Professional genealogist, speaker, and author

Liv Marit Haakenstad, AG®, AGL™

Liv Marit Haakenstad is an Accredited Genealogist® (AG®) in Norwegian genealogy and an Accredited Genealogist Lecturer™ (AGL™). She also has a master’s in nonfiction writing from USN (University of South-Eastern Norway). Haakenstad started with genealogy at age 12 and has worked with it ever since. She has experience with classic genealogy, heir research, forensic genealogy, and some DNA research. She has also researched for genealogy TV shows and is a RootsTech speaker. Haakenstad also worked on a cold case for Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos). In the Spring of 2025, Liv Marit Haakenstad was a visiting scholar at Bringham Young University in Provo, UT.