Welcome to No Ancestor Left Behind, a genealogical services website and blog. I, Jennifer, am the primary researcher and I am honored that you have chosen to visit my page. Through this site, I intend to provide services to clients, blog about my family & personal research, and help family historians & genealogists become better organized in both the storage of their research as well as their actual research.
Being helpful towards other researchers, or helping someone learn more about their family, is something that will always put a smile on my face. Services I provide others include record retrieval in my general area of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, or Chesapeake, VA. If a genealogist needs help deciding what the best next step may be for their research and they want to bounce ideas off someone else, I am available. If someone has questions about their DNA results or they are wondering where they should get their DNA tested, I can help. Researching & writing reports on ancestors is a common request of a genealogist and I provide that service as well. My favorite service to provide is lineage society applications and research. I have joined a couple societies and look forward to joining more, myself, and love to help others achieve their goals of researching and gaining membership privileges in a society of their choice – if they meet the membership requirements.
Under Dear Descendants I intend to write about my family and personal research. It will be here where others researching surnames that match mine may find common ancestors or relatives mentioned. Here is where I may discuss heirloom-worthy gifts made of family history – whether its homemade cookies & Nana’s recipe printed on a tea towel, the maternal line framed photographs showing all the way to the mid-1860s, or a family tree album consisting of all photographs in chronological order and familial lines. It will be here where I hope that others will comment on shared surnames, and we can help one another with our personal research.
Getting organized in research not only encompasses the actual researching but what to do with everything once the research is done. This may be a great place for fellow researchers or family historians to check for ideas on how to best file away their research, documents, list of family heirlooms (from where/whom each piece is from so that future researchers know that those pieces are important), both digitally and/or in a physical form.
I would love to communicate with all of you frequently through these blog posts but do not want to inundate your email. At the very least expect one to two posts per month, during some months I may have posts coming through weekly as time allows.
No Ancestor Left Behind 