Sunny Jane Morton is a genealogy educator, researcher, writer, and editor.
She is the Content Director at Your DNA Guide and a Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine. As of fall 2025, she will be Editor of NGS Magazine; she is a past Editor of Ohio Genealogy News. She is co-author of How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records, co-authored with Harold Henderson, CG, which received a book award from the National Genealogical Society. Her book Story of My Life: A Workbook for Preserving Your Legacy is now in its 2nd edition.
Sunny’s forthcoming book, a guide for researching Catholic nuns and sisters in the United States, received research travel support from the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. She is an instructor for GRIP Genealogy Institute and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy.
Awards and Education
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Research Travel Award 2024, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame
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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
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Winner, National Genealogical Society Newsletter Competition in 2017
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Winner, International Society of Family History Writers & Editors Excellence in Writing Competition: 1st place, Articles, 2012 and 3rd place, Newsletter Editing, 2013
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Double-major undergraduate degrees in History and Humanities, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
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Graduate coursework, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh participant, 2013 and 2017
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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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