Budget Genealogy offers professional genealogical services at an affordable cost
11/28/2025
The ultimate genealogy gift is HALF OFF this weekend only.
Black Friday + Cyber Monday Mega Deal 🎁
📚 Legacy Book — 50% OFF
Turn your family history into a custom heirloom filled with stories, photos, maps & memories.
⏳ Lowest price of the year — ends Monday at midnight.
DM “LEGACY” to reserve your book!
11/28/2025
The ultimate genealogy gift is HALF OFF this weekend only.
Black Friday + Cyber Monday Mega Deal 🎁
📚 Legacy Book — 50% OFF
Turn your family history into a custom heirloom filled with stories, photos, maps & memories.
⏳ Lowest price of the year — ends Monday at midnight.
DM “LEGACY” to reserve your book!
11/28/2025
20 hours. Multiple generations. 30% OFF. Limited Black Friday + Cyber Monday Mega Sale!
🌿 Heritage Project — 30% OFF
20 hours of deep genealogy research: multiple generations, detailed reports, and family tree updates.
⏳ Lowest price of the year — DM to reserve your spot!
11/28/2025
20 hours. Multiple generations. 30% OFF. Limited Black Friday + Cyber Monday Mega Sale!
🌿 Heritage Project — 30% OFF
20 hours of deep genealogy research: multiple generations, detailed reports, and family tree updates.
⏳ Lowest price of the year — DM to reserve your spot!
11/28/2025
My biggest genealogy sale of the year starts NOW!
Black Friday is here — and these are my lowest genealogy prices of the year:
🔎 Deep Dive – 30% OFF
🌿 Heritage Project – 30% OFF
📖 Legacy Book – 50% OFF
Perfect holiday gift. Limited spots. Sale ends Monday at midnight.
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11/28/2025
My biggest genealogy sale of the year starts NOW! Black Friday is here — and these are my lowest genealogy prices of the year:
🔎 Deep Dive – 30% OFF
🌿 Heritage Project – 30% OFF
📖 Legacy Book – 50% OFF Perfect holiday gift. Limited spots. Sale ends Monday at midnight. DM to claim your package.
11/27/2025
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11/27/2025
✨ A Saturday stroll turned into a treasure hunt…on an afternoon at the Geneva Antique Market...
I wandered down to the lower level of the Berry House and discovered one of Geneva’s most charming hidden gems—the Geneva Antique Market. Established in 1990, this boutique-style market is made up of rooms filled with antiques and collectibles. 🪞
Every piece is more than 25 years old, so the moment you step inside, you’re surrounded by true pieces of the past—vintage toys, pottery, jewelry, vinyl records, furniture, and all the little things that remind you of simpler times. ⏳️
But the treasure that found me was a small, unassuming hidden collection of antique photographs. Faces with no names. Families with no written history. Moments captured in time ended up right in my hands. There’s something sacred about holding a photograph someone once cherished—a reminder of how stories can be lost, and how meaningful it can be to try to preserve them. 🖼
I brought these forgotten faces home, and now I’m on a new adventure: trying to uncover who these individuals were, and the families they might have belonged to. It feels like opening a mystery box from another century.
If you’ve never visited the Geneva Antique Market, I highly recommend it. Go browse, wander, reminisce… and let something unexpected find you. You never know what piece of history you might walk out with.
11/26/2025
Old treasures, forgotten stories, and a glimpse into Geneva's past... I walked into the and found photos and antiques that make me wonder about the families who once owned them and faces lost in time.
11/25/2025
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My grandmother Lydia passed away in 2005 in her Bronx apt. While my family and I were sorting through her belongings, I realized how much I didn’t know about her life and family. I remember sitting beside her going through old family albums. She shared stories in her native tongue, Spanish, as we looked at each picture. So sadly, because I am not fluent in the language I felt what she had shared with me was utterly lost.
Or was it?
Looking back I think of her imparting a special blessing to me, one that she knew I would one day delve into, welcome and walk in a path dedicated to preserving our family history. Her Bible ...was the starting point. Of all my grandmother’s belongings that I could choose to bring back with me, what drew me most was her worn, black leather-bound bible and another religious book. Hidden inside was a funeral card with a name I had never heard of, William Horacio Vargas. William I learned was her father, my great grandfather. The first clue.
Months later... after I had forgotten about the other religious book, on a particular day I felt drawn to it, pulled. When I opened it up, numbers were written across on the first page. “Why did she write these numbers down?” I thought to myself.
With both of my grandparents gone and no known family history, I was surprised to learn the mystery numbers were their social security IDs which then led to their applications. The applications gave their full names, birth-dates and birth places, both parents names and also where they were from and even more vital information. The second clue.
This was key to the beginning of my genealogy quest.
It all started with my own family, building our tree, one branch at a time. Every clue led to new discoveries and family lines. Connections with lost family. Oral stories considered myth or legend proven reality! A rich and colorful family history and a few ancestors remaining hidden waiting to be discovered. There’s an Indian princesses and the ancestors who met Columbus on the shore. Young Spanish maidens and a bishop knighted by the Queen of Spain. French settlers in New Orleans. The Jews who fled Spain in 1492. The President of Venezuela and his family who fled to Puerto Rico. The African slaves and highly suspect white slaves too. There are stories of pirates, story-tellers and writers, witch doctors, the wealthy and prominent settlers falling in love with the unaccepted undesirable poor, family dramas and political wars. And it doesn’t end.
During my years researching my own family history, I joined a local genealogy group. Soon after, I was asked to lead the group and it was then that I met my genealogy partner, Tom Kanagie. Together we co-founded Genealogy Detectives. Through Genealogy Detectives is where I started Budget Genealogy and had my first client. Since then I have completed over 25 genealogy cases and managed several of my clients’ DNA accounts; connecting them to their genetic family.
Fast forward 14 years later... I am ready to take this journey to the next level. Trusting God every step of the way moving forward. I invite you to partner with me as our ancestors resurface from the dusty old pages, stored in a web covered chest, forgotten in musty basements and attics... waiting silently to be found... for their stories to be told and their lines to flow once again in us, through us, down into the ages yet to come.
