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We specialize in long-term community-based projects. Our projects include, but are not limited to histories and genealogies of displaced or lost communities and reconciliation for organizations with past ties to slavery.
PRICING: Contact us
INITIAL SCOPING FEE: Up to $500

We specialize in international and domestic heir research for unsettled estates, real estate matters and restoration of property rights for abandoned properties of World War II. Additionally, we provide documentation retrieval services to clients seeking dual citizenship. We do not work on a contingency basis. We do not provide investigative genetic genealogy services (IGG) nor do we perform support services for law enforcement cases.
PRICING: $125/hour

We accept requests for family history projects and geographically specialize in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. However, we have extended experience across the eastern half of the United States. We built our core skills by providing such services to families and will continue to accept a limited number of family history projects on a month-by-month basis.
We currently have start dates beginning in late September 2025 for individual family history projects due to previous commitments for community and forensic cases.
SCOPING FEE: $180 includes review of work completed by client and development of detailed research plan and proposal.
RESEARCH PACKAGE without DNA: $1,250 for ten hours.
RESEARCH PACKAGE with DNA: $1,875 for fifteen hours

Email: pamela@backstories-research.com

Phone: 1 (202) 743-2042