Ancestral Wanderlust Inc.

Charlie is the founder of Ancestral Wanderlust, a genealogy research and heritage travel service. With a lifelong passion for family history and personal experience solving family mysteries, Charlie has traveled to 19 states and 4 countries for research and heritage adventures, and has built a personal family tree of over 700 relatives. The practice specializes in genealogical research that goes beyond names and dates to provide historical context and human connection, citizenship by descent eligibility research and documentation, and personalized heritage travel experiences. Charlie emphasizes culturally respectful, client-centered, accessible, and joyful approaches to family history work, with particular commitment to serving African American and Indigenous families whose histories have experienced systematic erasure.