Professional Background & Memberships
I can help you over those "brick walls" in early Upstate New York. I offer expert analysis of difficult families, research on collateral lines and neighbors, church records, deeds, probates, court records, manuscripts -- whatever it takes to piece a family back together and find their origins! Irish, English, Quaker, German, French Canadian.
- Librarian, MLS Degree from State Univ. at Albany, NY, 1985.
- I have researched many difficult families in upstate New York and traced
roots back to New England, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Canada, Michigan, and other areas.
- Active in genealogy and historical research and writing. See Publications
- Created "Rebecca's Roots: German Genealogy" Rebecca's Roots (my German families)
- Special interests: migration patterns from New England to New York,
social history, Quaker, Irish, German, Huguenot, Palatine, and French Canadian research.
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