DAVID A. BELL has served as the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Arlington County and the City of Falls Church for more than 20 years. Mr. Bell is past president of the Virginia Court Clerk's Association and is currently a member of the Advisory Commission on Rules of Court. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University.

CONLEY L. EDWARDS III has been on the staff of the Library of Virginia for 23 years and was appointed Archivist of Virginia in 1995. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond.

ERIC G. GRUNDSET has been Library Director for the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. since 1983. He is a former president, and current a second-term member of the Virginia Genealogical Society Board of Governors, as well as serving the National Genealogical Society as a counselor and first vice-president.

LYNDON H. HART III, head of the Description Services Branch, Archival and Information Services Division of the Library of Virginia, has been with the Library for 16 years. A graduate of the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia, Mr. Hart has published abstracts of county records as well as genealogical articles and family histories. He is a genealogist for the Jamestowne Society.

JOHN T. KNEEBONE is director of the Publications and Educational Services Division of the Library of Virginia. A graduate of the University of Virginia, he joined the Library's staff in 1986 after teaching history at the University of Alabama, Harvard and Princeton universities.

BARBARA VINES LITTLE is a professional genealogist and lecturer specializing in Virginia record sources, land platting, neighborhood reconstruction and tax records. Past president of the Virginia Genealogical Society, she is editor of the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy and co-editor of the Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter. She is an adjunct faculty member of Germanna Community College and a high school English teacher.

MARIANNE McKEE, Map Specialist and Research Archivist, joined the Library of Virginia's Archives Description Branch in 1982. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and Catholic University of America. Her primary goals are to preserve the maps we have, obtain the maps we need, and to encourage researchers to develop and appreciation of maps, the cultural, historical and technical information they contain, and to use maps in their projects.

JAMES D. MUNSON, a cultural historian, completed his doctoral studies at the University of Maryland in 1984. His dissertation focused on the founding, the founders, and subsequent leadership of 18^th century Alexandria. His current project is a total re-creation of Alexandria in its first years, 1749-1800.

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