GYNETH C. SINGHAL

SINGHAL GYNETH CHERYL McVEY HARMISON SINGHAL Genealogist and Regent Bottany Cross Chapter, NSDAR CHERYL H. SINGHAL, 70, born in Winchester, VA on November 18, 1944; married in Rockville, MD on May 6, 1967; died in Olney, MD on January 3, 2015. She was a resident of Silver Spring, MD since 1980. Funeral arrangements were handled by Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home and services were held January 10. Survivors include her husband Sat Pal Singhal, son Mahesh Daniel (Sarah Rosenberg) Singhal and three grandchildren Desmond, Eloise, and Sullivan. Born and raised in the Valley of Virginia; all sides of Cheryl's family had roots in pre-Revolutionary America. She began working in genealogy research in January 1971, long before it became a popular topic, and since that time had remained active in the field. She taught Free University classes in Genealogy at LSU Baton Rouge (1976-79) and led workshops for the East Baton Rouge Parish (LA) Library. Cheryl volunteered at the Family History Center (FHC) in Baton Rouge (1972-77). Beginning in 1991, she was on-staff at the Washington, DC Temple FHC. In 1994, she joined the thin ranks of computer genealogists and was a frequent presenter at FHC workshops, where she also had acted as moderator for numerous brick-wall sessions. She was a long time associate of and contributor to British researchers and she maintained the Hampshire County, WV GenWeb site. She participated in numerous data-entry projects for the NGS, DAR, UDC, and FHL. In 2008, she received the National Genealogical Society's Award of Merit for her long-term involvement with their Member Ancestor Charts project, now online. Cheryl was a past President of the Baton Rouge, LA Genealogical and Historical Society, a past President of the Capital PAF Users Group in Kensington, MD and a past Counselor for the Genealogy Merit Badge for Boy Scouts of America. She was a member of both the United Daughters of the Confederacy and since 1979, the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a multiple term Regent of Bottany Cross Chapter, NSDAR. She served as the Genealogist for the Cresap Society, compiling the 3rd edition of "The History of the Cresaps" in 2003, and most recently her work on the "Narrative History of the Cresaps" was in progress. She was a member of the Shanholtzer Reunion and indexed the Shanholtzer family genealogy. She specialized in research in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Louisiana, California, Great Britain, and India.Cheryl was a past President of the Baton Rouge, LA Genealogical and Historical Society, a past President of the Capital PAF Users Group in Kensington, MD and a past Counselor for the Genealogy Merit Badge for Boy Scouts of America. She was a member of both the United Daughters of the Confederacy and since 1979, the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a multiple term Regent of Bottany Cross Chapter, NSDAR. She served as the Genealogist for the Cresap Society, compiling the 3rd edition of "The History of the Cresaps" in 2003, and most recently her work on the "Narrative History of the Cresaps" was in progress. She was a member of the Shanholtzer Reunion and indexed the Shanholtzer family genealogy. She specialized in research in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Louisiana, California, Great Britain, and India.