Rebecca Page M.L.S.
Personalized research, family trees & charts, DNA consulting, and unknown parentage searches.
Turn the Page Genealogy
Owner and Sole Proprietor
513-GEN-DNA6
Cincinnati, Ohio
United States
Family History Research
- DNA
- Document Retrieval / Record Agent
- Family History Research
- Tutor / Coach
DNA
- Adoption / Unknown Parentage
- Tutor / Coach
NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING CLIENTS.
Helping to preserve the past for the future!
Turn the Page Genealogy specializes in personalized research, family trees & charts, DNA consulting, and unknown parentage searches.
Turn the Page Genealogy is so named because my surname is Page, because I spent 22.5 years serving as a public librarian, because my clients will be turning the pages delving into their own family histories, and because I'm turning the page on a new chapter of my life...
I am a librarian and professional genealogist native to Cincinnati, Ohio, who loves figuring out how everyone in a family tree fits together in the life-sized jigsaw puzzle. I began my journey down the rabbit hole that is genealogy by researching all lines of my family and my husband’s family—all of our son’s family—a delightful mixture of eastern, central, and western European ancestry.
My Ashkenazi Jewish roots stem from Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Israel, Australia, Canada, New York, Connecticut, California, and Michigan. My husband’s roots are German Catholic immigrants who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio and northern Kentucky throughout the 19th century; German, Dutch, and Swedish immigrants who settled in the 1600s in New Amsterdam (now New York) and what became Pennsylvania, some of whom made their way down to what is now Tennessee and then up into Kentucky; and British and Scottish immigrants who settled in the 1600s and 1700s in the southern colonies of the future United States, migrating through Virginia, North Carolina, northwestern Tennessee, and southwestern Kentucky, while some continued west to Texas.
I am experienced in using a combination of DNA analysis and traditional documentary research to solve unknown and misattributed parentage cases, both in my extended family tree and for those outside of my family. These include an Appalachian family in southeastern Kentucky with a large amount of endogamy, a family scattered throughout Texas and Oklahoma, and a family in New York and Connecticut with Ashkenazi Jewish roots in Galicia (part of modern-day Ukraine).
I holds a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Cincinnati, studied for six weeks at I.T.E.S.M., Campus Querétaro, Qro., México, was consistently on the Dean’s List, was a member of Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish National Honorary, and graduated from the University Honors Scholars Program. I also completed 4.5 years out of 5 toward a B.S. in Elementary Education, including working toward a master’s degree in Elementary Education and teaching inner city 4th-6th graders. While taking 19-25 hours of coursework every trimester, I also made time to sing in the UC Men's and Women's Choruses.
I also earned an M.L.S. (Master of Library Science) from Kent State University. I served as a public librarian for over 22 years—18 years as a Children’s and Youth Services Librarian, working with children from birth through high school and their parents, teachers, and caregivers, and over 4 years as a Metadata Librarian, working with local and regional historical and archival materials, making them digitally accessible to the public. I taught free basic computer classes to adults of all backgrounds, through the Connect Ohio program. I also completed a 6-week Basics of Archives online course through the American Association for State and Local History. Both in my personal and professional life, I have always tried to help preserve the past for the future.
I have completed my Certificate in Genealogical Research through Boston University’s Center for Professional Education. This rigorous 15-week, graduate-level, non-credit course is “taught by exceptional Boston University instructors, world-renowned for their expertise and contributions to the field. The team includes Certified Genealogists and members of the American Society of Genealogists. Each faculty member teaches a different topic, exposing students to the entire team.”
I maintain a membership in numerous genealogical societies and organizations throughout the world, including NGS, OGS (lifetime member), HCGS (lifetime member), KYGS, PGHJGS, SCJGS, NEIJGS, JGST, MACSE, Friends of Budapest Jewish Cemetery, and IGRA, and am an active member in many of them. I serve on the Editorial Committee as a volunteer proofreader of the award-winning quarterly journal, The Tracer, for the Hamilton County Genealogical Society. I serve as the Administrative Assistant for three Front Porch Talks monthly virtual meetings for the Kentucky Genealogical Society (Kentucky Ancestors Pre-1850, Kentucky Scots-Irish Ancestors, and All Things DNA). I also subscribe to many research databases, including JewishGen, Gesher Galicia, and JRI Poland, and regularly continue my genealogical education by attending webinars and local, state-wide, national, and international conferences.
Both in my many years serving the public as a librarian and through my genealogical research, I have shown a passion for connecting people with the information they seek…
Helping to preserve the past for the future!
Turn the Page Genealogy specializes in personalized research, family trees & charts, DNA consulting, and unknown parentage searches.
Turn the Page Genealogy is so named because my surname is Page, because I spent 22.5 years serving as a public librarian, because my clients will be turning the pages delving into their own family histories, and because I'm turning the page on a new chapter of my life...
