Helping to tell
your family’s stories.
Your family is about relationships, of course, but also history, memory, place, language, religion, and stories.
With Black Sheep Genealogy, we want to help you put all of these pieces together and save them for generations to come.
That includes showing some love for the black sheep among us!
Above: The McGinn family of Petersville, Iowa, 1934
In the News
“I think that history is really important. And people understand the way it shapes the way you move through the world. It makes you who you are. And I think everyone deserves access to that.”
— Brendan Wolfe, owner of Black Sheep Genealogy
From research to attractive presentation, you’ll find what you need at Black Sheep.
Need us to do the archive work? No sweat. Let us write you a report about what we find. Or maybe you already have boxes of documents and family trees. Let us put it all together and start connecting the dots. We can help with your DNA, too, and we have experience finding lost heirs. Click to find work samples.
Left: Mary Ellen (Wolfe) and John Kennedy, LaSalle Co., Ill., ca. 1890
Why Black Sheep and not some other family history service?
Because we’re writers, storytellers, and designers. Let us make you something beautiful for generations to come.
Right: Catherine “Black Kate” (O’Sullivan) and Maurice Woulfe and family, Athea, Co. Limerick, ca. 1912
“I can’t say enough about my experience with Black Sheep Genealogy. In a matter of two days, I have answers I’ve sought in vain for decades … I look forward to sharing this history with my children and generations to come. That’s a gift you can never put a price on.”
— Melissa L., Florida
What’s next?
Let’s have a conversation. Send me an email
to set up an initial consultation.
He Only Came Out at Night
I came across this short biographical sketch this morning, the subject of which I now want to read a whole novel about—if anyone would like to volunteer writing it. It tells the story of one Samuel Hix of Wautauga County, North Carolina . . .