Professional genealogist

Liv Birgit Christensen

Liv Birgit Christensen is a Norwegian. Her education is in business administration, and she has worked in banking most of her life, honing her analytical skills. She has been interested in genealogy for more than 25 years. When she retired, she continued working with her genealogy interest. She has collaborated with DearMyrtle (the American genealogist Pat Richley-Erickson) and has participated in many of her “Mondays with Myrt” sessions on Norwegian genealogy. Liv Birgit has presented other webinars and held lectures in the United States, Great Britain and Norway. She has organized several Heritage travels for clients and do client work.
She has written in Norwegian genealogy magazines and local historical periodicals. In 2023 she published Exploring Norwegian Genealogy together with Margaret H. Strand. A guide in English on how to do Norwegian genealogy, explaining and showing how to use online sources. Liv Birgit takes an interest in her own family history and in establishing provenance of family heirlooms, identifying persons and places in photographs, and in discovering DNA proof of lineage. She has solved several DNA cases among them “father unknown.” Liv Birgit is especially interested in Oppdal, Trøndelag, the place her grandfather was born and where she has spent a lot of time in the family cottage. She is the mother of two adult children and enjoys staying in her apartment in the south of France, when possible.