Lisa is a former Procurement Manager and Data Analyst of over 20+ years, with more than 10 years’ experience in researching Genealogy and Family History in the UK, ireland, Cyprus and Europe. Based near Ely in Cambridgeshire, Lisa has experience in researching for individual clients and also more widely for the village her family come from in Karpasia, Cyprus. She is currently writing a book on the family history of Vathylakas, an occupied village in Cyprus and has ha built up an extensive list of primary and secondary sources to support her Cypriot research despite BMD and other genealogical records not being available in the public domain. Lisa single handedly built a Cypriot Cemetery database which currently sits at around 15,000 individuals researched. 

Lisa researches for all of England, Scotland, Wales, NI and Ireland as a generalist, but also specialises in Cambridgeshire and surrounding counties including Herts, Beds, Suffolk and Norfolk and also in London.  She also has a keen interest in developing her Heraldry skills, including the art of Heraldry in calligraphy and illuminations.

Lisa completed her Masters degree in Genealogical, Paleographic and Heraldic Studies with the University of Strathclyde in the summer of 2025 receiving her MSc with Distinction. Lisa is also studying the IHGS Heraldry Course.

Lisa is a Director at the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG) and the Research Officer for Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Family History Society. She is also a member of AGRA, Association of Professional Genealogists, CUHAGS, Haddenham Local History Group and the Heraldry Society. She works on Local history projects and volunteers to do transcriptions for aforementioned societies as well as in her spare time, taking gravestone photos for requests on www.findagrave.com

Specialist Subject Keywords: Cyprus; London; Cambridgeshire; Scotland; Edinburgh; East Lothian; Heraldry; Calligraphy; UK; The United Kingdom; Hertfordshire; Norfolk; Suffolk; The London Metropolitan Archives; Cambridgeshire Archives; State Archives in Cyprus; Probates; Wills; Transcriptions; Brick walls; Service Records; Military; Newspaper Archives; BMD Records.