I earned my bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and my master’s and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. I taught college for twenty-five years until I decided it was time to pursue another passion: family history research.
I became involved in genealogy about a dozen years ago. At first, I focused on my own family’s stories, but gradually began doing genealogy for friends. I found this work so rewarding that I eventually realized I would like to turn it into a profession. Thus, I founded “Find Your Family: Riley Genealogy Service.”
Now, I want to help you find your own family, to discover where your people came from, and to understand the diverse paths their lives took. I have seen how immensely rewarding this can be as people learn, for the first time, the names and dates and places of their ancestors, and even better, personal details about their lives and loves, their challenges and their accomplishments.
