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Our professional genealogists are members of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Mid-Atlantic chapter of APG, and adhere to the APG Code of Ethics. Those who accept clients charge fees for their services. When you  contact one of our members, they will respond with information about his/her services and fees. Neither APG nor the Mid-Atlantic chapter of APG assumes responsibility for research work contracted through this listing.

CG®, CGL®, and CGG℠ are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists®, used under license. AG® and AGL℠ are credentials awarded by ICAPGen®, the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists.
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Linda Templer Alexander
Linda Templer Alexander LLC
[email protected]
585-721-6311​
Specialties: Western New York, concentrating on Monroe, Steuben, Yates and Ontario counties

Accepts Clients? No
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Kelly Barbano-Bodami
Ancestry ProGenealogists
[email protected]
Specialties: Italian research & citizenship, modern NYC/NYS vital records, late 19th/20th century immigration/naturalization
Accepts  Clients? Yes
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Katy Bodenhorn Barnes
Katy Bodenhorn Genealogy Research
[email protected]
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Milissa Boyer Kafes
Farmers Mills Books
[email protected]
845-745-0807​
Specialties: New York, pre-20th century

Accepts Clients? Yes
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Trish Buben
Stonycreek Genealogy
[email protected]
410-504-2561
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Specialties: Western Pennsylvania, mainly Cambria, Somerset and Bedford counties
Accepts  Clients? Yes
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Kimberly FB Bucklaw
Next Generation History​
[email protected]
267-432-2191
Specialties: PA/DE/MD, DNA, FIGG, African American, land
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Ed Byrnes
FIGG Pro​
[email protected]
484-808-2045
Specialties: Forensic investigative genetic genealogy
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Paul J. Campbell-Trimbur
Stone Barn Research
422 Suismon St.,
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

[email protected]
610-241-6183
Specialties: House histories, genealogy, Western Pennsylvania, DNA
Accepts Clients? Yes
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​​Michelle Tucker Chubenko AG AGL
Michelle Chubenko, Genealogist
732-969-2652
[email protected]
Specialties: Immigration research to Mid-Atlantic states from Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary); New Jersey & New York City research; genealogical lecturing
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Nicole Cohn
Nicole Cohn Genealogy Research and Consulting
[email protected]​
253-244-8422

Specialties: Generalist
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Laura ​Cubbage-Draper
​LCD Genealogy Services
[email protected]
201-841-0823

Specialties: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York; genealogical lecturing
Accepts Clients? No
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Jody Cursio
Modern Ancestrix
info@modernancestrix.com
480-231-7599
Specialties: DNA, adoption/ unattributed parentage, family history research, Italy, DAR lineage society
Accepts Clients? No
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Erica Cousins Curtis
First Cousins Genealogy
[email protected]​
917-733-1293​

Specialties: Pennsylvania with a focus on Western Pennsylvania, DNA, forensic genealogy
Accepts Clients? Yes
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​John M. Daskalakis
Rizes Hellenic Genealogy Research
[email protected]
315-985-4985
Specialties: Greek American genealogy, Greek genealogy, Greek dual citizenship assistance, ancestral home photography, translation services, DNA test interpretation, free one-hour consultation
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Donna L. Diaz
​Cranes Foot Chart
[email protected]​
Specialties: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Accepts  Clients? Yes
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Lynn Duffy
​Lighthouse Counseling & Consulting Services
[email protected]
410-957-4200

Specialties: Consulting Services
Accepts  Clients? Yes
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​Anna Dutfield
[email protected]
416-528-4789
38 Bernick Road, Willowdale, ON, Canada, M2H 1E4

Specialties: Ontario and Quebec research, French (France) research, Irish research, UK research
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Susan E. Evans
​Family Tales & Trails
[email protected]
Specialties: Lineage societies, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Quaker, Welsh Society of Philadelphia, genealogist
Accepts Clients: Yes
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Alec Ferretti
The Ancestor Archivist
[email protected]
Specialties: Italian dual citizenship, 20th century immigration, New York City
Accepts Clients: Yes
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Lori Flynn
​Genealogy With Lori
[email protected]​
610-327-4361​
​Specialties: Genealogy and genetic genealogy 
Accepts Clients:  Yes
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Sarah Dobson Fullem
[email protected]
Specialties: Genetic genealogy, DNA, c
onsultation on or completion of genetic genealogy problems
Accepts Clients? No
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Michael R. Gallagher
[email protected]
302-409-0153
Education: BA in Political Science from University of Delaware
Specialties: Local research in Delaware & Southeastern Pennsylvania, remote/online research for other areas of USA, Western European immigrant research
Accepts Clients: Yes
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Hope S. Glidden
Rooty Branches Genealogy Services
[email protected]​
Lancaster, PA
​717-940-3083
Specialties: Forensic genealogy - heir searches and real estate title issues; south-central PA; North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
Accepts Clients: Yes
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Amanda Gonzalez CG
[email protected]
Specialties: Delaware
Accepts Clients? No

