Currently accepting clients for...

• Family History Research
• Speaking / Presenting

Services

Teacher, presenter, consultant, and researcher

Geographic Specialties

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

Geographic Specialities

• British Isles
• Ireland
• Colonial America

Lectures
General Topics

• Family Tree Feuds: Building Consensus with Confidence
• Gretna Greens: America's Elopement Hotspots
• Hidden Clues in Census Records
• Hook 'em & Reel 'em In
• Johnson, Jones, or James: English Roots in America
• New Leaf Workshop: The Right Tool for the Job 
• Vitally Important: Vital Records and Their Substitutes

Culture & Its Influence on Records

• 18th Century America: Cultural Changes and Their Effect on Records
• 19th Century America: Cultural Changes and Their Effect on Records
• Faith and Founding Fathers: Religion’s Role in America’s Story - NEW
• From Territory to State: Records You Might Miss
• Invisible Enemies: How Disease Shaped America from Independence to Today - NEW
• Saying Goodbye: Our Ancestors' Traditions of Death and Dying
• Tracking Beliefs: Identity in Records

Language Tools & Surname Research

• Certainties and Uncertainties in Spellings
• Language Tools for Genealogists: Google’s Translate and Other Tools
• Language Tools for Genealogists: One-Name Studies 
• Lost in Translation? Finding Ancestors with Language Insights
• Mastering Language Tools for Genealogy
• One Land, Many Voices: Unity and Division Through Language - NEW
• Two Windows into the Past: AI & Google Ngram - NEW
• Who Said What in America: The Effects on Spelling of Language Variations

Migration Research

• American Migration: Pushes, Pulls, and Problems
• Drawn by Opportunity: Migration to the American West
• Homesteading in America: Men & Women, Immigrants & Native-Born
• Crossing the Atlantic: European Migration to America
• U.S. Immigration History: The Tangled Web of Land, Lives, and Legislation
• Westward Migration: Basic Tools for Charting Their Course

Research Methodologies

• Family History Foundations: Records and DNA
• British Genealogy Research: A Practical Guide
• Getting Started with Irish Genealogy
• Mastering Irish Research: Methods for Breaking Through

Women in America

• Bound by Law, Freed by Law: Women and Our Legislative History  - NEW
• Her Genius, Our History: Innovating Women in America - NEW
• Tracing Female Ancestors Through Everyday Records
• Women of Letters: Voices from the Frontier
• Women on the Move: Migration in 19th-Century America

Repositories

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

Research Time Periods

• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century
• 17th Century

Languages
English

Certificates
ProGen

Affiliations

• International Society for 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)