Heather McLeland-Wieser has been a genealogist for over 25 years and a librarian for nearly 16 years.  She joined the staff of the Seattle Public Library as a part-time genealogy librarian 10 years ago and became the manager of the History Travel & Maps Department in 2002. In 2005 Heather completed the process to become a Certified Genealogist.  She says the quest was grueling but very rewarding and she wishes she’d become Certified sooner.  As a genealogist her specialties are early New England, and the watershed of the Ohio River Heather has 2 children, a daughter who is already an accomplished family historian at the age of 14 and a 12 year old son who is looking forward to researching his Russian roots someday.  Her husband tolerates the family obsession as long as Heather remembers to work on his German ancestors from time to time.