Lorraine is a paralegal, professional genealogist, and real estate referral agent. She began searching the details of her family history at a young age and has since discovered connections nationwide and throughout Europe. She has also been given the opportunity to discover a missing heir whose name was misspelled in a will and has uncovered a mystery within her own family which brought together previously unknown first-cousins. With the abundance of information, Legacy Roots' website was born in 2003 as a personal website. (Now Legacy Roots Family)

Career-wise Lorraine has primarily worked directly for chief counsels in procurement law & patent law divisions of federal government agencies as well as directly for general counsel in the private financial sector. Aside from holding an ABA approved Paralegal degree and BA in Jurisprudence, Lorraine is a real estate referral agent.

After hearing numerous stories from historic property owners concerned about the need for educated agents in the unique market of historic properties, Lorraine developed Historic NJ Homes.com, a source for historic property buyers and sellers in New Jersey to connect with knowledgeable agents in the unique market.   

As a native New Yorker with a love for the city, Lorraine extended the same idea of Historic NJ Homes to New York by developing New York House Histories. Integrating genealogy and real estate along with using the research skills developed as a paralegal, Lorraine has developed a unique integration of research, real estate and genealogy to produce personalized building biographies called house histories.

In 2011, Lorraine took the Legacy Roots name and developed it into an L.L.C. in order to extend the reach of the company and to utilize the skills of other professionals. Understanding that the job market is difficult in today's economy, Lorraine's plan for the future of Legacy Roots, L.L.C. is to offer an avenue of employment to those who normally freelance in the areas of legal, genealogical, historical, and biographical research and  to give clients the best experts in the field. 

• Society of Architectural Historians
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Preservation New Jersey
• Genealogical Society of New Jersey
• New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
• Ellis Island Foundation
• National Genealogical Society
• Municipal Art Society of New York 
• Association of Professional Genealogists
• Historic District Council
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Paralegal Association of New Jersey
• New York City Paralegal Association, Inc.