Currently accepting clients for...

• DNA
• Family History Research
• Speaking / Presenting

Earlier this year (2024), I was hired for my dream job: working as a genealogist and historian at the Jefferson County History & Art Center in Madison, Indiana--one of the most beautiful and historic towns in the Midwest. I have been working with other researchers to uncover the vastly underestimated role that Madison and Jefferson County residents played working with the national Underground Railroad network 
I was drawn to genealogy when I began researching my great-grandfather Josiah Peter Hackett, who served in the U.S. 17th Infantry during the Civil War. That is my favorite era of American history, but I have also been very involved 

Geographic Specialities
Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia

Publications/Media
Images of America: Trimble County (KY) and Carroll County (KY); Indianapolis Monthly; and others

Lectures
DNA 101/201; Eleutherian College and the Neil's Creek Anti-Slavery Society (Jefferson County, Ind.); Robert Jefferson: A Mulatto Son of Thomas Jefferson; Using AncestryDNA; Beginning Genealogy Research; Investigating the Clues to Date and Identify Vintage Photographs; Underground Railroad in Madison, Indiana; Delia Webster: More than a Petticoat and a Pretty Face

Repositories
Jefferson County (IN) History Center archives and Madison-Jefferson County (IN) Public Library; Kentucky State Archives, Frankfort; Indiana State Library/Historical Society, Indianapolis; University of Kentucky Archives, Lexington; University of Louisville Archives, Louisville; The Filson Historical Society, Louisville

Research Time Periods

• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century

Languages
Can read some Spanish.

Affiliations
AAGHSKY; Indiana Genealogical Society; Historic Eleutherian College; Ohio Genealogical Society; Kentucky Historical Society; Jefferson County (IN) Historical Socciety

Degrees
Bachelor's in English/Creative Writing.