Sunny Jane Morton is a genealogy educator. She teaches hobbyist genealogists as a Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine and instructor for Family Tree University. As a faculty member for GRIP Genealogy Institute and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, she instructs advanced and professional-level students. As Content Director at Your DNA Guide, she helps develop genetic genealogy curriculum. She has lectured internationally, throughout the United States, and at the Library of Congress.

Sunny has special interest in U.S. migration, religious and women’s history. As a history student, she abstracted a large collection of 19th-century women’s diaries and was funded for research travel supporting the writing of a biography of a woman who lived along the Mississippi River. She has presented at academic history conferences and published in academic journals. After creating a mini-documentary on Ohio River travel, she was invited by the Indiana Historical Society to contribute to a major exhibition, Rivers, Rails and Roads, in 2023.