- Conducted research for popular international TV-series such as “Who do you think you are?” Australia, “Ancestors in the Attic” Canada and “Das Geheimnis meiner Familie/ The secret of my family” Germany
- Partner of BallinStadt emigration museum in Hamburg and Ellis Island in New York
- 10 years in New York from 1991 - 2001
- Memberships include the Association of professional German Genealogists, American Council on Germany in New York as well as various national and international genealogical societies