Diane L. Richard, MEng, MBA

Diane L Richard, Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM), www.mosaicrpm.com, has been doing genealogy research since 1987 and, since 2004, professionally focused on the records of North Carolina and southern states, the enslaved, female ancestors, and more. She regularly contributed to Internet Genealogy (2006-2023). She has authored over 600 articles on genealogy topics. In 2019, she published Tracing Your Ancestors -- African American Research: A Practical Guide via Moorshead Publications. Since 2016, she has been editor of the North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS) journal.

As a speaker, she has delivered webinars and in-person talks about the availability and richness of records documenting southerners, pursuing formerly enslaved ancestors and their descendants, genealogical research tips, techniques, tools, and strategies, under-utilized resource collections [online and on-the-ground], female ancestors, and much more. She has appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? (Bryan Cranston episode).

She is co-owner of GenWebinars, www.genwebinars.com, providing direct-to-consumer webinar programs, co-leader of Tar Heel Discoveries, www.tarheeldiscoveries.com, offering guided North Carolina genealogical research programs providing participants targeted, focused research assistance leading to new family discoveries, and she is VP of Historical Records Online (NCHRO), http://nchistoricalrecords.org/, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public access to high-quality images of original records and other related information applicable to researching North Carolina history and genealogy.