I am a librarian and professional genealogist native to Cincinnati, Ohio, who loves figuring out how everyone in a family tree fits together in the life-sized jigsaw puzzle. I began my journey down the rabbit hole that is genealogy by researching all lines of my family and my husband’s family—all of our son’s family—a delightful mixture of eastern, central, and western European ancestry.
My Ashkenazi Jewish roots stem from Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Israel, Australia, Canada, New York, Connecticut, California, and Michigan. My husband’s roots are German Catholic immigrants who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio and northern Kentucky throughout the 19th century; German, Dutch, and Swedish immigrants who settled in the 1600s in New Amsterdam (now New York) and what became Pennsylvania, some of whom made their way down to what is now Tennessee and then up into Kentucky; and British and Scottish immigrants who settled in the 1600s and 1700s in the southern colonies of the future United States, migrating through Virginia, North Carolina, northwestern Tennessee, and southwestern Kentucky, while some continued west to Texas.
I am experienced in using a combination of DNA analysis and traditional documentary research to solve unknown and misattributed parentage cases, both in my extended family tree and for those outside of my family. These include an Appalachian family in southeastern Kentucky with a large amount of endogamy, a family scattered throughout Texas and Oklahoma, and a family in New York and Connecticut with Ashkenazi Jewish roots in Galicia (part of modern-day Ukraine).
I holds a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Cincinnati, studied for six weeks at I.T.E.S.M., Campus Querétaro, Qro., México, was consistently on the Dean’s List, was a member of Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish National Honorary, and graduated from the University Honors Scholars Program. I also completed 4.5 years out of 5 toward a B.S. in Elementary Education, including working toward a master’s degree in Elementary Education and teaching inner city 4th-6th graders. While taking 19-25 hours of coursework every trimester, I also made time to sing in the UC Men's and Women's Choruses.
I also earned an M.L.S. (Master of Library Science) from Kent State University. I served as a public librarian for over 22 years—18 years as a Children’s and Youth Services Librarian, working with children from birth through high school and their parents, teachers, and caregivers, and over 4 years as a Metadata Librarian, working with local and regional historical and archival materials, making them digitally accessible to the public. I taught free basic computer classes to adults of all backgrounds, through the Connect Ohio program. I also completed a 6-week Basics of Archives online course through the American Association for State and Local History. Both in my personal and professional life, I have always tried to help preserve the past for the future.
I have completed my Certificate in Genealogical Research through Boston University’s Center for Professional Education. This rigorous 15-week, graduate-level, non-credit course is “taught by exceptional Boston University instructors, world-renowned for their expertise and contributions to the field. The team includes Certified Genealogists and members of the American Society of Genealogists. Each faculty member teaches a different topic, exposing students to the entire team.”
I maintain a membership in numerous genealogical societies and organizations throughout the world, including NGS, OGS (lifetime member), HCGS (lifetime member), KYGS, PGHJGS, SCJGS, NEIJGS, JGST, MACSE, Friends of Budapest Jewish Cemetery, and IGRA, and am an active member in many of them. I serve on the Editorial Committee as a volunteer proofreader of the award-winning quarterly journal, The Tracer, for the Hamilton County Genealogical Society. I serve as the Administrative Assistant for three Front Porch Talks monthly virtual meetings for the Kentucky Genealogical Society (Kentucky Ancestors Pre-1850, Kentucky Scots-Irish Ancestors, and All Things DNA). I also subscribe to many research databases, including JewishGen, Gesher Galicia, and JRI Poland, and regularly continue my genealogical education by attending webinars and local, state-wide, national, and international conferences.
Both in my many years serving the public as a librarian and through my genealogical research, I have shown a passion for connecting people with the information they seek…
- “My family members and I all decided to test our DNA on a lark for the holidays and I need help understanding my test results. Can you help?”
- “Where were my great-grandparents born?”
- “I just discovered that my biological father is not the wonderful man who raised me. Can you help me find answers?”
- “I just inherited all of this family tree information from my late relative and need help making sense of it all."
- “I’d love to build a family tree, but don’t know how to begin. Can you help?
Testimonials
Rebecca is amazing! With what I thought was little to go on in my family tree, she managed to find over 700 people and connected me with family that I didn't even know I have! She helped me locate my biological father's family, whom I have now met. She is diligent and works hard and, because she took the time to do the searching, I have a whole new family. Thank you, Rebecca!
~ Jennifer Palumbo
Rebecca is knowledgeable and pleasant to work with, and she cares about your family. I felt overwhelmed with all the information. She helped find my biological father, which had been very difficult to do.
