About the Author

Lorine McGinnis Schulze is a Canadian genealogist who has been involved in the fields of genealogy and history for more than thirty years. Lorine is the creator and owner of Olive Tree Genealogy website at http: //www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ and several other websites, all bringing free genealogical content online for genealogists and historians. Lorine is active in the genealogy community with several blogs including Olive Tree Genealogy blog at http: //www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ and Ask Olive Tree at http: //askolivetree.blogspot.com/. In February 2011 she was an official blogger for RootsTech Technology and Genealogy Convention in Salt Lake City Utah. Lorine is the author of many published genealogical and historical articles and books. Her list of published works is available at http: //www.olivetreegenealogy.com/published.sht