Family History Research
Research historical records to identify your ancestors, document relationships, and help you make sense of it all.
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Solving Family Mysteries
Family History Research
Every family has a mystery.
Are you searching for an ancestor? Trying to understand the matches from your DNA results? Do you have a question about your family history that has gone unanswered for years? Mystery to Memory can help you find the answers you are looking for.
More than names and dates
Family history is about people.
Family history records give names, dates, places, and relationships. Using reasonably exhaustive research, I help you see how those details shape your family tree. At Mystery to Memory, I help you understand how each record connects all of your ancestors.
Mystery to Memory's mission is to connect people with the ancestors who helped shape their lives,
uncover the stories that time has hidden, and preserve those stories for future generations.
How I can help
Research built around your question
DNA & Unknown Parent Research
Analyze your DNA matches along with traditional record research to investigate unknown parents and other family connections.
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Locating, reviewing, and interpreting records that may reveal details about the people, places, and events in your family history.
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Do you need a fresh look at solving a difficult family connection? I can make sense of conflicting evidence and solve that mystery.
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Careful research. Clear explanations. Turn that mystery into a memory
Family history can be difficult when the documents are not straightforward. My method is to start with a focused question, compile the evidence, track each document, and provide you with an explanation that makes sense to you.
Whether the answer is not clear or the evidence points in several directions, you should be able to understand how the conclusion was reached.
Evidence first
Results are based on reasonably exhaustive research of all available documents, which are documented along the way.
Your question guides the research
The goal is not to collect records for the sake of collecting them. The research stays focused on what you want to learn.
Findings you can understand
Results are not just a pile of documents. All results include a clear explanation of how each piece of evidence fits together to solve your mystery.
Start with the question
You do not need to know exactly what kind of research you need.
Tell me what you are trying to discover and what you already know. We can figure out the best research approach from there.