~ Sherry Russell
There was a significant ancestral member of our family for whom my father had been looking with dogged enthusiasm since the late 1970s. When my father died, I felt strongly that the mystery person in our family should be found. Given my father's expertise, which I could not match, I contracted with Rebecca to help me. What I thought would take a couple of months took ten, yet I cannot thank Rebecca enough for being my guide in the long and convoluted process that we went through in finding this unknown ancestor. I am so grateful to have come to know and work with Rebecca. I learned to appreciate her expertise and quiet advice, which was so instrumental in pointing me in different directions (as I was emotionally wrapped up in the search). I am especially thankful for Rebecca's "never saying never," in that when I was ready to give up, she was not. Rebecca is an amazing genealogist. My ancestor is found, and so is peace.
~ LNStreeter
Rebecca is great to work with and does such an excellent job. I'm extremely satisfied with the family tree, as well as all of the additional information about my ancestors that I now have. I highly recommend her to be your ancestry expert.
~ Michelle TePastte
Rebecca is amazing! With what I thought was little to go on in my family tree, she managed to find over 700 people and connected me with family that I didn't even know I have! She helped me locate my biological father's family, whom I have now met. She is diligent and works hard and, because she took the time to do the searching, I have a whole new family. Thank you, Rebecca!
~ Jennifer Palumbo
Rebecca is knowledgeable and pleasant to work with, and she cares about your family. I felt overwhelmed with all the information. She helped find my biological father, which had been very difficult to do.
~ Sherry Russell
There was a significant ancestral member of our family for whom my father had been looking with dogged enthusiasm since the late 1970s. When my father died, I felt strongly that the mystery person in our family should be found. Given my father's expertise, which I could not match, I contracted with Rebecca to help me. What I thought would take a couple of months took ten, yet I cannot thank Rebecca enough for being my guide in the long and convoluted process that we went through in finding this unknown ancestor. I am so grateful to have come to know and work with Rebecca. I learned to appreciate her expertise and quiet advice, which was so instrumental in pointing me in different directions (as I was emotionally wrapped up in the search). I am especially thankful for Rebecca's "never saying never," in that when I was ready to give up, she was not. Rebecca is an amazing genealogist. My ancestor is found, and so is peace.
~ LNStreeter
Rebecca is great to work with and does such an excellent job. I'm extremely satisfied with the family tree, as well as all of the additional information about my ancestors that I now have. I highly recommend her to be your ancestry expert.
~ Michelle TePastte
Additional specialities or search keywords
Ashkenazi Jewish, German, Catholic, Appalachian, Adoption, Adoptee, Unknown Parent
Ashkenazi Jewish, German, Catholic, Appalachian, Adoption, Adoptee, Unknown Parent
Repositories
I am able and willing to travel to repositories in the following locations (repositories further away are possible, as well):
The following counties in southwestern Ohio:
I am able and willing to travel to repositories in the following locations (repositories further away are possible, as well):
The following counties in southwestern Ohio:
- Adams
- Brown
- Butler
- Clermont
- Greene
- Hamilton
- Montgomery
- Preble
- Warren
- Dearborn
- Fayette
- Franklin
- Ohio
- Ripley
- Switzerland
- Union
- Wayne
- Boone
- Campbell
- Kenton
Research Time Periods
- 21st Century
- 20th Century
- 19th Century
Languages
English, Spanish, some French, some Russian
English, Spanish, some French, some Russian
Certificates
Certificate in Genealogical Research, Boston University's Center for Professional Education, 2021
AppGen (Applied Genealogy Institute) Course, Spring 2024:
Bagging A Live One—Finding Living People
Hamilton County (Ohio) Genealogical Society, Certificate of Appreciation,
10 October 2024
Editorial Committee, Proofreader of the Award-Winning Quarterly Journal,
The Tracer
Certificate in Genealogical Research, Boston University's Center for Professional Education, 2021
AppGen (Applied Genealogy Institute) Course, Spring 2024:
Bagging A Live One—Finding Living People
Hamilton County (Ohio) Genealogical Society, Certificate of Appreciation,
10 October 2024
Editorial Committee, Proofreader of the Award-Winning Quarterly Journal,
The Tracer
Affiliations
- National Genealogical Society (NGS)
- Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS)
- Hamilton County (Ohio) Genealogical Society (HCGS)
- Kentucky Genealogical Society (KYGS)
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Pittsburgh (JGS of Pittsburgh)
- Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society (SCJGS)
- Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society (NEIJGS)
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto (JGST)
- MACSE (Hungarian Society for Family History Research)
- Friends of Budapest Jewish Cemetery
- Israel Genealogical Research Association (IGRA)
Degrees
- M.L.S. (Master of Library Science, Kent State University, specializing in Children's and Young Adult Services)
- B.A. (University of Cincinnati, Spanish Language and Literature)