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About Me

Lisa S. Gorrell, CG, is a Certified Genealogist®, who lives in California. She has seriously researched her family for more than twenty-five years.  It was the birth of her daughters that began the journey connecting the past and the future generations.  One trip to Sutro Library in San Francisco, where she found her grandfather’s family in microfilm of the 1920 census got her hooked.

She is also a founding member of Applied Genealogy Institute, where she teaches intermediate and advanced hands-on courses. 

She enjoys volunteering and is currently a board member of the Contra Costa Historical Society and volunteers at their archives at the History Center in Martinez. She is a past president of the Contra Costa County Genealogical Society and past-recording secretary of the California Genealogical Society. She has been a tour leader with CGS’s research trip to Salt Lake City.

She has maintained two blogs since 2011 and enjoys writing about her family and her genealogy journey. Every day is a good day if there is genealogy in it.

Contact:
Email: snrylisa at gmail dot com
Other blog: mam-massouthernfamily.blogspot.com