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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

• Spreading awareness to white audiences about the importance of reparative genealogy and repairing the African American family tree

 

Additional specialities or search keywords
enslavers, reparative, restorative, reparational
Publications/Media
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
Lectures
Reparative Genealogy: Reassembling the Pieces, One Family at a Time
Alumni Master Class Series, Franklin and Marshall College
https://vimeo.com/1080258216
April 29, 2025
Research Time Periods
  • 19th Century
  • 18th Century
  • 17th Century
Languages
French
Affiliations
• Colorado Genealogical Society
• Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GENPA)
• Maryland Genealogical Society
• National Genealogical Society
• North Hills Genealogists of Pittsburgh
• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (PA, CO)
• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (CO)
Degrees
B.A. French Literature