I can help you find your heritage.

• Lineage studies - trace one or all lines back
• Descendant reports - full family histories
• Record look-ups - at an archive, at the courthouse or on the Internet
• Brick walls broken through - analysis and attack on your most difficult problems
• Research readied for publication - your work or mine written to meet the highest professional standards
• Results can be put into a computer program, compiled on a CD, or published on the Internet

I can help you be a better genealogist.

• One-on-one instruction and coaching
• Lectures for groups and society meetings
• Multi-session classes

Tom Rice is the Heritage Hunter

• My focus is 19th and 20th Century America, especially the MidWest
• Tracing lines back to origins in Canada, Ireland, Scotland or England
• A particular strength of mine is applying the research and analytical skills I learned from my scientific training to difficult genealogical problems.
• All projects end with a professionally written report giving full source citations and the reasoning for how problems were solved.

I am a professional genealogy researcher and teacher. The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) has evaluated a portfolio of my work and and allowed me to use the title "Certified Genealogist(CG)". From my location in the Minneapolis / St. Paul metro area, I have ready access to all of the regional repositories, and can travel as needed throughout the upper Midwest. I specialize in applying analytical methodologies and efficient research strategies to difficult genealogical problems. When attacking a problem, I use a broad array of record types and tools. I am an effective communicator who also enjoys teaching and one-on-one coaching. To me it is a joy to help others enjoy their genealogical pursuits by helping them get better at it.

Thoughts on
Genealogy, Family History & Heritage Hunting

To my mind these are all part of the same continuum. Genealogy taken to its fullest is much more than just the sterile facts associated with the births, marriages and deaths of our ancestors. At its fullest, it is the detailed story of our ancestors' lives. A chain of these life stories becomes the history of a family.  To be complete, a Family History should also give the reader a picture of the times, places and buildings where our ancestors lived and worked. It is from this history of our families that we learn what they did to bring about the family and world we now live in. We need to know our Family History in order to fully appreciate our Heritage. Our genealogy studies thus lead to our Family History and thence to an appreciate for our Heritage.

Thus Heritage Hunting is Genealogy and Family History taken to the fullest extent.

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