She works on forensic cases, dual citizenship matters, and uses DNA to break through ancestral brick walls. Melissa is President of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey and Vice President of the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History. Her work has been published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, NGS Magazine, Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, and numerous other publications. She is currently the Program Director for Boston University’s genealogy studies programs and teaches at various genealogy institutes nationwide.