GENEALOGY FAMILY LINE RESEARCH — 2 HOURS
Have a family line you want investigated but do not know where to go next?
Send me the information you already have, tell me which family line or branch you want researched, and I will spend up to TWO FULL HOURS actively researching that line using relevant available historical records and reliable genealogy sources.
The goal is simple: use the purchased research time as productively as possible, follow the evidence where it leads, and document what can reasonably be established.
THE TWO HOURS ARE RESEARCH TIME
This package includes up to 2 hours of active genealogy research.
Time spent afterward organizing the evidence, documenting significant sources, and preparing your written research report does not reduce the two-hour research block.
WHAT I MAY RESEARCH
Depending on the family, location, time period, and available records, research may include:
• U.S. federal and state census records
• birth, marriage, and death records
• obituaries and newspapers
• cemetery and burial records
• city directories
• immigration and naturalization records
• military records
• probate and estate material
• land and property records
• church records
• historical directories and databases
• archival catalogs and digitized collections
• other relevant historical sources
Research may follow parents, spouses, children, siblings, neighbors, witnesses, or other related people when they materially help establish the family line.
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
After the research block is completed, you will receive a documented written research report that may include:
• research objective
• starting information supplied by you
• sources and record groups searched
• documented findings
• significant source citations
• chronological findings where useful
• analysis of relationships and identities
• conflicts or uncertain evidence
• written conclusion
• unresolved questions
• recommended next research steps
• record copies, excerpts, or source links when legally and practically available
WHAT I NEED FROM YOU
After purchase, please send through eBay Messages:
• the name of the person or couple where the research should begin
• approximate birth and death dates, if known
• known locations
• known parents, spouses, children, or other relatives
• the family line or branch you want investigated
• what you already know about that line
• records, screenshots, links, or tree information you already possess
• research you have already attempted
• any conflicting information you have encountered
The more useful starting information you provide, the more effectively I can use your research time.
SCOPE
This package covers one family line or closely related research objective.
I may follow collateral relatives when they help establish identities or relationships, but this is not unlimited research into every branch discovered along the way.
Interesting leads that fall outside the purchased scope will be documented as possible next steps rather than automatically researched.
IMPORTANT
Genealogy research cannot guarantee a particular result.
Your purchase is for two hours of documented professional-style research effort and the resulting report. It does not guarantee:
• a specific number of ancestors
• a specific number of generations
• discovery of a particular record
• proof of a particular relationship
• resolution of every conflicting fact
• a definitive answer where surviving evidence is insufficient
Historical records may be missing, restricted, incorrectly indexed, contradictory, or may never have existed.
This service is primarily intended for deceased individuals in United States family-history research.
DNA interpretation, adoption or unknown-parentage investigations, citizenship applications, legal-heir determinations, tribal-enrollment claims, forensic genealogy, extensive international research, and investigations of living people are outside the normal scope of this listing.
Paid third-party records, archive fees, certificates, or repository charges are not included and will never be ordered without your approval.
ABOUT THE RESEARCHER
I have approximately 17 years of genealogy and family-history research experience, primarily through extensive research of my own extended family and assisting others before beginning to offer paid research through Dear June Collectibles.
My primary experience is with United States genealogy, with particular familiarity with western Pennsylvania research.
TURNAROUND
Please allow up to 5 business days after I receive the information needed to begin.
REVISION
One reasonable revision for correction or clarification of the completed report is included.
A revision does not include additional research time, a new family branch, a new ancestor, or a new research question.
Please message me before purchasing if you are unsure whether your project fits this package.
CANCELLATION, DELIVERY & RETURNS
This is a custom research service prepared specifically for you.
If you need to cancel before research has begun, please contact me as soon as possible. Once research has begun, the research work already performed is non-refundable.
Completed custom genealogy research is not returnable.
Your completed research will be provided as a printed research report and mailed to you with tracking after the project is finished.