Your English Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans

About the author

SHERRY IRVINE is a certified genealogist with over forty years of teaching experience and credentials including CGRS and FSA Scot. Her books include Finding Your Canadian Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, Scottish Ancestry: Research Methods for Family Historians and Your Scottish Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans.

Irvine holds a history degree from Queen’s University, Canada, and a post-graduate degree from the University of Illinois. In 1997 she was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Association of Professional Genealogists.

When she’s not writing, Irvine lectures at major genealogical conferences in Canada and the United States, including for the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Her books cover ancestry research across Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada and the United States.