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Charles Edward Francis Drake

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Education
B. S. summa cum laude (Physics, Georgia Southern University)
M.D. (Medical College of Georgia)

Vocation
Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

Avocation
Genealogy and heraldry
A particular focus on the genealogy of the surname Drake

Associations
Memberships include

    The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut
The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
The Royal Order of Francis I of the Royal House of Bourbon--Two Sicilies
The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
The Order of the Eagle of Georgia
The Society of Genealogists
    The Heraldry Society of Scotland
    Numerous hereditary societies

Publications
GENEALOGICAL PUBLICATIONS AUTHORED BY
CHARLES E. F. DRAKE

The Origins of the Drakes of Devon
(images on this site)

 Virginia Headrights: Genealogical Content and Usage
Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 20 (April-June 1982), pp. 50-52

The Origin of the Drake Family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia

The Drakes of the Northern Neck, Virginia

William Drake of Edgefield County, South Carolina,
Including accounts of the Drake families of Burke and Wilkes Counties, Georgia
and Tyler County, Texas

(co-authored with Colleen Sims)

The Ancestry of James Drake
of Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville County, South Carolina

The Drake Family of Washington County, Georgia, 243 pps., 2005
(ordering information)

The Origins of the Drakes of Devon: An update
Genealogists' Magazine, Vol. 28 (March 2005), pp. 201-209

Benoni Bradley of Beaufort: A Connecticut Yankee in the Low Country
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research.
Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 2005), pp. 127-132

Heraldry and the Gentleman

The Arms of Sir Francis Drake
Presented at the XXVIIIth  International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences
24 June 2008, Quebec City
Proceedings of the XXVIIIth Congress of genealogical and heraldic sciences,
June 23rd to June 27th 2008.
La Société de Généalogie de Québec 2009
ISBN: 9 782891 201162

Heraldic Privileges of the Cincinnati (Adobe pdf file)
The Augustan Omnibus, Vol. 28, No. 3, Issue #119
November 2009, pp. 11-18

The Paternal Ancestry of Robert1 Drake of Accomack County, Virginia
The Genealogist, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 100-109

 

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