Diane L. Richard
Diane L Richard, Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM), www.mosaicrpm.com, has been a genealogy researcher since 1987 and since 2004 professionally focused on the records of North Carolina and southern states. A regular contributor to Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today, she has authored over 500 articles on genealogy topics. In 2019 Diane published Tracing Your Ancestors African American Research: A Practical Guide, via Moorshead Publications. Since 2016, she has served as editor of the North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS) journal.
As a speaker, Diane 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], and much more. She has appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? (Bryan Cranston episode).
Diane is co-leader of Tar Heel Discoveries, www.tarheeldiscoveries.com, started in 2018, which offers guided North Carolina genealogical research programs providing participants targeted, focused, research assistance leading to new family discoveries. With her children both born in Texas she considers herself an honorary Texan.