Bernard Meisner
Bernard Meisner is a genealogist and lecturer based in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. He began researching his family over 30 years ago and enjoys sharing lessons learned from that experience, including his mistakes. Although he knew only one grandparent (his maternal grandfather), he has successfully identified all of his great-great grandparents, many triple- and quadruple-great grandparents, and his Meisner 8th-great-grandparents.
He is a past president of the Mid-Cities Genealogical Society, a co-leader of the Dallas Genealogical Society?s German Genealogy Group, and a member of the Texas State and National Genealogical Societies.
Bernard retired from the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters where he was the Chief of the Science & Training Branch. He is certified as a consulting meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society. He has taught at the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma, and St. Thomas (Houston).
Bernard earned a BS in physics/German from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and an MS and PhD in meteorology from the University of Hawaii. He has completed coursework of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies and has attended the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh each of the last six years, completing courses in Irish, German and Pennsylvania Research, Digital Research Skills, and Practical Genetic Genealogy.