Wendy is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton, where she teaches a variety of history courses such as U.S. History surveys, Oral History, California and Orange County History, Public History, and the department's required Historical Thinking and Historical Writing courses. She serves as instructor and faculty advisor for the history honor students' national award-winning publication, Welebaethan, and has served as the faculty advisor for the Native American student association on campus for seven years.

She is President of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and has served on its Board of Directors for many years. Wendy also serves on the national Records Preservation and Access committee. She served several terms as president of the California State Genealogical Alliance during the 1980s and 1990s.

She is an internationally known genealogical teacher and speaker and has lectured at national conferences throughout the United States since 1984. In 2008 she will present two lectures at the NGS Conference in St. Louis and gave four for the FGS Conference in August 2007 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. In July 2003 Wendy attended the National Institute for Genealogical Research at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

She is an accomplished writer as well as speaker. She did a column for the APG Quarterly, and her article on “Finding Wives’ and Daughters’ Names” recently appeared in the NGS Quarterly. She wrote two articles in the 2006 Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West (Sage Publications). She wrote five chapters for the 2004 revision of Ancestry's Redbook: American State, County, & Town Sources. She also wrote two chapters for Printed Sources (1998). She co-edited (with Johni Cerny) and authored several chapters in The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library in 1988 which won the coveted Reference Book of the Year Award from the American Library Association in 1989. Wendy has also authored numerous genealogical research articles in a wide variety of genealogical publications including FGS FORUM.

Wendy served as president of the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) in 2003-4. In 2002, she planned and organized the SOHA regional conference at El Pueblo in downtown Los Angeles in April  and again at CSUF in 2007. She served as National Conference Chair of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) Conference held in Ontario, California, in August 2002 and currently serves as co-chair for the FGS 2008 conference in Philadelphia. She has presented or moderated panels at all but one SOHA conference since 1994.

She served also on the advisory committee for the California Studies Association (an elected position for the statewide organization of scholars from various fields including history, geography, and political science). Additionally, she served as a paid consultant on the Boyle Heights (oral history) Project for the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. In that capacity she helped plan several community interest projects, worked with the project team--including several other scholars--in preparation for the museum=s exhibit funded by a NEH Grant, and interviewed several individuals who grew up in Boyle Heights.    

Wendy Bebout Elliott, Ph.D., FUGA, 1060 Magnolia Avenue, Placentia, CA 92870-4423
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