Diane Rapaport is a full-time professional genealogist who traces ancestors and locates missing heirs, applying her investigative skills to find people from the 17th to the 21st centuries and prove family relationships. She is well qualified with unique expertise in genealogy, law, and history to solve challenging research problems and get results. Diane began her career as a trial lawyer and has been a licensed attorney since 1978, but she left the practice of law more than a decade ago to focus on her lifelong interests in genealogy and history. She has achieved national recognition as a genealogist, award-winning author, and popular speaker, and has served as a research consultant for the TV series, Who Do You Think You Are? With her own professional genealogy business, Diane has completed hundreds of projects for clients throughout the United States and other countries. Based in the Boston area, Diane specializes in New England research, but she has a network of associates to assist when onsite work is needed outside the region.
