The people who find your story
are the ones who walk it with you.
Genesis Legacy Journeys is family-run by intention, not by accident. The same hands that sit in the archives plan your days and host you on the ground. Nothing is handed off to a call center or a coach tour. It is personal because that is the only way it works.
Our story.
It started at a kitchen table, watching my aunt Donna.
Long before any of this was online, she spent hours — days, months — bent over microfilm and index cards, libraries and charts, tracing our family back by hand. I was just a boy, but I never forgot it. Something about seeing where we came from stayed with me.
About fifteen years ago, living in North Dakota, it finally caught me. I dove into the research myself, and hired a genealogist who traced my mother's line back generation after generation, further than I ever imagined. But it was my father's side — the side with the least to go on — that pulled at me hardest.
My grandfather had a checkered past. He left home as a boy and changed his name, and for years a whole branch of our heritage went dark with him. Then I learned that in 1976, two years before I was born, the Mason family was reunited with the Lundy clan at a reunion in Powell River. When I finally met my Lundy family myself in 2015, I came home unable to let it go. I had to find the way back to Ireland.
I've spent the better part of two decades on it since — the records, the registries, the churches, letters sent across the ocean — and for a long time I kept hitting the same wall. But the tools of today are extraordinary. I may not have knocked the wall down, but I traced the steps right up to it: the parish, the townland, the exact places our story is waiting to be found.
That's where Genesis Legacy Journeys was born. Genesis, for the beginning. Legacy, for everything our ancestors left behind. Because when you know where you came from, you understand your purpose — who you are, and why you're here.
This was never meant to be a binder of paper slid across a desk. I learned that the hard way once — I paid for research and got knowledge, but no relationship to it. This is the opposite. It's about standing on the ground your people walked, bringing your kids, stepping into your ancestors' shoes and feeling the journey that brought you here.
And none of it stands without Amy. My wife, my companion, my partner in all of it — she keeps us organized, keeps me on track, keeps us moving. She may leave the technology to me, but she is the rock the whole thing rests on.
We started with our own family. We'd be honored to walk yours home.
— Tyler & Amy Mason
We hold ourselves to the standard the profession measures by.
A family historian isn't a title you buy — it's a way of working. We research to the Genealogical Proof Standard, the same rigor accredited genealogists are held to: an exhaustive search, complete and accurate source citations, careful analysis, conflicts resolved rather than ignored, and a written conclusion you can stand behind. When we tell you a name, a townland, a year — we can show you exactly how we know.
That is the difference between a tidy chart and a true story. Anyone can hand you a tree. We hand you the proof underneath it.
Modern resources. Old-world care.
We use every resource available to a serious research practice — tools and archives most genealogists will never touch — to search further and faster than a single researcher ever could. But every finding is reviewed by a person, traced to a real source, and held to the Genealogical Proof Standard before it reaches you. That is what lets us go deeper than anyone else, and why we can say, with confidence, that we do this better. It comes at a price. It should.
The family who walks it with you.
From the first conversation to the last evening around the table in Ireland, you are with the same people the whole way through.
Tyler has chased his own family's roots for the better part of two decades — from late nights on FamilySearch to letters sent across the ocean to the townlands of Ireland. He founded Genesis Legacy Journeys to give other families the homecoming he spent years searching for, and he does the deep research himself.
Amy is the steady hand behind everything — the organization, the planning, the follow-through that turns research into a journey that actually happens. She keeps families cared for from the first conversation to the last evening in Ireland, and she is, in Tyler's words, the rock the whole thing rests on.
Let's find your ground.
Tell us your family's name and the question that matters most. We'll take it from there.