Ancestral Path
Genealogy Services

What we offer

Family, person, and location research

With our expertise in U.S.-based research, we customize research to your project goals — investigating your family, an individual ancestor, or ancestral location. Contact us to discuss.

Online family tree building

We build your family tree on Ancestry or Family Search, ensuring that the correct documentation is attached to your family. We have experience resolving issues of individuals with the same name.

Minnesota record retrieval

We access Minnesota archives and repositories to obtain records missing in your own personal research.

Presentations and Classes

We are developing a class series for middle to high school students and home-school learners covering genealogy research for young adults.

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Available Presentations:

  • Enhancing Your Research With Periodicals: PERSI and JSTOR

DNA results analysis assistance

With our assistance sorting your AncestryDNA match results, we help confirm your family research documentation.

Verification of previous research

We examine your family research to ensure you are on the right track; we additionally can find records you may be missing, or determine if these records exist.

“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”

— James Baldwin

Vintage photo of a man seated and a woman standing, both in formal 19th-century attire.