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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,' 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 Brigham Young University.

Nathan's twenty years of expertise extends to the British Isles, the former British Empire, Central America, North America, South America, and Southwestern Europe and he regularly worked with clients whose roots reached into these parts of the world. He specializes in tracing American immigrants' origins and using DNA evidence to solve brick wall problems. His own DNA matches Murphys whose ancestors lived in or near County Cork, Ireland and has also learned, through 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 research in many US and European archives.

Nathan served a term as a Commissioner for the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen). He has also 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.