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Martha S. Runnette

Your partner in tracing enslaver ancestry with care, context, and historically grounded research.
Daylight Genealogy
Founder and Principal Reparative Genealogist
Westminster, Colorado
United States
Currently accepting clients for...
  • Family History Research
  • Speaking / Presenting
Family History Research
  • Family History Research
  • Heraldry / Lineage Societies
  • Tutor / Coach
Speaking/Presenting
  • Available for virtual events



 

Specializing in:

• U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era research, with a focus on uncovering ancestral ties to slavery with historical context and care

• Lineage society applications for DAR, SAR, and other heritage organizations

• Teaching and speaking to white audiences, spreading awareness of reparative genealogy and how they can participate in rebuilding the African American family tree as an individual act of reparation

Publications/Media
Reparative Genealogy: Reassembling the Pieces, One Family at a Time
Martha S. Runnette, alumna
Alumni Master Class Series, Franklin and Marshall College
https://vimeo.com/1080258216
April 29, 2025

Repairing the Knowledge Tree: Making Our Orchards Grow
by author Ellen Snortland, from our January 2024 interview
https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/opinion/repairing-the-knowledge-tree-making-our-orchards-grow/article_8af4d0d4-c5d4-11ee-8200-a7e786b8d622.html
February 8, 2024
Research Time Periods
  • 19th Century
  • 18th Century
  • 17th Century
Languages
French
Affiliations
NSCDA (PA, CO); NSDAR
Degrees
B.A. French Literature