Being a resident of Florida, I was very fortunate to have Kevin Clement do genealogical research for me in Baltimore County, MD. I was very impressed with Kevin’s extensive knowledge on all aspects of genealogical research. Kevin was very detailed in explaining his findings, furnishing me copies and providing the source information. I also appreciated his excellent explanations of the wills and deeds that he located on my family. Through his research Kevin was able to uncover another ancestral generation that I did not expect to find in this country. I was also quite impressed with the urgency he put on my requests and the promptness of his replies.

Kevin’s research on my family was exemplary. I will not hesitate to hire Kevin for future genealogical research and I would definitely recommend him to my friends and fellow amateur genealogists.

Betty Lou Michelman, Fort Myers Beach, FL

Dear Kevin:

It is with great pleasure that I review the service and help you provided me in 2005 while you were at the Historical Society of Baltimore County.

I contacted the Society and ended up with you, fortunately. My initial search was focused on finding the high school in 1938 that my birth mother attended with the objective of learning who her classmates were.  Possibly one of them was my birth father as they were the same age, 16, when I was born in 1939.  Besides researching schools, we looked into social registers, the linage of Arunah Shepardson Abell, founder of the Baltimore Sun, the George W. Abell summer home named Mary's Meadows, old maps and tax records and information on the Homer family and Mary Abell's great aunt. It appeared to me that your efforts on my behalf were way beyond what one might have expected from a researcher at a historical society.

This work took place in early 2005 so Lynn and I decided to take a trip to the Baltimore area to see Mary's Meadows, to meet with you and to pick up year books from the Eastern High School that you had put me onto. So in May 2005 we traveled to Baltimore and went to Cockeysville to see Mary's Meadows. It turned out to be a beautiful place, 110 acres of rolling hills in horse country going through a restoration with the new owners. This is where Mary did her riding and where I believe I was born.  It was suggested we meet the previous owner just down the road, Andy MacKenzie. Andy provided old pictures of the home and tales of George Abell.  She put us in touch with an Abell relative, Charles Fenwick. Charles not only provided valuable information but introduced us to Gill Fenwick and Mike Pascal. It turns out that Mike's brother, Louie, had been engaged to my mother.  Anyway, upon meeting Mike his first words were, "I know who your father is."  I had been dreading the task of trying to track down classmates, one by one of my mother so here was a solid break. The last name of my father, Mike said, was White and he had a building block business.  From the Cradle Society of Evanston, where I was adopted, information provided by my birth mother, mentioned that my paternal grandfather was a successful businessman.

That is when we came to you again Kevin, visiting with you at the Historical Society.  You quickly tracked down a businessman in Towson who had a block manufacturing business in the late 30's, and was named White. Then you went to the 1930 Census and found that he had three sons. Their dates of birth on the Census yielded one candidate, Stewart White, the same age of my mother. You then searched and found an obituary on one of the sons, an older brother.  The obituary, which had a picture that looked strikingly similar to my features, gave us two locations for Stewart White, N. Carolina and Florida, as well as the names of other relatives who were local to the Baltimore area. Here again you went way beyond the ordinary call of duty by making phone calls to the local relatives to help me track down the whereabouts of Stewart White.

All this is bitter sweet to me Kevin.  I'm thrilled to have found Stewart White, alive and well and living in Florida and to have met him and his sons and daughter in Maryland.  But I cannot stop the regret that I did not get a professional researcher involved early on. After 20 plus years of looking for my birth mother after receiving my adoption papers, it took a professional in 2002 only 20 minutes, with my sitting by their side, to get a solid hit on my birth mother's location. Unfortunately, she had passed one year before. So my advice to anyone wanting to find someone based on my experience at searching is three fold:
1 get professional help sooner rather than later
2 follow every lead, explore every detail, exhaust every possibility to it's conclusion
3 the more one does the more chance there will be for a lead  to make your search a success

Kevin, it was a real pleasure working with someone who is so dedicated to his work and helping people. Best of success in your venture.
Thank you, John

John R. Baker
Bellevue, WA