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Sunny Jane Morton lives near Cleveland, Ohio. She is a career writer and editor whose first publication in an academic journal appeared while she was still an undergraduate and whose first job out of school was as an editor in a medical laboratory. Morton is past editor of Ohio Genealogy News and co-author of How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records; for both roles, she received NGS awards. She is content director at Your DNA Guide and a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine.