Getting Started With Genealogy

Luanne Newman has been a Rotarian since 2002. Part of the Carol Stream, Illinois (suburban Chicago) club in District 6140 (the home District), she is a Past President who founded their Rotary-sponsored Community Food Drive in 2009 which is still in place today. She takes the “Service Above Self” motto to heart.  

Club Webmaster and past club president/Foundation Chair of the League City club, Luanne has been a member for 7 years. She is the current President of the Fellowship of Rotarian Genealogists and had the opportunity to share information on RI Fellowships at the 2025 Rotary International Convention stage at general sessions.

A family historian at heart, Luanne began “climbing her family tree” in 1989. She started in the Chamber of Commerce industry in 2003 in Illinois and is recently retired from the Clear Lake Area Chamber.

Luanne and her husband Bud live in Seabrook, Texas where they own Amazing.Grace.Gifts,  a pop-up candy business.