ABOUT
Research Roots was founded in 2011 by professional genealogist Naomi Leon.
After graduating with a Masters Degree in History from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Naomi worked for several years at a number of London literary, film and television agencies representing authors and filmmakers, before taking up genealogical research full time.
Naomi got the bug for family history by researching her own Eastern European, Jewish migrant ancestry in Britain, America, Israel and France and now focuses most of her time on Jewish genealogy for private clients. To this day, her experience of researching her own family story informs much of her work.
Through Research Roots, Naomi is able to indulge her drive to root out answers to the most seemingly obscure of genealogical questions, and give others the benefit of her passion and expertise.
Naomi is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), an Associate member of the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA) , a mentor to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (JGSGB), a member of the Society of Genealogists (SoG) and Sussex Family History Group (SFHG).
She is currently leading a project to digitise Jewish community records in Brighton & Hove. She also volunteers as Lodz Area Coordinator for Jewish Records Indexing-Poland (JRI-Poland) and as JRI-Poland’s Town Leader for her ancestral towns of Aleksandrow Lodzki, Rawa Mazowiecka and Glowno.
She has worked on the UK television series ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ and is a specialist researcher for Ancestry ProGenealogists. In 2017 she was one of the lead genealogists on the British television series ‘The Secrets In My Family’, sponsored by Ancestry and broadcast on W.
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“The things you are passionate about are not random. They are your calling.”
— Fabienne Frederickson