Douglas Richardson


Douglas Charles Richardson is an American genealogist, historian, lecturer, and author based in Salt Lake City in Utah. He has researched cases involving all periods of American research from colonial to the modern times. He has written extensively on the genealogy of medieval English gentry families and English royalty.

Early life and career

Richardson was born April 16, 1951 in Sacramento, California to Wayne H. Richardson and his wife Joan Elizabeth nee Kercheval. He took a B.A. degree in History from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a M.A. degree in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a schoolteacher of American History he held positions at El Reno Junior College, in El Reno, Oklahoma, and at Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
He was Contributing Editor of The American Genealogist and was formerly a member of the Santa Barbara Genealogical Society and of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists.

Publications

Major books

Other books

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
The American Genealogist
Heritage Quest Magazine
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Foundations

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