About Me

Bonnie Jeanne Dunnuck Glotfelty was my grandmother. She inspired my parents and me to learn about our roots and to ensure our ancestors are remembered. By finding their stories, we enable them to find new life through their descendants. Grandma Bonnie passed away in 2009, and I consider it an honor to continue what she started.

I am an English and Multilingual Learner (formerly known as ESOL) teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education from the College of William and Mary, and then a Master of Arts in Linguistics and graduate certificate in TESOL from the University of South Carolina. After graduate school, I moved to Krakow, Poland, where I taught in the Department of English Philology and Applied Linguistics at Tischner European University on a Fulbright grant.

While teaching full time, I completed the ProGen Study Group Program (I was a member of ProGen38) and then began coursework at the University of Strathclyde. In September 2024, I finished my Strathclyde studies by earning a Masters of Science in Genealogical, Palaeographic, and Heraldic Studies with Distinction. My thesis analyzed the lives of over 600 Iwonicz and Korczyna immigrants who came to the United States at the turn of the 20th century in terms of their pre-emigration lives and families, their journeys, and how they fared once in the US. In addition to being a Qualified Genealogist, I am member of the National Genealogical Society and the Association of Professional Genealogists, I was also a co-editor of the Fairfax Genealogical Society newsletter for three years, during which time we won the 2023 National Genealogical Society's small society newsletter competition.

I have done client work including new research; writing reports and family narratives; revising, editing, and formatting manuscripts; and transcribing old records in the semi-diplomatic style. I am conversational in German and Polish and have done research at libraries, archives, and parishes in the USA, England, and Poland.

My own ancestry is primarily Polish and English, along with French, Swiss, German, Irish, and Scottish. My ancestors immigrated to the United States between 1620 (John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, John Tilley, and Joan Hurst Tilley on the Mayflower) and 1914 (my great-grandmother Marianna Kowalska Gwiazdowska, who came from Rydzyn, Mazowieckie, Poland).

-- Stephanie Glotfelty (Email: BonnieGenealogist@gmail.com; Blog: https://bonniegenealogy.blog/)