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Your family ancestry is your greatest legacy and treasure. Build it while you have time. Sadly, many of our early clients have now passed away, but their research legacy has passed to their heirs. Have a will, and have a Family Tree.

Certain things are essential. First, a family ancestry has to be unlocked from speculation and locked into valid records. Source records and high-quality information must be found, if at all possible.
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Are you just starting on a family tree, or just now getting really serious about its quality or accuracy? Read some thoughts on a separate page by clicking here.
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"My cousin's done genealogy research, and it's wrong!" (March 1, 2011)- Click here to read
Levels of proof versus costs- YOU make the decisions.... Click here to read
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We accept new 'Friends' on Facebook. From your Facebook page, find 'Richard Ripley' (Genealogist), and click to become my 'Friend'.
I will accept. There, you can view some research project pictures which I have posted, and follow as new images are added.
You will have to become a 'LinkedIn' member to visit us there. There is no charge for membership.
We have some references and information posted there.

Through my years of professional research, I have now helped solve issues or completed entire family genealogies for over 1500 specific client situations.

 

I can help with your quest to develop an accurate and high-quality family genealogy. Whether you would like an entire genealogy developed, or would simply like help with resolving a specific issue with your family tree, you can get that help here. I can help you create a Book, or a Family Tree on your computer, or a Member Tree at Ancestry.com.

 

Perhaps you have hit a dead end, or have come up against a conflict in such available records as you can find. Perhaps you need an on-site search for a specific source record.

 

You may be a family researcher, or you may have a genealogy blog or publication, and you would like an independent and professional opinion. When you supply us with the details or needs of your genealogical issue(s), we can provide supplemental research to help solve things. We are available on a consultant basis. Send us an email, with the subject line 'Consultant Query'.

 

I have online resources and access to records which may not be available to you. Through my network of resources in many locations, using my network of NFFG Partner Members and Researchers, I can put ‘boots on the ground’ for your family project. In many cases, I will personally attend to your on-site research.

 

While you are visiting this site, be sure to look over my list of over 50 recent references and recommendations. Have a look at a couple of sample projects which I have completed recently. Read more about my NFFG network of partner researchers, and see some of the profiles for some of these NFFG Members. You can view all of these things by clicking on the links at the top left of this & other pages at this web site.

 

Need more references? I complete in-field research projects regularly. I am a registered Researcher at several Archives. I find missing documents and locate lost family graves and wills. I can provide direct email links to clients of the last sixty days. Just send an email message and request these recent references.

 

Are you a member of Ancestry.com or Ancestry.ca? It is a great place to start the finishing steps of your family research. Perhaps you have posted your family tree there, and hope to network with the holders of other trees which intersect with your family. But, have you noticed how they sometimes copy back and forth from each other, and never end in a concrete source record? We have dealt with this issue several times. We can send you references from our clients - clients for whom we have professionally resolved the  Ancestry-tree conflicts, and found the source records. 

 

Of course, I am offering a professional service. You could not expect quality and reliable research from a free site or from an amateur service. However, you may start off by asking a specific question about YOUR family research, and receive a brief answer from me, personally, for NO CHARGE. To ask such a question and receive an informed quick response from me, simply send an email to me directly, with the heading ‘free response requested’. I will not save your email address or give your email address to anyone else – I hate spam as much as you do. Your request will be answered, and we will both see what I might be able to help you with.Please send your ‘free response requested’ email to me at nffgfamily@hotmail.com. I will respond within 24 hours.

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Need to see more tributes and references? Please see the link above, to page 7 of this site.
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I find the stories in your family history. Read my recent publication (December 2011) based on a client project, about an Indian maiden, a Quaker family, and a Pennsylvania banishment. Click here.
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A Personal Note. The key to a successful family tree, which others will actually enjoy reading, is the discovery of the underlying stories of the lives of your ancestors. After the actual records have been found, and your ancestry is locked down with solid records, then you need the STORIES of the lives of your ancestors. Fight boredom. People in your lineage are more than just lines of records with names and dates. Your people may have lived for many years, and faced many decisions, achieved many successes, and suffered a few losses. The hallmark of my professional research, is the STORY (or stories) of the people in your ancestry. I love finding these. I put flowers on lost graves when I find them for clients. I say prayers over their graves. I dream of the lives of your ancestors when I sleep during a project. I become a part of your family while I am researching them. I count this as one of the great benefits of professional genealogy.
Here is a Test. What is 'a second cousin three times removed'? What does 'degrees of separation' mean? The question is one of kinship. Kinship is an important genealogical, and even legal, set of terms. It is a real thing. Not Sure? Fight Guesswork. We are able to supply Kinship Reports for our client projects, where the terms are explained in detail, and the kinship to YOU, for everyone in your Report, is clearly identified. Send an email request, to see a sample Kinship Report.
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