.4,
December 2002, p.311-316; As well as numerous articles
written for, and published in, each newsletter listed
above.
Other Notes
Mrs.
Miller's proudest accomplishment is that of being a
Wife, Mother and now Grandmother (i.e. Mimi) to two
grandsons, two step-granddaughters and four
step-grandsons ranging in age from four (4) to
twenty-five (25) years.
She has
been a member of the Washington Club since 2000.
Mrs. Miller currently attends Grace and Holy Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral, a Member of the Diocese of West
Missouri, Kansas City, MO.
Her
current memberships include The Association of
Professional Genealogists (APG); the National
Genealogical Society (NGS); The Federation of
Genealogical Societies (FGS 1997 Conference Regional
Publicity Chairman); The New England Historic and
Genealogical Society (NEHGS); The Association for
Gravestone Studies (AGS); The New Hampshire Genealogical
Society; Charter Member of the Carroll County [MO]
Genealogical Association; The Dallas [TX] Genealogical
Society (Past President, 2000 DGS Award of Merit
recipient, Capital Expansion Project Chairman); The
Dedham [MA] Historical Society; and the Cape Cod
Genealogical Society.
Additionally, Mrs. Miller has participated in
genealogical educational workshops and conferences for
NGS, FGS, GenTech, NEHGS Sesquicentennial, Boston, MA;
Virginia Institute of Genealogical Records (VIGR),
Richmond, VA; alumni of the National Institute on
Genealogical Research (NIGR), National Archives,
Washington DC; Dallas Institute, Dallas Texas.
She is a
national, regional and local speaker on genealogical and
historical topics. Has conducted beginner and advanced
genealogy research seminars. Worked as a Volunteer
Genealogist at the DAR National Headquarters, Washington
DC, 2000-2002, verifying over 100 supplemental papers.
She has prepared and submitted over 200 of her own
ancestor supplements for various societies. |
