Roots Expert
Daylight Genealogy
Martha Runnette
Everyone deserves to know their immigrant ancestors
How they can help
- Remote research
- Researches in
- United States
- Based in
- United States · Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Time periods
- 1619–1870 · Colonial era · Revolutionary War era
About
Reparative genealogist and descendant of enslavers who rebuilds family trees of Black Americans by researching the Revolutionary and Colonial ancestors of white American clients.
Martha Runnette is a reparative genealogist specializing in researching Revolutionary and Colonial ancestors of white American clients to identify any involvement in slavery and unearth names of enslaved persons. She reassembles family trees of the enslaved as a volunteer with WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project and provides pro bono work for Black clients who are descendants of enslaved Africans. Martha researches specified family lines from 1870 back to 1619 or to the immigrant ancestor, using family bibles, published histories, lineage society documentation, and online repositories including FamilySearch, Ancestry, WikiTree, and state/county archives.
Specialties
- reparative genealogy
- slavery research
- Black family history reconstruction
- Colonial ancestry
- Revolutionary War ancestry
- enslaver descendants
Additional credentials
Volunteer with WikiTree US Black Heritage Project; pro bono genealogist for Black descendants of enslaved Africans; Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) 10 Million Names Project collaboration — collaboration — US Revolutionary War era
Colorado, United States
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