Discovering Your Family’s History — Together
Beginning Your Family Story
- A short conversation to learn your expectations.
- Eight hours of research into a branch of your family or back a number of generations (identified from our conversation).
- A Family Tree on Ancestry or FamilySearch covering the individuals researched.
- A written report telling what was discovered, historical background, our conclusions, and where the evidence was found.
- To learn more, click here
$450
Building Your Family Tree
- A short conversation to learn your expectations.
- Review work already done for accuracy if applicable.
- Ten hours of research and tree building in Ancestry or FamilySearch, including attaching documents, identifying sources.
- Research time will include searching other sources like newspapers, county histories, family histories, and more.
- To learn more, click here
$450
Lineage Society Proof and Application
- A short conversation to learn how you think you qualify for the lineage society.
- Contact the lineage society to identify the best application process.
- Review any work already done, then begin gathering evidence proving the relationship between generations leading to the targeted ancestor.
- After eight hours of research, we will prepare a report which will describing our findings or fill out the application
- To learn more, click here
$400
Speaking/Training
We can speak to your organization on a variety of Family History topics. You can view a list of prepared topics here, or with advanced notice we can prepare a presentation on any Family History topic (except DNA).
Want to improve your Genealogical Society? We also present on society leadership, management, and conducting Zoom virtual and Hybrid meetings.
Fee based on locations one hour or less from zip 78189. To learn more, click here.
$100-in person
$80-virtual
Brick Wall Buster!
- A short conversation to learn where you are in your research and exactly what problem you want to solve.
- An exhaustive search of online records to find answers to solve our problem.
- A report detailing what we found, which hopefully was the solution. If no solution was found, we follow with a conversation of where we go from here if the solution will involve on site research. To learn more, click here.
$300
Research Package
- A short conversation so we can learn what your goals are for the research.
- Based on our conversation, we will perform 7-8 hours of research on the ancestors you specify
- After we perform the research we will prepare a report with our findings, historical context, and how it effected your ancestors.
- To learn more, click here.
$450
Coaching
- If you want to begin your own family history journey, but don’t know where to begin, this package is for you.
- We have taught hundreds of people at all experience levels how to begin and research their family histories.
- We will meet with you via Zoom or in person (within 30 miles of zip 75189)
One hour session—$60
Each additional hour—$45
Family History Book
- We start with research about your ancestors, basing their story on the facts of who your ancestor’s were and what they accomplished.
- The book can be about one ancestor, one family line, or your entire family.
- The book will include photographs you provide or we find, images of records, and images depicting the lives of your ancestors.
- To learn more click here.
Price depends on the scope of the work
Digitization
- We can digitize most media, including VHS, VHS-C, 8mm, super 8, 16mm film, photographic slides and negatives. Click here for rates on your type of media.