Currently accepting clients for...

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

Got a genealogical puzzle? I specialize in the ones that require deep archival research and careful evidence analysis — men who shared the same name, mistaken identities preserved in official records, women who vanished from the record when they married, migrations tracked across multiple states, and photographs identified without a name or inscription.

My U.S. genealogical research and writing appears in journals in the field, including the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal, Connecticut Genealogy News, and genealogical journals in California, Tennessee, Illinois, Virginia, and the United Kingdom. I hold a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University and am a First Prize winner of the 2026 Montana Family History Writing Contest.

My two published books — Pryor Wives: Stories of Family, Fortune, and Fiasco (2023) and Board in Venice (2025) — take a narrative approach to genealogical research, recovering the lives of real people from the historical record.

Author of 25+ genealogical articles including...

♦ "Unearthing the Migration of Benjamin Williams from North Carolina to Kentucky," National Genealogical Society, Quarterly, 114 (June 2026), 133-144.
♦ “Edith ‘La Reina’ Rule (1902-1973): Hollywood Psychic and Genealogist,” California Genealogical Society, The California Nugget (2025).
♦ “The Children of William Wood (1783-1852): The Hairdresser of Sheerness, Kent,” Kent Family History Society Journal (U.K) (2025)
♦ “Freeman Modglin or Truman Modglin? One Man, One Name and A Two-Hundred-Year-Old Error, “Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News (2025).
♦ “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.

Publications/Media
National Genealogical Society, Quarterly, Summer 2026
California Genealogical Society, California Nugget, Fall 2024
The Colorado Genealogical Society, Colorado Genealogist, February 2026
Society of Connecticut Genealogists, Connecticut Genealogy News, Winter 2025-20626
Maryland Genealogical Society Journal 64, 2024
Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy and History, Winter 2025
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