Paul K. Graham is a professional genealogist specializing in genealogical problem solving among Southern families. He works as a Genealogist and Case Manager at ProGenealogists, a division of Ancestry.com. He graduated with a master’s degree in Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University and holds a professional certificate in geographic information systems.
He moved to Salt Lake City in 2011 after calling Georgia his home since 1989. His childhood was spent in western North Carolina. He is a graduate of the George Washington University and began his career as a title examiner in Georgia, gaining valuable knowledge of property and probate law and records. He has performed genealogical and historical research for clients since 2004.
Paul researched the ancestry of actor-comedian Chris Tucker, an Atlanta native, for the television series African American Lives, which first aired on PBS in February 2006. In 2007 he researched the childhood history and family secrets of Marine Corps Lieutenant General Victor Krulak (dec.) for biography Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine, by author Robert Coram.
Paul is the author of Georgia Land Lottery Research (published by the Georgia Genealogical Society), co-author of Research in Georgia (part of the National Genealogical Society’s “Research in the States” series), and compiler of Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts. In 2004 and 2005 he abstracted and compiled records of the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery in two volumes. He has published a number of articles in the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly and his “A Blue Ridge Family for Alsaph Briggs Barker” was published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (June 2010).
In December 2005, the Georgia Genealogical Society presenting Paul an award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Genealogy” for his 1805 land lottery publications.
Paul’s personal research interests include historic surveys and land use, and the post-Civil War history of southern cities and their people.