Rooted in curiosity.

I am completely hooked on uncovering the past — the kind of details hidden in letters, census records, and long-forgotten documents. What began as a personal project over 25 years ago grew into a genuine love of helping others explore their own family history, something I’ve been doing for private clients for the past 10 years.

What gets me — every single time — is that moment when a person stops being just a name on a document and becomes real. A woman who emigrated from Ireland in the 1840s with nothing but her children and her determination. A man whose occupation changes in every census, as though he was constantly reinventing himself. A family who lived three streets away from each other for generations without ever appearing to acknowledge it.

Every family has those stories. Most of them are just sitting in an archive somewhere, waiting to be discovered.

I’m personally invested in every project I take on. I genuinely want to get to know you and the family we’re researching together — there’s something really special about helping people bring forgotten branches of their family tree back into the light, and giving roots to people who didn’t know they had them.