"Remember me in the family tree;
my name, my days, my strife.

Then I'll ride upon the wings of time
and live an endless life."

-Linda Goetsch

Bonnie Croteau

Bonnie Croteau is a genealogist with over thirty years of experience researching in the United States and Ireland. She specializes in New England research, lineage society applications, and writing ancestral history. Bonnie is the Chair of the Volunteer Genealogist Committee of the Piestewa Peak Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Treasurer and Board member of the Merrimack Valley Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists. She started Beyond the Tree Genealogy to share her education and genealogy projects, and family genealogy.

Bonnie holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration from Suffolk University. She is retired from a rewarding nursing career, during which she specialized in hospice and palliative care, healthcare information systems, and medical quality improvement.

Her professional affiliations include:

Association of Professional Genealogists

New England Association of Professional Genealogists

Massachusetts Society of Genealogists

New England Historical Genealogical Society

National Genealogical Society

Daughters of the American Revolution

General Society of Mayflower Descendants

The Nickerson Family Association

Maine Genealogical Society

New Hampshire Society of Genealogists