ABOUT ME
Introduction
Sunny Jane Morton is a genealogy educator. As a longtime Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine, she teaches everyday genealogists through feature articles and regular columns.

As Content Director at Your DNA Guide, she helps others share their DNA discovery stories and provides content for the curriculum and marketing departments. As author of Story of My Life: A Workbook for Preserving Your Legacy (now in its 2nd edition), she teaches others how to document their own memories.
Sunny has expertise in U.S. record types, particularly church records. She is co-author of How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records, winner of a National Genealogical Society book award, and coordinator of the 2024 church records course at the GRIP Genealogy Institute. In 2024 she was awarded a Research Travel Grant by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism to visit the University of Notre Dame archives as part of research for a forthcoming genealogist’s guide to archives of women religious. She has lectured internationally and at the Library of Congress.