Currently accepting clients for...

• Family History Research
• Speaking / Presenting

Services

Teacher, presenter, consultant, and researcher including personal data collection processing and turnkey online family tree creation or re-creation.

Geographic Specialties

British Isles, including Ireland, and Cumberland Gap migration routes.

Geographic Specialities

• British Isles
• Ireland
• Colonial America

Lectures

• 19th Century America: Cultural Changes and Their Effects on Records
• Beeline to the West: Migration Pulls for Immigrants
• British Research Methodology
• Centuries of Censuses: What Census Instructions Can Teach Us
• Faith of Our Forefathers
• Family Tree Squabbles: How to build consensus when researchers disagree
• Gretna Greens – Where our American ancestors went to marry (and perhaps why)
• Homesteading in America: Men & Women, immigrants & native born
• Hook 'em & Reel 'em In: Getting your DNA matches to respond
• Irish Research Methodology
• Johnson, Jones, or James, English ancestry is all around us
• Leveraging Language Tools for Your Genealogical Brick Wall
• Lutheran Migration: Bound for America
• New Leaf Workshop: The right   tool for the job 
• Saying Goodbye: Our ancestors' traditions of death and dying
• Vitally Important: Vital records and their substitutes
• Who Said What in America: The effects of language and    spelling changes
• Women’s Records: Researching   the world of our female  ancestors 
• Women on the Move: Changing Migration in 19th Century America

Repositories

• Carnegie Library, Boulder, CO
• Colorado State Archives
• Denver Public Library
• Greeley History Museum /  Hazel E. Johnson Research Center (Weld County archives)
• NARA Rocky Mountain Region

Research Time Periods

• 19th Century
• 18th Century
• 17th Century

Languages
English

Certificates
ProGen

Affiliations
~International Society of British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH) ~Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England Family History Society (WISE-FHS) ~Colorado Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists ~Colorado Genealogical Society ~Longmont Genealogical Society ~Weld County Genealogical Society

Degrees
Bachelor of Arts, History and English (Metropolitan State University of Denver)