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 Dr. Wright's 1955 MS thesis [Vita](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright/blob/main/ms_thesis_vita.pdf) contains all the basic information we need to verify that we've got the right person.<br>
 <img src="https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright/blob/main/ms_thesis_vita_pic.png" alt="drawing" width="512"/>
 
-Using this information it's easy to use official records, newspaper articles, student papers, and geneological records to find information on Dr. Wright.
+Using this information it's easy to use official records, newspaper articles, student papers, and genealogical records to find information on Dr. Wright.
 
 Her full legal name was "Shirley Jean Wright". The sources for her middle name are numerous: Her [Stanfill Funeral Home obituary](https://www.stanfillfh.com/tributes/Shirley-Wright), this is the full name+middle name recorded on her [gavestone at Flagler Memorial Park](https://billiongraves.com/grave/Shirley-Jean-Wright/31371215), numerous Miami Herald newspaper references mentioning her full-name and her address at the [Tropicair Hotel](https://www.change.org/p/estate-of-save-the-tropicair-stop-demolition-of-880-71st-street), [Barry College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_University#Beginnings) [student newspapers](https://eguides.barry.edu/c.php?g=456648&p=3122505), [faculty references](https://www.mdc.edu/archives/assets/college_documents_page/9.underconstruction.pdf), [her chemistry M.S. dissertation](https://chemistry.as.miami.edu/graduate/graduate-dissertations/index.html), [Florida Academy of Sciences Vol. 36 Fall 1973](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24319475?read-now=1&seq=13) list mentioning her full name+middle name and her address at the Tropicair Hotel, etc.