Michelle Tucker Chubenko, AG®, AGL™, is accredited in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen) and specializes in the Mid-Atlantic region and Eastern European research. She serves as a Board Member for the Foundation for East European Family History Studies (FEEFHS), a co-coordinator for the “Nashi Predky / Our Ancestors” Family History Group at the Ukrainian History and Education Center (Somerset, New Jersey), and in 2023, coordinated the institute course Researching Your Ancestry in the Crownland of Galicia, Austria-Hungary.

Since 2021, Michelle has hosted a monthly Q&A Zoom session, Have Questions? Get Answers for Research in Galicia, and recently authored a digital publication for genealogists titled Workbook for Research in Galicia, Austria-Hungary. Michelle is a 2025 Continuing Research Grant awardee from the American Society of Genealogists for her project which will focus on researching Austrian Land Cadastre record collections to create a new publication, A Genealogist’s Guide to Austrian Land Cadastres for the Crownland of Galicia.