"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 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