Jacqulyn's love for research began with her curiosity about her Cape Verdean lineage. She was fascinated by the culture and the island's integral role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Her curiosity quickly turned into a passion to identify her ancestors and understand their stories. Her journey to identify her ancestors, as for many African descendants, proved challenging. It led her to focus her research efforts on pre-civil war records in the Deep South and using autosomal DNA to expand … [Read more...]
Meet LaDonna, Project Manager for Legacy Tree Genealogists
LaDonna Garner’s venture into family history began with a junior high assignment on her family origins that only raised more questions than answers. With few elders available for advice, the quest for solving the family mysteries set the course for a lifetime of research, brick walls, and interesting discoveries. Decades later, through college, career changes, and raising a family, her genealogy hobby was always present. Today, that hobby has evolved into a career she greatly enjoys — helping … [Read more...]
Meet Carol, Project Manager for Legacy Tree Genealogists
Meet Carol, one of Legacy Tree Genealogists talented project managers! Genealogy has been a passion of Carol Genung’s for a long time. The genealogy bug first bit her when she was in junior high school and her dad’s aunt shared copies of the family tree she had researched. Carol diligently added the branches that she could at the time. Her passion was reignited a number of years later when she and her husband visited his aunt who had the family bible with entries back to the late 1800s. Carol … [Read more...]
Meet Colleen, Project Manager for Legacy Tree Genealogists
Meet Colleen, one of Legacy Tree Genealogists talented project managers! Ever since Colleen Stutz was a little girl, she has had a love for Family History and Genealogy. Even as a child at Thanksgiving with extended family, she was the only one who could keep the relationships straight and explain how everyone was related to each other. In her own Family History research, Colleen has solved several brick walls that seemed impossible. Her ancestors came from Germany, Norway, Sweden, England, … [Read more...]
Meet Rachel, Project Manager for Legacy Tree Genealogists
Meet Rachel, one of Legacy Tree Genealogists talented project managers! Rachel Derenthal comes to Legacy Tree Genealogists with a background in business, accounting, and family history research. She originally obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Middle East Studies and Arabic from Brigham Young University however her post graduate jobs pushed her towards the field of business and accounting. In 2016 she decided to switch career paths and enrolled in the Family History Research program at Brigham … [Read more...]