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Meet Your Genealogists

  Wilby & Rene Stone  

Founders

Tree & Root Total Genealogy started many years ago when Wilby, a young man in the military, was stationed in France for a few years. There was a cafe nearby where the coffee was good and the  ambiance was excellent, mostly due to a charming French girl who was often sat in the corner with a stack of books on her table. Wilby admired her from afar for weeks, but eventually worked up the nerve to try to talk to her. He was tongue-tied and foolish sounding, but she took pity on his bumbling and agreed to dinner. Forty years later, they still share dinners, good books, and a love of history, ancestry and connection. 

WIlby and Rene have worked researching family histories for decades, founding Tree & Root Total Genealogy the same year they married, and they and their team has expanded over the years as the internet opened up new resources and research travel became easier and more reliable. Today, with the advent of DNA testing, they have added DNA genealogy and research to their services with the addition of a DNA specialist and more ancestry researchers.

From individual ancestor research looking for specific answers to a family story, to full length full family chronicles that span more than a thousand years of family history, we are proud to help each client find the path through history taken by their own ancestors, and to give each one a sense of their own place in our wonderful world.

It is our honor to help other folks find the stories within their families that keep those connections between the generations alive and intact, and we’ve made it our mission for most of these wonderful forty years.