Worldwise Family History Consulting

Our Process and Services

1. Family Tree Creation

We partner with you to identify, verify, and document your ancestors and family, transforming names, dates, and places into a clear and accurate family tree.

Each tree is custom-built to reflect your lineage and can be personalized with a distinctive design, historical imagery, or background of your choice—creating a visually engaging heirloom that preserves your family’s story for generations.

2. Social History Research

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We then move beyond names and dates to reveal the lived experience of your ancestors. Our focused research uncovers their origins, movements, and family connections while grounding them in their historical and local context. Using targeted document tracing with clear source notes, we explore work, faith, family, and community life to show not only who your ancestors were, but how they lived. Each project follows a phased research plan with regular updates, transparent sourcing, and practical recommendations, keeping you informed every step of the way.

3. Family History Narratives

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We transform rigorous genealogical research into engaging, evidence-based family history narratives that read as living history, not just documentation. Carefully integrating records, timelines, maps, and historical context, we connect individuals to the places, events, and decisions that shaped their lives. Each narrative weaves documented research with social, economic, and local history to create a clear, accurate, and compelling account of your family’s journey across generations, preserving both the facts and the human story behind them.

Portfolio

See below an example of one of our most recent family history narratives published on Amazon.com. To take a peek inside, click on the book cover below!

Emerald Isle Origins:
The Potter Family History, Volume 1

This publication exemplifies our full-service approach to genealogical research and narrative writing, combining 1) family tree research, development, and construction; 2) original record research, land and parish documentation, historical maps, and local context to trace one family’s roots in Ireland and 3) crafting an engaging genealogical narrative story placing them within the social, economic, and cultural world they inhabited.

The result is a rigorously sourced, readable family history that weaves evidence and context into a cohesive, engaging narrative—transforming archival findings into a lasting family legacy.

This book has been published by Worldwise Family History Consulting and is available on Amazon.com.

Description:

Across the mist-swept fields of Ireland’s Boyne Valley, a quiet drama unfolds—one that will shape a family’s fate for generations. Emerald Isle Origins: The Potter Family History, Volume I follows the Potters from the glow of a humble hearth in Cullen townland into the turbulent currents of 18th- and 19th-century County Meath. Here, tenant farmers lived on a knife’s edge as political unrest, punishing laws, and year-to-year uncertainty pressed in from all sides.

Drawing on historical records, maps, parish registers, and vividly reconstructed scenes, this volume reveals how every decision carried consequences. As these forces tighten and the familiar world begins to fracture, the Potters stand at a crossroads. What they choose next will determine not only their survival, but the future of every generation that follows—a journey where resilience becomes destiny and change is already on the horizon.

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About Worldwise

Worldwise Family History Consulting helps families uncover, preserve, and share meaningful stories through expert research and thoughtful writing that honors every generation.

Edward Potter is a genealogy-driven family historian whose work transforms scattered records into compelling narratives of long-lost family origins. With a researcher’s precision and a storyteller’s voice, he reveals the people, landscapes, and choices that shaped generations, bringing the past vividly into the present.

Worldwise Family History Consulting’s experience includes conducting family history research in the United States, Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Czechia, Mexico, and Croatia, bringing a comparative and transnational perspective to the study of family history. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, we work with multilingual sources and diverse record traditions to trace families across borders and generations.

Testimonials

My wife and I just sat and read through the entire genealogy you prepared, and I just want to say thank you so much for researching and writing such an eloquent and beautiful testimony to our family history.

We read the story out loud, and we were in tears by the end. What a powerful document to show us our family’s legacy and paint such a vivid picture of what their life was like in Ireland. I cannot thank you enough!

– Kevin and Leah C.

Their careful research and storytelling brought our ancestors to life for our grandchildren.

— Mateo García

I finally understood where we came from, thanks to their thorough, respectful approach.

— Lila Patel

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