Who I am
Rooted in curiosity.
I am completely hooked on uncovering the past, the kind of details hidden in letters, census returns and asylum case notes. What began as a personal project over 25 years ago grew into a real 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 the 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.
Those stories aren’t rare. They’re just unread.
I want to get to know you and the family we’re researching together. There’s something special about giving roots to people who didn’t know they had them.
Credentials & Standards
I hold the Family History Skills and Strategies Intermediate Certificate, awarded jointly by Pharos and the Society of Genealogists, and I’m currently studying towards the Advanced Certificate. All my research follows the Society of Genealogists’ standards of good practice, carried out with thoroughness, accuracy and discretion.
“Archive documents, the kind of records that turn a name into a person.”