Meet our founder, Dave Bouchard.

Dave started Root & Quill after researching his own family's history and turning it into a hardcover set.

Along the way he found he loved every part of the work, from reading old parish registers to piecing together a family from a single census line and writing it all into a story worth passing down.

Dave served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, and his career since has been about following a process carefully and documenting every step, so you can always see where each conclusion came from. He also holds three master’s degrees and has taught and spoken to groups for years, which helps us explain what we find in plain language. We bring all of that to your family’s story.

We're based in the Granby, Connecticut area and we welcome families from across the U.S. Most of our research is done through digitized archives, so your ancestors don't need to have come from New England for us to find them.