Biography:

                  “If you love what you do, you'll never have to work another day in your life."   Unknown author. 

Pam Cooper has been the supervisor of the Archive Center and Genealogy Department for the Indian River County Main Library in Vero Beach, Florida since 1986.  She built the collection from 250 to over 30,000 titles.   The Archive Center is a rich resource for Florida and local history. 

Pam served as a Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies in 1995-1998; Director of the Florida Historical Society in 1997-1999; President of the Florida State Genealogical Society 1999-2003; and with her husband, served as National Conference Co-chair of the Federation of Genealogical Societies 2003 National Conference, which was held in Orlando.

Since 1986, she has served as President, Editor and Program Chair of the Indian River Genealogical Society and as Trustee, Vice-President, and several committee chairs of the Florida State Genealogical Society. In 1994, she established the East Central Florida Genealogical Society Co-op.

Pam is a teacher and lecturer on genealogy at local, state and national levels and has been a genealogist since 1977. Working together with her mother, she published her first family history in 1993, Descendants of John W. Clark and Francis Hoff of Lincolnshire, England.   She assisted in publishing the book World War II at the Vero Beach Naval Air Station, which became available January, 2003. In 2005, she wrote the Florida chapter in the Red Book: American, State, and County Sources published by Ancestry.   She is currently working on two Florida books.