Currently accepting clients for...

• Family History Research
• Speaking / Presenting
• Writing /Publishing

Got a family mystery? I'm interested! I do U.S. genealogical research and writing to solve family history questions and work through genealogical brick walls. I work with clients to preserve their family stories through documentation and publication. My work includes pre-1850 census research, women ancestors, building neighborhoods of connected people. Articles include,

♦ “Five Tips to Write as You Research,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News (2024).
♦ “Kate (Blundy) Moore’s Boarding House in Venice, California,” California Genealogical Society, The California Nugget (2024).
♦ “Elizabeth (Talley) Pryor (1825-1865) – A Descendant of The Talley Family in Sumner County, Tennessee,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ (2024).
♦ “A Letter from Avery M. Keesee to Austin L. Green, 1848,” Virginia Genealogical Society, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy (2024).
♦ “Becoming Holsey: The South Carolina Origins of the Holsey Family of Baltimore,” Maryland Genealogical Society Journal (2024).
♦ “Elizabeth (Chegwidden) Pryor of Wendron: The Lawful Wife,” Cornwall Family History Society (U.K.), 2024.
♦ “Index of Names from ‘Lost’ Virginia Newspapers (1798),” Virginia Genealogical Society, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy (2024).
♦ “The J. Prior in Nashville Penitentiary in 1860 Was Jonathan Pryor (born 1820-1830),” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News (2023).
♦ “Two Locations, One Person: Elizabeth (—?—) Pryor Harris from Campbell County, Virginia to Anderson County, Tennessee in 1830,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, (2023). ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ "Mourning (Thompson) Pryor White (born about 1760): A Witness for Joseph Pryor in Wilson County,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ (2023).
♦ “The Williams Family Who Disappeared from Illinois into Unorganized Territory,” Illinois State Genealogical Society, The Quarterly (2023).
♦ “William C. ‘W. C.’ Gregory (1818-1870): A Court Error Recorded His Death in 1860,” The Tennessee Genealogical Society, Magazine: Ansearchin’ News (2021).

Publications/Media
Book: Board in Venice: Stories of the House, The Landlords, and The Boarders at 3981 Wade Street in Venice California, 2025
Book: Pryor Wives: Stories of Family, Fortune, and Fiasco, 2024
California Genealogical Society Nugget, Fall 2024
Maryland Genealogical Society Journal 64, 2024
Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin' News, frequent contributor, 2021-2025
Virginia Genealogical Society, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, February 2024
Cornwall Family History Society (U.K.), journal, June 2024
Illinois State Genealogical Society, The Quarterly 55 , 2023

Research Time Periods

• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century

Languages
English

Certificates
Boston University, Genealogical Research

Affiliations
Tennessee Genealogical Society, DAR member

Degrees
B.A. from University of California