Historian - Educator - Optimist - Storyteller - Jack of All Trades
Christy Walton.
How my journey began.
Current Projects
Genealogist & Genetic Genealogist @ The Modern Genealogist
Contract work for other Genealogists (Genealogy & DNA Work)
Genetic Genealogist - Firebird Forensics (Cold homicide, Sexual assault & Unknown Remains cases)
Social Media Manager - Texas State Genealogical Society
Christy Walton was raised in sunny Southern California and now lives in Cowboy country. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History Teaching, Minor in Psychology and completed her Teaching Licensing program all from the University of Utah. She taught United States and World History at the middle and high school level for 8 years and obtained the position of Department Chairman. This experience and education allowed her to have vast knowledge and understanding of life and events in both the United States and across the world.
Christy began researching her own family history at the age of 16 because of her interest in her grandfather’s service in World War II and the fjord her grandmother came from. She has 20 years experience in genealogy research (U.S., Polish, Norwegian & English). She has many years experience solving unknown parentage cases for adoptees and finding lost family. She also has been working cold cases with Firebird Forensics since March 2022.
She loves being mom, traveling, landscaping, do-it-yourself house projects, concerts, dancing, cooking, & laughing with her husband.
My Mission
As an educator, I valued the story more than the date. It mattered more to me how events shaped the character of a person rather then events themselves. After all, great things are accomplished starting with one person. I taught character development using the stories of history to my students in hopes they could create a greater image of themselves and aspire to rise above the limits they believed life handed them.
I, too, wanted to be inspired by my own family, living and deceased. I have found stories of love, bravery, loss, sisterhood/brotherhood, and perseverance in my deceased ancestors. I have also become great friends with living distant relatives no one previously knew. One of my greatest joys was when my father flew to a tiny Norwegian village in the arctic region. After being greeted by Ulf, a distant cousin I had found years prior, he walked the shores of the fjord, visited the small houses and walked on the land his mother and ancestors once stood.
My life as an educator and public servant now slightly shifts in this next chapter of life as a professional genealogist. I want to educate and inspire others within their own family tree. Your ancestor’s experiences and journeys are in your blood and their personalities, talents and traditions are still seen in you. They are your inspirational stories waiting to be found.