Researchers For Hire

If you would like research assistance beyond what the Archives of Manitoba has been able to provide, please consult the list of researchers for hire below. The people listed below have indicated their willingness to do research in the holdings of the Archives of Manitoba on a fee-for-service basis. These researchers are not employed by or accredited by the Archives of Manitoba and the Archives is not able to answer questions about their availability, services or charges.

If you are a researcher and would like your contact information to be included on, updated in or removed from this list, please send your request to archiveswebmaster@gov.mb.ca.

Contact Information

Research Areas

Lisa C. Bobbie, M.A.
(204) 997-3626
lbobbie@northrootsresearch.ca
North Roots Research
Family research and genealogy; First Nation and Métis ancestry; Fur Trade; Land claims; Social, cultural, and political history; Western Canada and Ontario; Traditional Knowledge and mapping
Bonnie Bridge
bridgeb@shaw.ca
Genealogy; urban and rural Manitoba history, baptisms, marriages, burials, homestead applications, directories, censuses, wills, obituaries, newspaper items from the 1870s to the present
Frankie Davis
American Ancestors website
(202) 568-4557
Métis and First Nations genealogy
Paul Sash Dumont
sashpast@gmail.com
Paul Sash Dumont Genealogy Research
Research of Red River Métis, First Nation, French Canadian, and Mennonite ancestry. Document research for birth/baptisms, marriages, death/burials, estate records. Ancestry research for Treaty (“status”) reinstatement.
Nathan Kramer
nathan_kramer@outlook.com
Government and Private Sector Archives research: government records, court files (including estate, divorce, and criminal), school records, homestead files, parish files, and municipal records collections. Legislative Library resources: directories, newspaper searches, and obituaries.
Laura Lamont
Lauralamont9@gmail.com
History of science, medicine, and technology; urban history, architectural history, biography and cartography. Bilingual, English and French.
Jessica Landry
info@kindredconnectionsgen.com
Genealogy and family history research; specializing in Manitoba census records, vital records, city directories, newspapers, probate records, parish records, land records, local history, adoption, etc.
Murray Peterson
murraypeterson61@gmail.com
Western Canadian and North-Western Ontario history; Manitoba and Winnipeg history (individual history, family history, social history, urban history, rural history, and history of real estate, architecture, economics, railways; agriculture, institutions, corporations & photographs); First Nations and Métis history (background treaty claims research)
Bev Pike
bevpike1@icloud.com
Natural history, women’s history, government records research, private records research, arts and museum studies, environmental movements, naturalist movements
Randy R. Rostecki
(204) 582-4153
1158 Redwood Avenue
Winnipeg, MB  R2X 0Y6
Winnipeg and Manitoba history (rural history, urban history, and history of architecture, real estate & automotives)
Kenton Storey, PhD (history)
(204) 269 2682
kentonstorey@yahoo.com
Hudson’s Bay Company Archives; Western Canadian history; First Nations Peoples; Treaty-Making; Legal Research; 19th Century Print Culture; Historical Newspapers; Government and Private Records.
Dusty van der Steen
RuralRootsGenealogy.com
(204) 436-2616
ruralrootsgenealogyservices@gmail.com
Family genealogy researcher, experienced in Manitoba, Ontario, Canada, US and England research but will tackle any project.

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