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Laurel Haas
Greene Roots LLC
[email protected]
541-598-5426​

Specialties: Upper south region (Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky), pre 1850s
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Debbie Hadley
Bring Out Yer Dead
[email protected]
Specialties: NJ, NY, and PA; Family history, immigration, and family business research; record retrievals from NJ State Archives and other central NJ repositories
Accepts Clients: Yes
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Julie Hamilton
Tenacity DNA
Germantown MD

[email protected]
301-330-9353

Specialties: Genealogical and family history research, forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG), investigative genetic genealogy (IGG)
Accepts Clients: Yes
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Laura Hennessee
KindredFound
[email protected]
240-409-1674

Specialties: Forensic genealogy: heirs for probate, title, military repatriation, genetic research
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Eva Holmes CG AG
90 Arcadia St., Portland, ME 04103
www.evaholmes.com

[email protected]
207-899-9430
Specialties: Maine, New England, Atlantic Canada, Loyalists.
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Kate Penney Howard
Kate Penney Howard
[email protected]
Specialties: Genetic genealogy, including identifying grandparents and more distant relatives, specializing in cases where parents may be closely related or endogamy is a factor. Traditional research includes colonial Connecticut & Massachusetts, central New York, migrations from the northeast to the Great Lakes states, migrations from the South to industrial areas.
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Jenny Rizzo Irwin, CG AG
Generations Revealed LLC
[email protected]
518-928-9237
Specialties: Traditional family history research and forensic research for probate, unknown heirs, and real estate cases.
Geographic areas: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, & Italy

Accepts Clients? Yes
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Nina Ivanichvili
All Language Alliance Inc.
[email protected]
303-470-9555
Specialties: Foreign heir search; dual citizenship; probate research; legal interpreters and certified legal, archival, genealogical document translation services from and into Polish, Turkish, Slovak, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Greek, Amharic, Mongolian, Czech, Armenian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Thai, Danish, Russian, Arabic, Romanian, Lithuanian, German, Ottoman, French, Swedish, Italian. Transcription and translation of historical documents in old cursive handwriting.
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Kris Jackson
Lineage & Legacy LLC
Maryland

[email protected] 
443-562-8618
Specialties: Generational trauma
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Kristin A. Kaercher
Kaercher Genealogy
437 E. Franklin St.
Media, PA 19063

[email protected]
302-242-1755
Specialties: Mid-Atlantic, DNA
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Claire E. Keenan
​Bloodlines Genealogical Research Services
327 Harding Ave.,
​Milmont Park, PA 19033
[email protected]
​609-933-6000
Specialties: U.S., Irish research from mid-1800s; dual citizenship; copyright; lectures

​Accepts Clients? Yes
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Alaine Keisling
Keisling Research

Drexel Hill PA
[email protected]
225-284-7952

Specialties:  Mid-Atlantic research, especially Northeast Pennsylvania (NEPA) and the NEPA diaspora
Repositories: Pa. State Archives and Library; courthouses in Dauphin, Delaware, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Philadelphia, Schuylkill and other Pennsylvania counties

Accepts Clients?  Yes
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Rebecca Whitman Koford CG CGL
Rebecca Whitman Koford Genealogical Research LLC
Mount Airy, Maryland​
[email protected]
Specialties:  National Archives DC, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New York, land records & mapping
Accepts Clients?  No
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Barbara C. Lagasse
Bowling Green, Va.
[email protected]
757-642-7455
Specialties: Virginia ancestral research utilizing both online and in-person resources in libraries, historical societies, and counties across Virginia and North Carolina, as well as Washington, D.C. (DAR Library, NARA).
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Joan Manierre Lowry
New Jersey Heirs and Ancestors llc
Woodbridge, NJ

