(Above:  The Day It All Began – My journey through Edinburgh, Scotland, in the search of my maternal ancestors)

Have you ever wondered where your family comes from?  Have you ever wanted to know more about your grandmother, or about that mysterious looking great uncle in that old family photo?  

Are you stuck in your own research?  Do you need help tracing your ancestry?

I provide a professional research service which aims to uncover your family’s ancestral lines and then showcase these in a stunning Ancestor Wall Chart, while also providing you with expertly custom made folders, containing all the documents of your Family History.

The majority of my clients are people who do not have the time to do their own research and build their family genealogy.  Others have already completed a part of their family tree and are seeking professional help to go further back in time.

My prices are reasonable and I offer payment plans to suit pensioners, low income earners, or any one who wants to undertake a Full Family History Project yet doesn’t have the funds up front to do so.

Please see my other pages for specific information about project fees and time frames.

A CONVICT RESEARCH PROJECT – August 2025 onwards

This month I am embarking on some interseting and enjoyable research; I’ll be delving into the lives of some of my clients’ convict origins.  We plan to research, confirm/deny already known connections, source the records, and write the stories to share here on my website, and also on the Convict Records database online.  Many of the stories we read are either scant, unsourced, incorrect, or simply missing.  Our aim with this ongoing project is to uncover the true origins and share these amazing, sad, industrious and sometimes very short convict lives with the world.  As Australia has some of the best genealogical records, especially during the convict era, we hope to paint a vivid picture of these important individuals from Austrlian history.

A SPECIAL REUNION – One of my favourite stories (from 2018)

Genealogy encompasses so much, and one of my favourite projects, if you can call it that, was when I had the amazing pleasure of helping a young man named Andre in his search for a woman named Vivienne – the daughter of a violin maker named Nelson Hardy Oliver.  In 1918, the same year that Vivienne was born, Nelson made his one and only cello.  As it happens, Andre was now the owner this unique instrument and wanted to find Vivienne, (or one of her descendants), so that he could play his treasured cello, made so long ago by her father Nelson.  Well – after some weeks of looking for a “living person” – not your average project might I say – we were both stunned and amazed to find out that Vivienne was actually still alive at the age of 99!  After hearing Andre’s story, she was very eager to once again hold the cello her father had made so many years ago.  Genealogy takes me on so many journeys; all of them emotive and unforgettable in their own right.  I hope one day I can uncover your story and the reasons you came to be where you are today.