Michelle L. Spencer

Michelle L. Spencer began her family history odyssey as a teenager absorbing family stories from cherished friends and relatives. Her professional life blossomed elsewhere taking her from her Missouri roots to Washington, D.C., Germany, and Alabama, stopping at many foreign locales in between. A resident of Alabama for over sixteen years, she has learned to love the backroads and history of Alabama, almost as much as those in her native state.

Michelle has more than twenty-five years of speaking, research, and writing experience. Throughout her career she has spoken extensively on military history and international issues, as well as genealogical methods, tools, and techniques for finding ancestors and telling their stories. She is an avid collector of ephemera and weaving the history of things, places, and events into the stories of those who have gone before us.

Since 2014 she has co-authored more than fifty successful building/property nominations to the National Register of Historic Places conducting building and genealogical research across Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, as well as Germany and the U.K. Her genealogical research for clients including two seasons of the Television Show Who Do You Think You Are? and the PBS Television Show Finding Your Roots. For more information see her website: romamarygrace.com.

Geographic Specialties

AL, GA, KS, MO, South, Midwest, Kansas City,