I graduated from North Surry High School in 1978 andSurry Community College in 1980, with a two year degree in accounting and then worked doing bookkeeping in different offices for the next ten years. I worked in the payroll office at Oakdale Knitting and in the accounting office at Form-Pak, Inc. in Holly Springs. I also worked for Lettie Woodruff and Sheree Barnard at Woodruff Accounting Agency.

In 1996, I started working for the Carroll County Circuit Court's Clerk's Office as an archivist. Carolyn Honeycutt, county clerk, received a couple of grants from the Library of Virginia to flat-fold, repair and computer index the Chancery Papers and Marriage Records from 1842 thru 1913. That was the most interesting job I ever had. I think it was made for me, since I love genealogy so much.

I got interested in family history and joined the Surry County Genealogical Assoc. and the Carroll County Historical Society