I’m a certified professional organizer, the owner Peace of Mind Organizing® in St. Louis, Missouri, which I founded in 2005. I help people get organized in their homes every day. I’m also a genealogy enthusiast and for a dozen years or more spent a good deal of time honing my genealogy organizational systems.
When I was focused on genealogy research and blogging here regularly, I did my best to do at least a little genealogy research every day, exploring my own family’s roots, which are primarily in Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, and Washington. I’m all about digital organizing. When I started getting serious about my genealogy in 2012, I printed out everything and filed it in paper files. Now, I never print and instead promptly rename and file all digital documents. It’s a system that works very well for me.
I love sharing my knowledge and expertise. I’ve spoken twice at RootsTech, the giant genealogy conference held in Salt Lake City. The first time was in 2017, talking with Brooks Duncan of DocumentSnap about going paperless in genealogy research. In 2020, I presented The Imperfect Genealogist, a talk encouraging people to recognize when good enough is good enough in their research. I’ve spoken twice at the St. Louis Genealogy Conference and have been a frequent attendee of other genealogy conferences. For five years, I co-hosted Getting to Good Enough, a podcast to help you let go of perfectionism so you can do more of what you love. My co-host and I decided to stop podcasting in 2023, but in 2025 we brought it back. The archives from all those years are still available and new episodes are published every Thursday.
I’m the rare genealogist who actually enjoys organizing my family history research. While I’m no longer updating the blog, a dozen years of posts are available for you to peruse. I hope this blog will help you make organizing your genealogy research fun and easy!
