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= Nathan W. Murphy, MA, Accredited Genealogist =

Areas of Expertise:

 * Southern United States
 * England
 * Colonial Immigration
 * Nineteenth-century Immigration
 * DNA
 * Romance Languages

Bio:
Nathan W. Murphy, MA, AG, is a United States and Canada Reference Consultant at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. His interest in the topic piqued at age eight. Before coming on board at the 'Mecca' in 2010, he received a BA in Family History and Genealogy from Brigham Young University, completed an internship in London studying emigration sources through the Immigrant Ancestors Project, and graduated with distinction from the MA programme in English Local History at the University of Leicester in England. He worked four years as a professional researcher and marketing director for Price and Associates Genealogical Services, where he gained 6000 hours of professional research experience, and is currently pursuing a PhD.

During his studies, Nathan acted as a research assistant to six professors. His graduate studies have focused on tracing the origins and fates of English men, women, and children who migrated to Colonial America, particularly indentured servants and transported convicts.

At this stage in his career, he has been awarded the title Accredited Genealogist for the Mid-South United States, Gulf-South United States, and England and has lectured at several national and international conferences. In 2007, he received the prestigious Young Family Historian of the Year Award from the Center for Family History and Genealogy at BYU.

Nathan's twenty years of expertise extends to the British Isles, the former British Empire, Central America, North America, South America, and Southwestern Europe. He regularly worked with clients whose roots reached back into these parts of the world. He is passionate about tracing immigrant origins and promoting DNA. His own DNA, and hence his Colonial Southern Murphy's DNA, matches Murphys from County Cork, Ireland. Nathan has also learned, using this technique, that two of his other Colonial Southern ancestors originated in Cornwall and Devon England. His foreign language training includes: Early Modern English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Welsh and he has conducted onsite research in many American and European archives.

Nathan served a term as a Commissioner for the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen). He answered questions at one of the "Ask the Experts" desks at London's 2009 ''Who Do You Think You Are? Live! ''event. He has published articles in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Genealogists' Magazine (London), The American Genealogist, and the Federation of East European Family History Societies’ Journal. His knowledge has been solicited by BYU's The Generation Project and PBS's The History Detectives.

Some of his projects include:

1. Immigrant Servants Database

2. Expert Links: English Family History and Genealogy