About Elizabeth Shown Mills
Born 1944. Elizabeth Shown Mills is an American genealogist, writer, historian, prose writer and novelist.
Biography Mills was born on December 29, 1944, in Cleveland, Mississippi. Most of her career has been focused on researching the genealogy and history of the American South.
Mills started her career as the secretary of the American Society of Genealogists (1992–1995). She was the vice president of ASG from 1995 to 1998, and the president from 1998 to 2001.
In 2004, she wrote a historical novel, Isle of Canes, about the Creoles of Cane River in Louisiana.
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Who is Elizabeth Shown Mills?
American novelist, genealogist
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Elizabeth Shown Mills was born on 29 December 1944 in Cleveland.
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Elizabeth Shown Mills is a genealogist, writer, historian, prose writer and novelist.
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