Recent Projects

identifying the Jamaican, Haitian, and French roots of a white man whose DNA test results revealed unexpected African roots

 

determining the whereabouts and subsequent life of a New York City man after he went missing and was declared dead in 1928

 

proving a 19th-century married Brooklyn man to be the same man with a different wife and different mistresses in Massachusetts and Maine

 

untangling the identities of three War of 1812 veterans, confused and combined into one fictional person by the War Department

 

tracing 11 generations from a Florida man to his 17th-century Huguenot immigrant ancestors, finding his 17th-century Dutch, Swedish, and Norwegian immigrant ancestors in the process

 

identifying an early 19th-century William Brown of New York City and differentiating him from more than 20 others of the same name, place, and time period

 

identifying and locating the biological father of a man whose recent DNA test revealed a surprise in his paternity

 

discovering the mother, through multiple marriages, of an early 19th-century New York City sea captain

 

proving ownership and date of construction of a Brooklyn building
for a landmark application

 

tracing an early 20th-century Jewish family's journeys back and forth between New York City and a portion of the Russian Empire that later became Lithuania

 

disproving a family myth of close relationship with an early U. S. president

 

finding the American life and descendants of an
immigrant Sicilian couple in Manhattan

 

finding an Irish immigrant’s life in Massachusetts before he permanently returned to Ireland

 

confirming family lore of a Pittsburgh mother having 15 children
leading up to the Depression

 

separating one Patrick Carroll from dozens of others in finding a tea merchant’s Irish origins

 

finding southern Italian origins and identifying places of
interest for an upcoming trip

 

identifying all ancestry through 6 generations for a Georgia-born businesswoman in Manhattan

 

finding living descendants of a founding father of
New York City’s Seneca Village