{"id":1202,"date":"2018-04-11T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/?page_id=1202"},"modified":"2023-02-26T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T13:46:04","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MS in Telecommunications I am now retired after a 32 year career with the company now known as AT&amp;T (originally the Southwestern Bell Telephone company).&nbsp; I have been involved in Genealogy since 1999, focusing on&nbsp; mother\u2019s German branch and father\u2019s Norwegian ancestors.&nbsp;I am also an avid amateur photographer and have made numerous presentations on a variety of technology related topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been active in the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/dallasgenealogy.com\/dgs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Genealogical Society<\/a> as the leader of their Technology Special Interest Group, Vice President of Education, Webmaster, President and Past President. The web site I managed has won several first place awards in the Texas State Genealogical Society&#8217;s &#8216;Partner Society Website Design&#8217; annual competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently the Director of Membership for the Texas State Genealogical Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, I have received several genealogy related awards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u2018Volunteer of the Year\u2019 from the Dallas Genealogical Society in 2010<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Volunteer of the Year\u2019 from the Texas State Genealogical Society in 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Heritage Preservation Award&#8217; from the Dallas Genealogical Societies&nbsp; in 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8216;President&#8217;s Special Award&#8217; from the Dallas Genealogical Society in 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8216;Award of Merit&#8217; from the Dallas Genealogical Society in 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8216;Presidential Citation&#8217; award from the Texas State Genealogical Society in 2020 and 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Place &#8211; &#8216;Genealogy\/Family Website by an Individual&#8217; &#8211; 2022 &#8211; Texas State Genealogical Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tony Hanson<\/strong><br>Dallas, Texas, USA<br>ah0265 [at] gmail [dot] com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MS in Telecommunications I am now retired after a 32 year career with the company now known as AT&amp;T (originally the Southwestern Bell Telephone company).&nbsp; I have been involved in Genealogy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1202\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}