Genealogy Interpreter provides an array of services including, but not limited to the following:
- Locate a wide range of documents and materials with creative
problem-solving skills, including those unavailable online.
- Conduct interviews with full communication access in English or American Sign Language.*
- Organize and extract data from existing personal collections.
- Interpret the meaning behind raw data, including the historical and geographical context within a family timeline.
- Write narrative explanations and timelines, to make records and ancestors spring to life.
- Present personalized family history programs to families at
reunions or gatherings, and provide souvenir packets to guests.
- Prepare comprehensive family history reports as gifts for weddings or baby showers.
- Collect documents and prepare applications needed for membership in various lineage societies.
- Digitize photos and documents, including digital photo restoration.
- Lead workshops on how to get started in genealogical research,
or provide coaching to those who wish to do the
research him/herself.
- Conduct short-term research projects, retrieve documents on-site from
local repositories and/or take cemetery photos on behalf of
out-of-town researchers.
- Produce, edit, and distribute family newsletters.
- Empower and educate clients by explaining both the realistic limitations and exciting possibilities of requested research projects.
* Note: The owner of
Genealogy Interpreter is a professional
genealogist and a nationally certified American Sign Language
Interpreter who enjoys working with individuals who are Hearing, Hard of
Hearing, Deaf and DeafBlind.
