5 hours Professional Family Tree Research

Description

This listing is for 5 hours of family tree research performed by a Professional Genealogist who is a listed member of Genealogy Freelancers, Genlighten, Family Search Wiki, and Rootsbid. You must provide the names, birth dates, and birth places of yourself, your parents, and your grandparents. (Or information leading up to your brick wall ancestor) This research will include an online family tree that you will be given access to, as well as a pedigree report and ancestor report delivered via email. All research will be well resourced and any sources will be incorporated into the online tree and reports.
If additional research is desired at the end of the 5 hour block, I can provide more time for an additional fee.
The 5 hours of research will begin within 14 days of receiving your information and will be completed before the end of 60 days. You must agree to email communications and electronic delivery of your reports. Please provide your email address when you make your purchase. You also agree to be held by the contract that is listed below:
Jessica McManus Paul, Professional Genealogist
Services:
The genealogy research services shall include reviewing information provided by the client, genealogical research, written reports and online family tree.  The reports shall include an ancestry/ahnentafel report and pedigree reports. All reports and other information will be delivered via email. You will also receive a GEDCOM file of the research project that can be turned into an online tree or used with any genealogy software available. (You can also use Roots Magic or Family Tree Maker to merge with an existing family tree if you own one of them) The genealogist will also include copies or web links of documents/books used in researching the lineage. When appropriate, the genealogist will make future research recommendations for the client.
The typical research project will include searches of the
US
census, any available birth, marriage, and divorce records over a variety of databases. Research will also include an extensive internet search for additional information such as newspaper notices. All sources will be carefully documented and listed within the reports provided.
Family tree binders and family tree websites are available for an additional expense. If interested, please ask for more information.  I also can work with Autosomal DNA tests and do DNA matching work.
Hourly Fee:
The hourly fee is
.00
per hour for genealogical research services as described above. Research time will include travel as well as telephone or email consultations with client.
All projects will be invoiced using Paypal and all payments must clear before work begins.
Please remember that when you hire a professional genealogist, you pay them for their time doing the research and reports of what was found or not found. You are not paying for a specific outcome. I cannot and will not make promises that I can provide a certain outcome. I can only report what the records/sources indicate. And those records/sources may provide information that proves something other than what you may expect.
Vital Records:
Most records are obtained through online resources, any records ordered will only be ordered with the prior approval of the client. (Records not obtained online will result in extra charges for those records.)
Due to privacy laws in place, all vital records less than 75 years old that are not available online, but desired by the client, will have to be purchased by the client. Only direct family members can order such records under current laws. I will make recommendations where to get such records, as needed.
I will hold confidential any information you provide that is not already a matter of public record or public knowledge. I will treat with discretion, even if they are already matters of public record, issues that concern living persons, as well as the any items that you have specifically noted as sensitive. I will protect the privacy of all Raw DNA information shared to be transferred to other matching services. Otherwise, I retain the right to make further use of the results of research done at your request, with the exception of Raw DNA data.
Client Family Information:
To avoid charging for duplication work, please provide a duplicate copy of information that you, the client, have compiled on the person or family to be researched. And gedcom file or access to an online tree are the easiest way to do this. If neither are available, then you should share family group sheets or charts; religious affiliations; known places of birth, marriage, and death; other significant life events; military information; siblings; parents; etc.
This can be done be attaching the files into an email or allowing editor access to your online family tree.
Future Use of Work Product:
You agree that if you distribute to others or publish any information taken from my report, including my findings and conclusions, you will report them accurately, you will include any qualifiers (for example, the words probable or possible, when accompanying a conclusion), and you will credit my report as the source. I retain the copyright to the Gedcom file and any reports including the manner in which I have expressed the information them. You may make a limited number of personal copies as a “fair use” of the copyrighted files, but you agree that you will not otherwise publish or make multiple copies of the report for anything other than personal use without my written permission.
DISCLAIMERS
1.
I can make no guarantee regarding what information, if any, can be found, or what conclusions may be drawn from it. I cannot predict in advance the specific amount of time needed to find requested information or prove facts or relationships, and that the risk of non-discovery, or of discoveries contrary to those desired, is always a possibility.
In cases of Native American Research, I cannot guarantee a connection will be found, and IF found, I do not make any guarantees concerning Tribal Enrollment or potential benefits.
2.
When little information is found, the genealogist shall lessen the burden on the client by ending the research and providing a refund to reflect only work completed and will end the project when no other information is obtainable.
At this point an explanation of the situation will be provided via email.
3.
There are times when oral history and resources will not agree. In this case, the only information that will be reported will be that which is able to be documented.
4.
Projects will be worked in the order of which they are purchased. If research will not be started within the first week after purchase, you will be given a time-frame of when the project is expected to begin and end. If you hire me to research your project, there may be projects ahead of yours, so please be patient. I will keep you fully informed as to the time frame for your project. 5 hour projects not started within 3 months (90 days) of payment will be refunded.