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Jeannine Alice Sheldon Kallal was born in Chicago, IL to George Andrew Sheldon and Aureola Vida Stevens. She married George Victor Kallal.

She graduated from Miami University cum laude with a B.A., M.A. plus doctoral hours from Indiana University with Spanish and French majors and English and history minors. She is an Instructor for college level Spanish.

Society Memberships

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (State Officer, National Chair, Spanish Task Force)

  • National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (President National)

  • Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (President General)

  • National Huguenot Society (President General)

  • National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (Presiding Clerk)

  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (National Registrar)

  • National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Registrar General)

  • Colonial Dames of America (National Claims Committee)

  • Plymouth Hereditary Society (Genealogist General)

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

  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (State President; National Conference Arrangement Chair)

  • National Society of New England Women (State Officer)

  • Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

  • Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Historian General)

  • Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

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

  • Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Chapter officer)

  • Presidential Families of America

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

  • National Society Southern Dames of America (State Registrar)

  • National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (State Officer)

  • Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (State Registrar)

  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State Officer)

  • Flagon and Trencher

  • National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

  • Winthrop Society

  • Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of GB

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

  • National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

  • Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

  • Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor

Other Memberships

  • American Association of University Professors

  • Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honorary)

  • Phi Sigma Iota (Romance Lang. Hon.)

Authorships

2012 Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors; Updates to the 1999 Register; 2016 Consolidated Update to the 2012 Register; revision of Maude Roberts Cowan's Genealogical Data of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of MAAm, Lineage Book XVI for A&H, and articles for various other publications.

Notes

Kallal was an international officer for many years for sorority Gamma Phi Beta, supervising both collegiate and alumni members. She is the recipient of several national awards and her hobbies include reading, bridge, needlepoint and crewel.

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