Background

Susan was born into a Jewish family in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1950. She attended private sch "The genealogy whisperer?" ool, Isidore Newman, through the 8th grade, choosing to go to public school for the 9th - 12th grades. During school, Susan was active in sports, played on the Junior Varsity Volleyball team and was an avid tennis player and skier until an accident on the ski slopes in 1980 changed all that.

Susan graduated from Loyola University, New Orleans with a BA degree in Radio/TV/Film and Marketing Communications. She participated in many workshops during her college days on Religious Communications and her first job was in the Television and Film Department at M.D. Anderson Hospital.

Perhaps a serial entrepreneur at heart, Susan started her own media production company, Kingdom Productions, Inc. in Houston, which was one of the first to become involved in the new technology of computer graphics and slide imaging in 1986. After the downfall in the oil industry in the late 1980's, Susan went into the first of many early retirements where she dabbled in Computer Graphics Consulting and the Travel Industry.

It was latter years of Kingdom Productions where Susan's obsession with her own genealogy was the catalyst for starting the first Bulletin Board service for Jewish genealogy, known today throughout the world as JewishGen. During the early 1990's through 2008 Susan guided JewishGen into one of the most reknown social networking institutions on the Internet. As the Founder and President of JewishGen, Susan forged new ground using the Internet as a means to connect and re-connect Jewish families separated by the Holocaust. She created projects and services that are all still in existence today. One of the most intriguing projects was the development of numerous databases for those researching their Jewish heritage. It was Susan's idea from the onset that JewishGen should be established as a non-profit and was built on the spirit of sharing information.

After a near death experience resulting from a surgical procedure in January, 2007, Susan became more in touch with her intuitive skills and overwhelmed with a new calling to work with others to assist them in fulfilling their personal quest for answers about their own family histories.

Since hanging out her shingle, Susan has assisted hundreds of people in learning more about their past. Using DNA testing, standard genealogical modalities, healing and her intuitive skills, Susan has found that no matter what the need, whether it be solving a murder mystery, connecting families separated by the Holocaust or family schisms or helping people understand who they are and why they feel the way they do, the outcomes are almost all the same. There is a healing that takes place within our core once we are able to accept, understand and forgive.

As a Radio Personality, Susan has hosted her own show "Where genealogy and spirit connect" since 2009, where she has interviewed guests from both the genealogical and spiritual communities to include: Megan Smolenyak, Ancestry.com, Footnote.com, Genie.com, Family Tree DNA, Arthur Kurzweil, Steve Luxemburg, John Kimmey, Althea Gray, Dr. Jude Currivan, Denise Linn, Michelle Karen, Althea Gray, Dr. Roger Woolger, Summer McStravick, Venus Andrecht, Melissa Frei, Allison Baughman, Spirit Artist Rita Berkowitz along with a host of others.

Although Susan can remember her early experiences of connecting with her grandfather soon after his passing at age 5, has been an empath most of her life and scared herself silly doing readings back in the mid-1970's, Susan decided to hone these skills into her new line of work and has been studying under some well known intuitives and mediums. Combining her 30 years of experience as a genealogist and her lifelong intuitive skills is the focus of her current work.

Susan also shares her thoughts as a Genealogy Columnist for The Examiner.

In addition to genealogy and spirituality, Susan loves to be on the water, loves black and white spotted puppy dogs, is a musician playing Steel Pans and Guitar, a computer "geek" and all around eclectic sort of a free spirit.