About

I am passionate about working with you to discover, create and preserve fact-based, biographical records for future generations to treasure. I offer clients my training as an historian, excellent writing skills, research experience, careful eye for detail, and most of all, my compassion for the human experience. In my work, I uphold the standards and best practices set out by genealogists and oral historians.

In addition to having online access to records and collections across the United States and Canada, I am also in close proximity to the Library and Archives of Michigan in Lansing, the Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, as well as Ingham County records in Mason, Michigan, and other mid-Michigan repositories. I am also familiar with the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Education:

B.A. Smith College, History, 1997
Certificate in Genealogical Research (OL25), Boston University, 2017
ProGen Study Group (ProGen 41), 2020
Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG):

The Third Coast - Research in the Great Lakes Region, 2018
Corpus Juris - Advanced Legal Concepts for Genealogy, 2021

Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP): Walking in Penn's Woods - Pennsylvania Research, 2021
Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR): Research in the South - Colonial States, 2022
National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, 2018

Memberships:

Association of Professional Genealogists
National Genealogical Society
Oral History Association and Michigan Oral History Association
Utah Genealogical Association
International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG)
Lansing Area African American Genealogical Society
Ingham County Genealogical Society
Eaton County Genealogical Society
Daughters of the American Revolution, Lansing Chapter

I look forward to learning your stories, and preserving them for those who are yet to come.

About Ginger Ogilvie