Linda Moss Mines, the Chairman of the History and Social Sciences Department at Girls Preparatory School, was named Hamilton County Historian in 2005 by Mayor Claude Ramsey and the Hamilton County Commission.  At GPS, she teaches AP United States Government, AP Comparative Government, Constitutional Law and the Modern American Presidency.  She was recently named the DAR's 2005 TENNESSEE AMERICAN HISTORY TEACHER.

Mrs. Mines obtained her B.S. and M.A. degrees in History and Political Science from Tennessee Technological University and completed her doctoral coursework in Law and Administration from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She active in the Civil War Roundtable, the Kiwanis Club's Key Club program and numerous other historical, patriotic and genealogical organizations. Linda and her husband, Tony, own Art Creations and Art Accent here in Chattanooga and are the parents of two children.

With more than thirty years experience in genealogical research, Rufus Williamson has traveled the United States and Ireland in search of his ancestral roots. Born in Walker county Georgia, Mr. Williamson received his education in the schools of Hamilton County TN and earned his B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is currently President of Delta Genealogical Society, is a member of the National Genealogical Society, the Genealogical Society of Rockingham and Stokes Counties NC, Friends of the National Archives Southeast Region, and serves on the executive committee of the Hamilton County Tennessee Genealogical Society. He has written and published articles for Southern Roots and Shoots and has conducted genealogical workshops for several regional organizations and libraries. He has also attended more than twenty national seminars presented by the National Genealogical Society, The Federation of Genealogical Societies, and many Southeastern workshops.

James Douthat, owner of Mountain Press, a publishing house for historic and genealogical materials for most of the southern states, serves as President of the Signal Mountain Tennessee Genealogical Society, is editor of “Tennessee History and Genealogy,” founding editor of the Chattanooga Area Historical Association’s Journal, and a fifteen year past President of the Delta Genealogical Society. Mr. Douthat also holds membership in over seventy-five genealogical and historical societies across the country.

 A retired Methodist minister of 25 years, Mr. Douthat holds a BA and two Masters Degrees from Bluefield College , V. P. I, Emory University , and Tennessee Tech. He travels extensively across the southeast representing his publishing company and is a frequent and highly respected speaker at genealogical and historical workshops across the United States .