Professional historian, researcher, author

Rebecca Ellefsen

Rebecca Ellefsen is a professional historian, researcher, and author. She is an accomplished international speaker using humor in her presentations to teach of the Ship Brooklyn pioneers of 1846 and their extraordinary journey.

Through almost four decades sharing the Brooklyn story, Rebecca encourages all around her to gather and cherish their own family history.

Born in the Bay Area, as a fifth-generation Californian, Rebecca highly values preserving and sharing the woven stories of courage of those that established the west. You will often find her walking the streets of San Francisco giving Church Pioneer History Tours.

She is an alum of Brigham Young University with a focus on Bay Area and California History. She and her husband Danny have raised four daughters and added seventeen grandchildren and a great-grandchild to their story.