During a 36-year engineering career, I most enjoyed solving tough problems that required knowledge from diverse fields. In 2015, I founded Family Tree Sleuth™, where I now apply the same approach to problems requiring knowledge of geography, history, and language.

Some Family Tree Sleuth™ highlights:

Reconstructed different Eastern European ancestries, requiring transcribing and translating handwritten records in several modern and archaic languages.
Communicated with people who spoke little or no English in order to find villages and churches from past centuries.
Carefully examined records and maps and applied historical knowledge to locate villages where ancestors lived centuries ago. Some villages were abandoned to the ages, but others were found inhabited by distant cousins. With further work, in one case the very house where an ancestor lived was identified.

Experience:

Mechanical engineer in aviation industry, Schenectady, New York and Lynn, Massachusetts 1980-2016
Co-founder and past president, Plum Island Community Airfield, Newbury, Massachusetts
Founder, Burgess Aviation Museum at Plum Island Airport, Newbury, Massachusetts

Education:

AB, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 1978
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1980
Graduate studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1984-86
Certificate Course in Genealogical Research, Boston University, 2015

Member, National Genealogical Society
Member, Association of Professional Genealogists

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Ted Russell, Byfield, Massachusetts