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Rachel Whiting, PhD, is a professional genealogist based in southwestern Ontario, Canada. She specializes in immigrant communities from Eastern Europe (Germany, Poland, and the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) in Canada and the Midwest United States. She is currently pursuing accreditation in the "Germany East" region through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen).

Rachel joined Legacy Tree Genealogists as an Advanced Researcher in 2023. In this role, she has also contributed to numerous Italian Dual Citizenship applications. Her work focuses primarily on immigrants departing from Naples and Palermo.

As a genealogist at Legacy Tree Genealogists, we are celebrating 20 years of genealogy research. Watch here to learn more about our process and how we have helped hundreds of clients find their ancestors.
 

Geographic Specialities

• Canada: All Provinces.
• United States: Immigrant Communities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
• Eastern Europe: Germany, Poland, and regions of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire (i.e., Slovakia, Hungary, Romania).

Lectures
Rachel lectures on genealogical and property research in Ontario and Quebec, as well as strategies for locating ancestral towns in Eastern Europe and Italy.

For more information and her speaking schedule, please contact by email.
 

Repositories

• Local repositories in southwestern Ontario, Canada.

Research Time Periods

• 21st Century
• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century

Languages

• English, German, Latin.
• Genealogical proficiency in Polish, Slovakian and Hungarian.