Sandy is a New England native who has lived in Maryland since 1963. She spent her professional career in the healthcare field as a clinician, program director, and educator. A longtime interest in family history led her to become certified as a genealogist, and she is nationally known for research, lectures at national conferences, and publications in journals and other genealogy periodicals. Sandy’s interest in the Outer Banks lighthouses culminated in a year of volunteer service in researching keeper descendants for the 2001 Hatteras Keepers Descendants Homecoming, and assisting in the production of the commemorative book Hatteras Keepers: Oral and Family Histories. She continues new research and lectures on a variety of lighthouse topics, such as “Women Lighthouse Keepers of the Civil War,” which has been featured at two national meetings of the conference on Women and the Civil War, and presented to dozens of community groups. Sandy has also served as a consultant researcher for Younger and Associates, creators of the Harbour Lights replicas.