LANGUAGE PROFICENCIES
North Germanic
West Germanic
Romance
Judaic
Danish
Dutch
French
Hebrew
Norwegian
German
Aramaic
Swedish
Afrikaans
Yiddish
All language pairs have the TARGET text as ENGLISH.
SOURCE TEXT SUBJECT DOMAINS
Legal, medical, patents, manufacturing and industrial, financial, international relations and diplomacy, genealogy and family history,
vital statistics records (birth, marriage, death, divorce), wills, probate, land title deeds, academic records,
scientific investigational protocols and lab notes, corporate communications
ACADEMIC CREDITS
Total Undergraduate Semester Credits in Languages - 77
Total Undergraduate Semester Credits in Linguistics - 15
Total Graduate Semester Credits in Languages - 46
PROJECT SPECIALIZATIONS
General pedigree charts, medical (cause of death) pedigrees,
second/dual/multiple citizenships,
heir location, country origins of immigrating, American ancestors, obituaries,
handwriting transcription and analyisis , vital records (birth, marriage, death, divorce documents),
probate and wills, land title deeds
ETHNIC/NATIONAL FAMILY LINES SPECIALIZATIONS
Irish, French-Canadian, Jewish, Swedish, New England families
COMMON ARCHIVES AND DATABASES SEARCHED
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records,
Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Suffolk County Probate Court, Boston, MA
Middlesex County Probate Court, Cambridge, MA
Norfolk County Probate Court, Canton, MA
Essex County Probate Court, Salem, MA
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
New England Branch, Waltham, MA
Les Archives nationales du Québec, Montréal, QC, CAN
National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (online)
National Archives of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (online)
Swedish National Archives , Stockholm, Sweden (online)
EMPLOYMENT
dba TransAncestry (Sole Proprietor)
U.S. State Department,
Agency for International Development, Africa Bureau, Technical Resources,, Washington, DC
Library of Congress , Washington, DC
EDUCATION
Carl Friedrich von Siemens Oberschule (Gymnasium)
, Berlin, Germany
One year visiting student
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Bachelor of Science in Languages (BSL)
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA
Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters (MHL)
Midreshet Yerushalayim , Jerusalem, Israel (closed 1990)
One year visiting student
CERTIFICATION
Notary Public in Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission expires April 16, 2021
Certification of own translated target texts for use by academic institutions, USCIS, embassies, consulates, et al.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Translators Association
New England Translators Association
Association of Professional Genealogists
New England Historic Genealogical Society
CLIENTELE
Clients include attorneys, translation and localization agencies, academics, medical
professionals, leaders in the performing arts community, federal and state government agencies, genealogists and probate research
(heir locator) companies
MEDIA
Regular guest columnist for the Wakefield Daily Item,
Wakefield, MA, 2005-2013
Professional profile featured in the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, Sept. 2012
CITIZENSHIPS