Thomas F. McGorray

Thom entered the FBI in September 1963 as a Special Agent and served in Atlanta, Ga., Monterey Calif., Washington D C., New Haven, Ct., FBIHQ (SOG) Headquarters, Tucson, AZ.(SRA), and Sacramento, Calif. He retired from the Bureau in June 1987, and currently operates three businesses out of Tucson, AZ. Thom was an FBI Special Agent for 24 years. He worked Civil Rights, ITSMV, and K. K. Klan cases in Atlanta. He studied Polish for a year at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, and then worked Espionage cases in WDC. He was instrumental in solving the Alex Rackley murder case in New Haven, in 1969 which lead to the convictions of three, and the indictments of several national members of the Black Panther Party, including Bobby Seal. Thom received several incentive awards and letters of Commendation from FBI Directors J. Edgar Hoover, and Clarence Kelley for his outstanding work in Terrorist Matters, Extremist Matters, and Espionage. He served the Bureau as the Senior Supervisory Agent in Charge in Tucson, and as a Supervisor at FBI Headquarters, and Sacramento, Calif. He was a Bureau Firearms Instructor, Hostage Negotiator, and Police (Sex Crimes) instructor. He currently holds Private Investigator's licenses in California and Arizona and conducts Federal background investigations (BICS) for the FBI.

Thom uses an iMac, a Mac Pro Laptop. Deskjet 855 Color Printer and Mustek Scanner. Software interest: Photoshop, Pagemaker, TypeStyler, Illustrator, ColorIt, Word, Wordperfect, Write Now, Quicken, MacInTax, Excel, Works, Hypercard, Netscape, Eudora, Newswatcher, Fetch, etc. He has taught MacIntosh computer classes to adults at Catalina Foothill School and Genealogy on the computer using PAF, Reunion, and Family TreeMaker software. He runs three listserves (including xgboys, for 2900 retired FBI agents. He specializes in Web Page Design and Desk Top Publishing using PageMaker and In Design.

Thom has taught several computer courses at Catalina Foothills HS. ADULT EDUCATION : Past courses taught: Internet Basics, Internet Software, Netscape, Eudora, News Watcher, HTML Scripting, Home Page Design, Genealogy on the Internet, Intermediate Claris Works (3.0), Quicken (5.0). Desk Top Publishing (Pagemaker 5.0), and 101 Things to do with a Mac He is the "Apple Ambassador" for the Tucson Mac Users Group (TMUG), edited their monthly newsletter for 13 years, and is active in several special interest groups.

Thom has spent the past thirty years working on the McGorray Family tree and the Klein family tree, specializing in Ireland, Scotland, and Germany. He has visited the Mormon library in Salt Lake City. He traveled to Ireland in September of 1994 for additional information and located several relatives in County Tyrone, in Northern Ireland. He has identified 250 McGorry families in the United States under four different spellings. He traveled to Germany in the summer of 2000 and to Scotland.

SOCIETY

Thom has been a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI since his retirement in 1987. He has served as Chairman and Vice Chairman for the Tucson Chapter and has served as an officer for the past twenty years and is currently Secretary.. He edits their monthly newsletter "Tucson Credentials" and was the Co-Chairman for the Society's Western Regional Conference that was held in Tucson in April of 1998. He served as Chairman of the Internet Committee and originated the Society's extensive home page on the Internet. He also maintains the xgboys mailing list using the Simplelists platform. The list has more than 2,800 members. Thom has served on the Long-Range Planning Committee, the Communications Committee, the Information Committee, and the Grapevine Committee. He was a Trustee for three years and received the Humanitarian Award. He attended 22 Society Conventions over the years.