About
Carolin Walden, Principal Researcher
I’ve been chasing other people’s ancestors for more than two decades — first for my own family, and for the past twelve years professionally. Family Bridges is the result: a small practice built around careful, source-cited research and the kind of presentation a family will keep on the shelf for a hundred years.
“The records are out there. The work is in knowing which ones to ask, in what order, and what they’re really telling you when they answer.”
My specialties are 18th- and 19th-century North American records, transatlantic immigration trails (especially Ireland, Germany, and the Italian Mezzogiorno), and the careful integration of DNA evidence with documentary research.
I trained through the Boston University Genealogical Research Program and the ProGen Study Group. I’m a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and adhere to the Genealogical Proof Standard on every engagement.
Before genealogy, I spent fifteen years as a public-school teacher. That experience shapes how I work today: clearly, patiently, and in a way that brings clients along for the discoveries instead of just handing them a stack of documents at the end.
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