Private Researchers For Hire

The independent researchers on this list have indicated a desire to do genealogical and historical research on a private fee basis. These researchers have requested to be on this list. NO GUARANTEE for the speed, accuracy, or completeness of work of these researchers is expressed or implied by the Society. This list is provided for your convenience only. All communication must go directly to the researcher. In the event that the Historical Society receives a complaint against a fee-based researcher, the fee researcher will be informed. If you have a compliment on a fee researcher's service, the Society, also, would like to be informed.

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BJ Alderman, AIIP: 211 E 79th Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64114; Email: luvdale884@gmail.com Website: www.bjalderman.com; FEE: $25.00 per hour for research, reports, and timeline preparation plus cost of photocopies, postage/shipping, photo reproduction, and other normal costs of conducting research. Detailed reports with all sources cited. $100.00 minimum deposit with each request; one-half deposit required for requests in excess of $200.; EXPERIENCE: Over 40 years research experience in business, research institutes, higher education, non-profits. Member: Association of Independent Information Professionals. I have conducted research across the USA and in England on the topics of history, historical photographs, business records, litigation, law enforcement, census records, US Civil War, Kansas/Missouri border war, Pony Express, WWII, Orphan Trains, pioneers, Old West outlaws, arts and artists. Author of critically acclaimed popular history based on nation-wide research: The Secret Life of the Lawman’s Wife (Praeger Publishing).
Virgil W. Dean, PhD: 11 Westwood Road, Lawrence, KS 66044. Phone: 785-841-5954. E-mail: vwdean51@gmail.com; FEE: $40.00 per hour; plus expenses; two hour minimum.; EXPERIENCE: Dean has been researching and writing about Kansas and regional history for more than twenty-five years, and for more than twenty years he edited Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, a peer-reviewed quarterly published by the Kansas Historical Society. He began working for the KSHS in 1987 and received his PhD in U.S. History in 1991. In addition to numerous articles, encyclopedia essays, and book reviews, he has published three books: An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Postwar Farm Policy Debate (2006); John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History (2006); and a Territorial Kansas Reader (2005); as well as with the late Kansas State University professor Homer E. Socolofsky, Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography, an extensive work that contains over 4500 entries. He has taught Kansas history at Washburn University and the University of Kansas, worked as a historical consultant for the Kansas Humanities Council, and is currently working as the consulting editor of Kansas History for Chapman Center of Rural Studies, Kansas State University.
Deborah Kemp: Email: Deborah.Kemp@live.com; FEE: $30.00 per hour, plus $.50 per mile outside the Kansas City metropolitan area, cost of photocopies and other expenses such as: tolls, parking, mass mailing (10+ pieces), $300.00 minimum retainer to begin work, and signed research contract. Research report submitted upon completion of assignment.; EXPERIENCE: Graduate studies in Sociology; more than 20 years genealogical, business and legal research; experience with large-scale projects, including research for book authors, screenwriters and scholars who require an accomplished researcher and writer to access records at repositories throughout the Midwest. Speciality research in 20th and 19th century history, including military history and, in particular, WWII records. Professional research throughout Midwest U.S. and the national capital region (Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia).
Joan Kusek: 9640 Walmer, Overland Park, KS 66212-1554. E-mail: vntgprdcts@everestkc.net , Phone: 913-648-8725 website: Vintage Products; FEE: $30.00 per hour, plus $.50 per mile, cost of photocopies, other expense such as: highway tolls, parking, etc. $100.00 minimum deposit with each request; over 50 miles, $200.00 minimum; one-half deposit required for request of $200 or more. Detailed reports with all sources cited.; EXPERIENCE: Over 20 years genealogical experience with 11 as a professional; Instructor of Genealogy for Johnson County Community College since 1989; Lecturer at Regional Conferences; Past President Johnson County Genealogical Society; Publisher of books for Wyandotte County, KS, and Bates County, MO. Services: KSHS Research, National Archives, Native American, and LDS. Member: Association for Professional Genealogists.
Jeff Mackey: Merriam, KS. Phone: (785)249-7100. E-mail: mackey.jeff@ymail.com; FEE: $30 per hour, plus $.25 per mile outside the Kansas City Metro and other expenses such as: tolls both, parking and cost of photocopies. $200 minimum retainer to begin work along with signed research contract. Research findings and/or findings submitted upon completion of assignment.; EXPERIENCE: Graduate studies in history and social science. Experience doing large scale research projects to helping companies fact check . Have experience with researching at different repositories and presidential libraries in the mid west. Specialty research in: U.S. and European history, government and genealogy.
Mary Jane McIntire: 955 South 9th, Salina, KS 67401. Phone (785)825-8703. E-mail: mjmi@cox.net; FEE: $15.00 per hour, 2-hour minimum, mileage, cost of photocopies, postage, highway tolls, parking, long distance calls, photographs, etc.; EXPERIENCE: Began genealogical research in 1974 and have been working professionally since 1997. Completed Brigham Young University family history course studies. Published author, genealogical instructor, and lecturer. Researcher for non-fiction authors. President of Smoky Valley Genealogical Society. Member of Mayflower Society of KS, Founders & Patriots, Women Descendents of Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. of Massachusetts, and other societies: DAR, DAC, Daughters of War of 1812. Will do heredity society lineage research and papers. Familiar with census records, newspapers, land records, probate records, archives, and courthouse research. Willing to travel.
Judith Sweets: 2905 Moccasin Drive, Lawrence, KS 66049-1718. E-mail: portals2history@gmail.com website: Portals2history; FEE: $30.00 per hour for research, plus expenses for postage, photocopies, photographs, mileage, etc. Two-hour minimum. One-half deposit required for requests of $200 or more. Research report submitted to client upon completion.; EXPERIENCE: Author and former archivist, curator, and exhibit coordinator began conducting genealogical research more than thirty years ago; Master’s degree in Historical Administration and Museum Studies; former editor of The Pioneer for the Douglas County [Kansas] Genealogical Society; experience with in-depth historical research for scholars, authors and artists; former instructor of “Genealogy and the Internet” classes; specializes in newspaper, census and image research as well as African-American and territorial Kansas research; member of Association of Professional Genealogists.

Private Researchers For Hire

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