Sunny Jane Morton is a longtime Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine and the Content Director at YourDNAGuide.com. She blogs for FamilySearch, the world’s biggest free genealogy website, and is past Editor of Ohio Genealogy News. She has twice received awards from the National Genealogical Society, most recently for her book How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records, co-authored with Harold Henderson, CG. Her other book, Story of My Life: A Workbook for Preserving Your Legacy, is now in its 2nd edition. She is known for delivering presentations packed with try-this-now strategies, humor, humanity, and plenty of motivating examples and stories.
Additional Awards and Education
- Winner, National Genealogical Society’s Award for Excellence: Methods & Sources Book Competition in 2022 for How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records, co-authored with Harold Henderson, CG
- Winner, National Genealogical Society Newsletter Competition in 2017
- Winner, International Society of Family History Writers & Editors Excellence in Writing Competition: 1st place, Articles, 2012 and 3rd place, Newsletter Editing, 2013
- Double-major undergraduate degrees in History and Humanities, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- Graduate coursework, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh participant, 2013 and 2017
- Participation in professional-level memoir writing group
Personal
- Sunny lives and works in the Cleveland, Ohio area.
- She is married and has 3 children.
Contact
Please email Sunny at sunny@sunnymorton.com for inquiries about speaking presentations, author events, etc.
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