[email protected]
Specialties:  New Jersey, 20th and 21st century urban research, probate/missing heir research, and due diligence
Accepts Clients?  Yes
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Deborah A. Mayes
Deborah A. Carder Mayes Genealogy & Family History
[email protected]
419-695-5805
Specialties: Speaking, writing, research
Accepts Clients? No
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Angela Packer McGhie
McGhie Family History
[email protected]
Specialties: Genealogy education, federal land records
Accepts Clients? No
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Adrianne McQuillan
Footprints Genealogy & Research LLC
[email protected]
Specialties: Forensic genealogy
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Katie Rebecca Merkley
Katie Rebecca Garner Genealogy LLC
385-472-7979
[email protected]
Specialties: U.S. Mid-Atlantic
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Valerie A. Metzler
Valerie Metzler Archivist
114 Ruskin Drive, Altoona
814-932-1740
[email protected]
Specialties: Anabaptist, Western Pennsylvania
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Jayme Millsap Stone
Our Family Bones
Conway, Arkansas
501-472-1820
[email protected]
Specialties: American south
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Pamela A. Moore
Backstories
[email protected]
202-743-2042
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10432 Balls Ford Road, Suite 300, Manassas, VA 20136​

Specialties: Traditional, Genetic and Forensic Genealogy
​Accepts Clients? Yes
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Christine Murphy
Murphy Genealogy Research
​[email protected]
973-768-2815
Specialties: pre-1850 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, lineage research, Irish immigrants
Accepts Clients? No
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Elizabeth ​Murray Vargas
Legacy Quest Genealogy
[email protected]
305-726-6813
Specialties: U.S. Mid-Atlantic states, Spain, Italy, and Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly Cuba.
Specialties: Genealogy research, dual citizenship application preparation, Spanish language translations, international researchers in all countries of expertise. 
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Suzanne Nurnberg
[email protected]
Specialties:  research for legal purposes such as settling estates and clearing title to real estates, general southern New Jersey research, research on families moving back and forth between New Jersey and Philadelphia
Accepts Clients: Y
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​Suzanne Parker
[email protected]
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Kaitlyn Pauley 
Pauley Genealogical Research LLC
[email protected]
Specialties:  Mid-Atlantic, West Virginia, Native American, Land Records
Accepts Clients? Yes
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​Erin Pittman 
Dodona Genealogy
[email protected]
443-534-9382

Specialties: Maryland (especially Anne Arundel and Charles counties, but comfortable with all), and Virginia (especially Botetourt and Amherst, but comfortable with all) genealogy
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Michael S. Ramage JD CG 
ForensicGenealogist.Pro
720 Argyle Rd, Wynnewood PA 19196
[email protected]
484-437-8827
Specialties:  Forensic genealogy, writing and speaking.
Accepts Clients? No
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J.R. Randall
[email protected]
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Lori Donovan Roberts
The Time Travel Advisor
[email protected]
727-396-2344

Specialties: Ireland, UK, Northeast US, Pennsylvania, Florida, DAR/SAR
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Joseph Roby
Enslaved at Oakley & Beyond Project​
[email protected]
Specialties: Enslaved persons and enslavers in Virginia and other Mid-Atlantic states
Accepts Clients? No
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Mary Rogers
Past Portraits
Purcellville, VA 20132

[email protected]
301-471-1225​

Specialties: Genealogy and family history research
Accepts Clients? Yes
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​Joanna Tiger
Ourchives.co
[email protected]
Specialties: Ashkenazi Jewish, DNA match analysis
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Kate Townsend CG
Family History Investigations LLC
Pittsburgh, PA

kate@familyhistory
investigations.com

412-212-6827

Specialties: Pennsylvania with a focus on the Greater Pittsburgh area as well as court records, immigration, naturalization and genealogical lectures.
Accepts Clients? Yes
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Rich Venezia
Rich Roots Genealogy
[email protected]
412-339-0602
Specialties: 
20th-century immigrant ancestors, especially in underutilized record sources and federal records; dual citizenship applications for Italy and Ireland. Other main areas of focus include Italian, Irish, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New Jersey research.
Accepts Clients? Yes

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Franchesca Werden
Breakthrough Genealogy
[email protected]
310-403-5284
Specialties: Italian research & dual citizenship, immigration, New York City research, probate, missing heirs, chain of title, forensic genealogy
Accepting Clients: Yes
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Deborah White Hershey
Generations Remembered
4535 London Ave, Elizabethtown PA 17022
[email protected]
717-367-7610
Specialties: Central and Eastern PA; lineage societies
Accepting Clients: No
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Scott Wilds
Scott Wilds
[email protected]
Specialties: U.S. South, colonial, African American, methodology​
Accepting Clients: No
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Valerie N. Williams
Family Links You Genealogy 
P.O. Box 31, Oreland, PA 19075-0031
[email protected]
215-987-1701
Specialties:  Family tree documentation, headstone cleaning and cemetery records
​Accepts Clients? Yes
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