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Jane Elizabeth Routt Power, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, is the daughter of Robert Ralph and Maurine Scott Routt. She was married to the late John Michael Power, and has four stepsons: Michael, Stephen, Barry and Jason Power, as well as nine (9) grandchildren and four (4) great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Power received her B.S. in Education, History and English, North Texas State University. During her career she was the Director of Human Resources at Garrett Electronics, Inc. dba Garrett Metal Detectors. Garrett is a world-wide company manufacturing security and hobby metal detectors. Additionally, Mrs. Power has been the president/owner of J&J Power Communications for over twenty-five (25) years; a woman/minority-owned certified advertising specialties, promotion and marketing company.

Society Memberships

  • Founders Fellowship (President; Vice President; Founding Secretary)

  • Crown and Sceptre (Co-Founder)

  • Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Honorary President General; Chaplin General; Founding Recording Secretary General)

  • Delmarva First Families (Past President; Reorganizing Registrar)

  • Legion of Vikings and Valkyries (Founding President)

  • Scions of Freedom Signers (Founding President)

  • Military Order of the Southern Cross in the Pacific Theatre (Registrar; Past President)

  • Non Compos Mentis (Past President; Founding President)

  • The IX (Chief Justice; Founding Genealogist)

  • Order of the First Scottish War of Independence, 1296-1320 (Founding Vice President)

  • National Society Founders of Places of Worship in America (Parliamentarian)

  • National Society of New England Women (Honorary President General)

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (Honorary President General)

  • Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America (Honorary Past President)

  • Descendants of Fossors (Honorary Founding President)

  • National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary President General; Past National Parliamentarian; Texas State Parliamentarian; Honorary Texas State President)

  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Honorary President General)

  • National Society of Saints and Sinners (Honorary Founding President)

  • Hereditary Society of Teachers (Honorary Founding President General)

  • Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Honorary Governor General)

  • National Order of the Blue and Gray (Commanding General Retired)

  • Associated Daughters of Early American Witches (Honorary President General)

  • Order of the Descendants of El Cid (Governor; First Lieutenant Governor; Founding Keeper of the Purse)

  • Order of Alba (Past Second Vice President General; Historian)

  • National Society Southern Dames of America (National Parliamentarian; Past National Recording Secretary; Texas State Treasurer; Past Texas State President; Past President, North Texas Chapter)

  • The Commonwealth Assembly (Founding Registrar)

  • Society of the Descendants of Colonial Regulators (Vice President; Past Founding Registrar)

  • Order of the Vietnam War (Founding Genealogist/Registrar)

  • Descendants of Swiss Settlers (Founding Treasurer)

  • Descendants of Miners 1607-1907 (Past Registrar General)

  • Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Past Marshal General)

  • Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of GB (Founding Director)

  • Winthrop Society (President; Parliamentarian; Past First Vice President)

  • Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers (Councilor)

  • Order of Monarchs of Rheims (Past/Founding Parliamentarian)

  • National Huguenot Society (Past Treasurer General)

  • Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 (Past Genealogist/Registrar General)

  • Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Past/Founding Herald)

  • National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Past National Parliamentarian; Heart of Texas Chapter, Past President)

  • Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Past Parliamentarian) 

  • Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Past/Founding Keeper of the Purse)

  • Descendants of Brian Boru (Past/Founding Treasurer)

  • Order of the Steel Magnolias (Past/Founding Registrar)

  • Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Past/Founding Genealogist)

  • Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Past/Chancellor of Exchequer)

  • National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Past/Founding Parliamentarian)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Past/Founding Historian General)

  • Order of the First Families of Maine (Past/Founding Historian General)

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Past Keeper of the Rolls)

  • Military Order of the Crusades (Past Keeper of the Rolls)

  • National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons (Honorary Division Regent)

  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Honorary Texas State President)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Past Texas State Curator; Honorary Colonel George Mason Chapter Regent)

  • National Society Children of the American Revolution (Past Senior Society President, Isaac Freese and Matthew Bolton Societies; Texas State and N.S.C.A.R. National Promoter)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Honorary Chapter Regent, Thomas Poe Chapter, Dallas)

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Past Texas State Parliamentarian)

  • United Daughters of the Confederacy

  • Confederate P.O.W. Society

  • Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

  • Jamestowne Society

  • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

  • Order of the First World War

  • Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

  • Flagon and Trencher (Treasurer)

  • Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

  • National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.

  • Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

  • National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

  • Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

  • Point Lookout Prisoner of War Organization

  • Presidential Families of America

  • Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge

  • America’s First Families

  • Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters

  • International Military Order of the Southern Cross

  • National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865

  • Society of the Descendants of the Founding Fathers of New England

  • Descendants of Whaling Masters

  • Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

  • National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

  • National Society Ladies of the Thistle

  • National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

  • R.I.F.R.A.F.

  • Noble Society of Celts

  • Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (Deputy Governor General)

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

  • First Families of Kentucky

  • Society of Middletown First Settlers

  • Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware (National Parliamentarian)

  • Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company

  • Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

  • Plymouth Hereditary Society

  • National Society of the Descendants of Textile Workers of America, Inc.

  • Society of Indiana Pioneers

  • Order of the Knights of the Garter (Descendant Member)

  • Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

  • Huguenot Society of South Carolina

  • Society of Descendants of the Founders of the New Haven Colony

  • Colonial Dames of America

  • Order of the First Families of Maryland

  • North American Manx Association

  • Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

  • Piscataqua Pioneers

  • First Families of Pennsylvania

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

  • Order of the Norman Conquest

  • Pioneer Settler of Kansas

  • Families of Antebellum Missouri

  • Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic

  • Descendants of Early First Responders

  • Merciful Society of Magi (Scouting Liaison)

  • Society of the First Families of New York

  • Governor William Bradford Compact

  • Descendants of American Prisoners of War

  • Order of the Descendants of Native Americans and Friends

  • Descendants of the Green Mountain Boys

  • Cloak and Dagger

  • Order of Founders of the Granville District 1663 – 1763

  • Descendants of Early American Governors. 1607-1860

  • Descendants of Early American Railroad Workers

  • Order of the Star and Sail

  • Order of the First Scottish War of Independence (Founding Vice President)

 

Authorships

Co-Author
Deed Book A, Ohio County Court Records, Hartford, KY
Granville County, North Carolina Cemetery Records

Author
Arnold’s Expedition in ’75 to Canada

Index Compiled
Record of Burials, Painesville, Lake County, OH
Cemetery Records of Montgomery County, OH

Published in
The Garland Genealogical Society Newsletter
Dallas Genealogical Society Newsletter
Lancaster (TX) Genealogical Society Newsletter
Illinois Genealogical Quarterly
The Pilgrim News-Letter

Chivalric Orders

  • Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem

Professional Memberships

National Association of Professional Women
SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management)
Lifelong member of the Presbyterian church

Awards

Daughters of the American Revolution

  • 1999 National Outstanding First Place Team, Museum Correspondent Docent

  • 1999 National Outstanding Museum Correspondent Docent

  • 2000 Outstanding Texas State DAR Volunteer Genealogist; South Central Division Winner

  • 2000 Special Recognition Congress Certificate, Volunteer Genealogist

Sons of the American Revolution

  • 2007 Recipient of the S.A.R. Martha Washington Medal

United Daughters of the Confederacy

  • Winnie Davis Medal Recipient

  • 100 Million Dollar Club of Shriners Hospitals for Children

  • Pearce Collection at Navarro Junior College Certificate of Appreciation (over 100 hours transcribing Civil War letters and diaries for the collection)

  • Texas Special Olympics Events, 1991 Outstanding Dallas Volunteer

  • Volunteers Against Multiple Sclerosis, 1985 “Most Used and Abused Volunteer”

Other Notes

Mrs. Power’s avocations include researching and enjoying history and genealogy for over thirty-five years. She is a professional genealogy lecturer and teacher, as well as a frequent guest on “The Family History Show” hosted by Michael Matthews aired on the Texas State Radio Network.

Additionally, Mrs. Power is Past President of the Garland Genealogical Society; a Fellow of Scottish Antiquaries; as well as a member of the National Gavel Society, P.E.O., the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, a Yellow Rose of Texas, and an Arkansas Traveler. She holds professional membership in the National Association of Parliamentarians, and the Texas Association of Parliamentarians.

 

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