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I am
Jean Huot
Smoorenburg and moved to
Houston, Texas in 1973 from Massachusetts and to Conroe, Texas in 1977 when I married Anthony
Smoorenburg. I've lived in Montgomery County ever since. Our two children were born in
Montgomery County Texas and all of our grandchildren have been born in Texas -
four
in Montgomery County. For more information about the Smoorenburgs, visit our
nephew's Smoorenburg web site
www.smoorenburg.com.
So over the past years, I've developed strong ties to Montgomery County and
cannot imagine living anywhere else.
Jean & Anthony Smoorenburg
I research primarily in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, The Netherlands, and New
England. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts and former teacher, I was
the was past genealogy
HAL-PC SIG
(Special Interest Group) Leader at
Houston Area
League of PC Users in Houston Texas and have been Deputy Editor of
HAL-PC Magazine from 1991– 2008. I am a member of
Clayton Library Friends and the
Montgomery
County Genealogical and Historical Society
(MCG&HS) former editor of their
publication, The Herald and served as VP of membership and publicity. I received MCG&HS' Hall of Fame Award in 2005
as did Jane Keppler in 2004. 
Hall of Fame Award 2005
L-R: Robin Montgomery, Barbara Franz, Jean Smoorenburg, & Gladys May.
To learn more about Texas and Montgomery County History, I did the genealogy research
for my stepdaughter to obtain an Early Settlers Certificate from MCG&HS and to
become a member of the
Daughters of the
Republic of Texas
(DRT) for her ancestor, Hugh Davlin.
As you can see, I'm truly addicted...
I currently teach
genealogy classes at Lone Star College - Montgomery for
ALL (Academy for Lifelong Learning):
Beginning Genealogy, Genealogy in the 21st Century, Intro to Researching Across
the Pond after 1850, and Genealogy Software along with
Phyllis Stehm. After ten years of volunteering as Instructors for the ALL program, Phyllis and I were named
ALL Instructors for the year 2010 at their open house held August 20, 2010. 
ALL Instructors of the Year - 2010
Because of the need we saw while teaching our ALL classes, in October 2007 Phyllis
and I began MCG-IRG (Montgomery County Genealogists'-Internet
Research Group) to help others learn to effectively search on the
Internet. "IRG", by the way, is the exclamation you make when you can't find something on the Internet! MCG-IRG
meets the first Friday of the months from 9:15 am - Noon and the first Wednesday following the first Friday in the evening from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at the George & Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Library in The Woodlands.
It's a great pleasure to assist Jane Keppler on the Montgomery County website to help others with their
genealogy research. Please be patient with us while we revamp the site.
If you have any records or
articles of interest for the Montgomery County web site or wish to volunteer, please email us with the details.
We're always looking for new information and volunteers to help!
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