Genealogical Resume
Kristin holds paid subscriptions to many online databases and has established a working network of fellow professional genealogists across the United States and abroad. She strives to uphold the guidelines and ethics of the genealogy community as set forth by the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and the National Genealogical Society (NGS).
Professional Genealogist
Kristin Harms is the owner and principal genealogist of Relative Proof, LLC.
She is the past Director of the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research in
Athens, Georgia. She has spoken at various NGS conferences and specializes in
colonial research. In 2017 Kristin received the AncestryProGenealogists Scholarship.
Kristin has colonial roots in Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts. Her immigrant ancestors came from Germany,
Switzerland, England, Scotland, and Ireland. In addition to U.S. colonial research, Kristin specializes in research in the Southeastern United States, specifically Georgia. She lives just outside of Atlanta, Georgia convenient to the Georgia Archives and the National Archives at Atlanta, NARA’s Southeastern Division. Kristin earned her B.A. in East Asian Studies and Economics from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and also studied Chinese at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. She has been chasing and analyzing the evidence of her own ancestors’ lives for 25 years.
Kristin and her husband have two adult children and several shelter dogs. For the past seventeen years Kristin has delivered the same Meals on Wheels route. If Kristin is not the right researcher for your project, she is more than happy to help put you in touch with the researcher who is.