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Contact Information:

    dcjoyce@findmyfamilyplease.com

  EXPERIENCE:
  • Certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists [BCG]
  • Board of Directors, Minnesota Genealogical Society
  • Chair, Minnesota Cemetery Project
  • Master of Liberal Arts Degree, Hamline University, 1992
  • Over 75 courses and workshops on genealogical techniques and records, 1990-2006
  • Over 20 years experience in family history research

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Help beginning genealogists start a family history, and learn to use effective research strategies
  • Advanced problem solving techniques
  • American migration routes during the 18th and 19th centuries
  • Research on TIMES and PLACES --early communities and their social history
  • Historical fiction of special interest to genealogists
  • Ethnic groups, including Norwegian, German, "Yankee" [English], Swedish, Scots-Irish, and Swede-Finns

PERSONAL RESEARCH:

  • The Finical Family in America [Pennsylvania Germans, from the 18th century]
  • The Reiquam Family in America [Norway to Wisconsin and Minnesota]
  • The Cruikshank Clan [Scotland to Nova Scotia to Minnesota]
  • Norton Researchers of CT>NY>OH> IL and related places [English]
  • Descendants of Thomas Ramsey of Pennsylvania [Scots-Irish Immigrants; PA> KY>IN]
  • Alexander Johnson Family of French River Minnesota [Swede-Finns]
  • Nils Evanson Family of Duluth Minnesota [Norwegians]
  • Descendants of Andrew and Anna Johnson of Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota [Swedish]

© 2001, Darlene C. Joyce
Last updated: 8/1/2006