Eliza Watson

Eliza Watson is a USA Today bestselling author and genealogist. Her genealogy adventures have inspired two fiction series set in Ireland, Scotland, and England and a nonfiction book, Genealogy Tips & Quips. Eliza has researched hundreds of ancestry lines in these countries. She has contributed articles to several prestigious publications, including Family Tree Magazine, a featured cover story in Crossroads (Utah Genealogical Association), and a three-part series in Irish Roots. She earned a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University and has solved almost 75 unknown parentage cases. In addition to being a genetic genealogist, Eliza does probate research, locating heirs to estates.

Eliza fulfilled her dream of owning a home in Ireland when she and her husband bought a renovated 1887 schoolhouse in her Coffey ancestors' town in 2013. When she isn't tracing her ancestry roots through Ireland or Scotland, she's at home working on her next novel or article, bouncing ideas off her husband, Mark, and her cats, Frankie and Sammy.