jospencer
10-01-2020, 05:46 AM
50356I am a highly-skilled genealogist with twenty years experience tracing ancestral lines within the US. My method is very effective: by finding primary records (birth, marriage, death, census, land, biographical) I can then produce a written report that substantiates each of your lines. I also focus on correcting inaccurate data found on many family trees and lineage charts. Ancestry.com family trees frequently have inaccurate information.
I refer to myself as a "historical genealogist" a term I invented. I trace ancestry in the context of the historical and cultural realities in which they lived. Researching a wealthy white family in Boston is not the same as researching a poor uneducated mixed-race family in rural Kentucky.
With my own lines I had an incredible breakthrough with my paternal line: surname Holweger. I found my great-grandfather's (Christian Holweger) Civil War record. It gave his place of birth as Leidrigen, Germany (before I only knew he came from the Wurtenburg region.) I then made contact with a Holweger cousin in Leidrigen, and discovered the church there has records for our Holweger line going back to Melchoir Holweger who came across the Swiss Alps in 1598. These successes are possible when you know how to really substantiate lines.
This pic is my great-grandmother, Candus Spencer Drake, of Wolfe County, Kentucky.
My fee is $15.00 an hour with a two-hour minimum. :wink2:
I refer to myself as a "historical genealogist" a term I invented. I trace ancestry in the context of the historical and cultural realities in which they lived. Researching a wealthy white family in Boston is not the same as researching a poor uneducated mixed-race family in rural Kentucky.
With my own lines I had an incredible breakthrough with my paternal line: surname Holweger. I found my great-grandfather's (Christian Holweger) Civil War record. It gave his place of birth as Leidrigen, Germany (before I only knew he came from the Wurtenburg region.) I then made contact with a Holweger cousin in Leidrigen, and discovered the church there has records for our Holweger line going back to Melchoir Holweger who came across the Swiss Alps in 1598. These successes are possible when you know how to really substantiate lines.
This pic is my great-grandmother, Candus Spencer Drake, of Wolfe County, Kentucky.
My fee is $15.00 an hour with a two-hour minimum. :wink2: