I have been fascinated with my family history since I was a little girl. Once we were to be married, my husband and I dug right into Ancestry.com and started building out our trees as a couple. The stories we began to discover were fascinating, but it soon became clear there were lots of dark corners, mysterious unknowns, and too many dead ends. I decided to pursue genealogy more seriously, and recently started down the path of board certification. The work of a genealogist is not just to document the ancestry but also to be a storyteller. So this page is just for that – sharing what I learn in my practice.

The past can seem so dusty and musty – black and white. However, once we start to dig, gather together the stories, and bring what was once alive to the surface again, we begin to feel a connection to our past in a way that roots us. A connection to history in a way we never learned through textbooks. Perhaps gathering these roots into the light we can uncover just why we are where we are, and who we are, here and now.