Previous and ongoing projects include:

  • Using previously collected oral histories, maps, and aerial imagery to search for burial sites of enslaved people on the Blackacre Nature Preserve.

  • Compiling a comprehensive history of Blackacre Nature Preserve with a focus on unearthing information about the lives of the enslaved people who labored there under the Tyler family, the first white settlers on the land who occupied it until after the Civil War.

  • Searching for connections between a white client and Black relatives discovered through a DNA test.

  • Identifying names and descendants of people enslaved by a prominent church leader in Louisville who published an influential pamphlet which called enslavement a “blessing” for the enslaved, using eugenicist language that suggests he may have been intentionally impregnating enslaved women in order to "physically, mentally, and intellectually improve” the Black population.

  • Identifying names and descendants of people enslaved by Reverend James Craik, a national leader in the Episcopal Church who published an influential pamphlet on slavery which called enslavement a “blessing” for the enslaved and an opportunity to impart “religious, moral and intellectual culture” to “a race of barbarians," using eugenicist language that suggests Craik may have been intentionally impregnating enslaved women in order to "physically, mentally, and intellectually improve” the Black population.

  • Conducted extensive research into family lots at Cave Hill Cemetery, including creating a chart mapping the connections between all sixty-three people buried there and connecting them to their living descendants in the state of Kentucky.

  • Created a booklet with historical sketches of the aforementioned Cave Hill lot owners and the family members with whom they are buried.

  • “Reverse genealogy” of a Revolutionary War Captain, identifying all of his living descendants and locating as many as possible for a client hoping to raise funds to care for his grave site.