Finley, Carmen J.

Biography

Carmen J. Finley, PhD., C.G., is a retired research psychologist. Her interest in genealogy began in 1979 and she started publishing articles in 1988, her first being in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Since then she has published additional articles in the NGS Quarterly as well as in The Virginia Genealogist, the American Genealogist and Tennessee Ancestors. She is the author of "The Finleys of Early Sonoma County, California," published by Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, in 1997.

She has been chairman of the NGS Family History Contest since 1990, for which she received the NGS Distinguished Service Award in 1996. She is especially interested in methodology as it applies to the study of family history. In 1998 she and the Sonoma State University library jointly received the GENTECH Applied Technology award for outstanding contributions to technological and genealogical quality, based on the development of this database.

She is a native of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, and the fourth generation of her family to live in Sonoma County.

From the guide to the Finley McFarling Genealogy Collection, (Sonoma State University Library)