Someone recently asked me, “Who hires a professional genealogist?” The easiest answer is someone like me: my journey to professional...

Today is an anniversary I should have remembered, not just as a fan of the musical, but because I may have a common ancestor with the...

I had every intention of posting something new every month, with the thought I’d focus this space on a mix of personal family history and...

Every family historian runs into one at some point: a brick wall. That impossible ancestor, the one you can’t figure out. Sometimes, it’s...

As I research my family history, my fifth great-grandparents don’t feel so far out of reach. Learning family history brings life to the...

An obituary caught my eye last month. In describing the career of a recently deceased D.C. Superior Court judge, it stated, “At the time,...

When I started this venture, I (maybe unwisely) chose not to use my own name for the business.[1] Anything close to a tree reference was...