I am a professional genealogist who specializes in writing personal and family histories. While I enjoy research and feel it is very important that we know about our family's history, I think it's just as important that what we know about them is in a readable form, accessible to everyone. Equally valuable is making sure that our own and our parents' memories and stories are preserved for our descendants.

I have a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a certificate in Family History. I have taught piano, voice, and early childhood education. Now my teaching consists of some private piano, family and personal history, as well as an occasional word processing class at a local senior center.

I have written newspaper articles and articles for The Path, the newsletter of the Kindermusik Teachers' Association, for which I was Western Regional Editor. I am the co-author of two books on teaching music to young children and numerous newspaper articles on the same subject.

I am a member of the Association of Personal Historians, Association of Professional Genealogists, Genealogical Speakers' Guild, National Genealogical Society, the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, and the State Historical Society of Missouri.

I was bitten by the genealogy bug when I was twelve years old and I have been researching since then.