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Jordan Jones is a writer, genealogist, and publisher.

He received his BA in Honors in English with a minor in Philosophy (magna cum laude) from California State University Northridge (1987), and his MA in English from UC Davis (1991).

He has pub­lished poetry, fic­tion, non-fiction, and works in trans­la­tion in numer­ous mag­a­zines and antholo­gies, and is the author of two books of poetry, Sand & Coal: Poems (Futharc Press, 1993) and The Wheel: Poems (Leaping Dog Press, 2005), both of which con­tain poems on fam­ily his­tory subjects. He has also published three chapbooks, two being a translation of René Daumal's Le Contre-Ciel.

Jordan has been an ama­teur geneal­o­gist since 1973; has designed, edited, and pub­lished books and mag­a­zines since 1987; and has designed and pub­lished web­sites since 1995. He is work­ing on becom­ing a cer­ti­fied genealogist.

Jordan has spo­ken at sev­eral regional, statewide, and national con­fer­ences, includ­ing the 2009, 2011-2017, and 2022 National Genealogical Society Family History Conferences and the 2015–2017 FGS Conferences. A profile of him appeared in the June 2010 Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly magazine. He served as the President of the National Genealogical Society and on the board of directors of the Association for Intelligent Information Management, formerly the Association for Information and Image Management. He serves on the board of directors of the New Mexico Genealogical Society and is a past President and current secretary of the New Mexico Book Association. He and his wife run Coyote Arts, a literary publishing company in Albuquerque, New Mexico.