Debra Newton-Carter

Debra Newton-Carter is a third-generation family historian, specializing in cross-cultural genealogy. She has researched her 27 lines of descent through eight Mayflower ancestors, and early Massachusetts and Rhode Island families including NEWTON, KING, WING, and MOSHER.

A past official co-historian of the George Family Reunion Committee, she compiled the history and database used to establish the only Sons of the American Revolution chapter named for a Forgotten Patriot, the NCSSAR Patriot Isaac Carter Chapter. Her late husband, Cedric C. Carter, was a charter member, the 3rd greatgrandson of Isaac Carter, and a descendant of six of the 14 Harlowe Patriots.

She holds a BA in creative writing and psychology and has worked toward certification through the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG). Her affiliations include the National Genealogical Society (NGS), North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS), Afro-American Historic Genealogical Society (AAHGS), New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NHG&B), New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS, past member), and the Association for the Society of African American Life and History (ASALH, past member).