Past Projects: Historical and Genealogy Research
Historical
- Project for the BBC: traced a family in MA and NY for a TV series
- Researched the crew from the 1851 America's Cup yacht race
- Historical research in the R.G. Dun Collection at Harvard University for a Professor (R.G. Dun Co. was a 19th C. credit reporting firm, later known as Dun & Bradstreet)
- Historical research on a Boston musician for a Professor
- Provenance of a family heirloom embroidery belonging to a prominent family
originally from Portsmouth, NH
- Historical research relating to King George's War in 1744-1745
- Background historical research for the memoir - In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong
- Saxton family from Troy, NY who owned a Steinway piano in the 1860's, for a client who was refinishing and selling the piano (tracing the piano's ownership)
Genealogy
- Family from upstate New York who migrated to Michigan and Canada
- Family from Greene Co., NY
- Irish family from Fulton Co., NY
- Irish families from Albany Co., Rensselaer Co. and Saratoga Co., NY
- Cemetery photographs - Albany Rural Cemetery, St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
in Hoosick Falls, NY, Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, NY
- Several families with New York and Pennsylvania roots
- Family in Jefferson and Onondaga Co., NY
- Family from Genesee Co., NY with Massachusetts Huguenot ancestors
- Family with roots in Vermont, Canada and Massachusetts
- Family with roots in New York and Canada; also researched branches in Virginia and Ohio
- Family from Steuben and Chemung counties, NY traced back to Westchester Co., NY and New Jersey
- Elusive family from southern Albany County, NY in 1800 with New England roots
- Irish family from Boston to Troy, NY
- Western MA family who migrated to Vermont and upstate New York
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