I have done research for myself ever since then. One day in 1990 I started tacing foals of a Mare of the Conn's, had reached as far as I could go through Stud Book 1972. Of course I wanted more, but could not find any newer stud books, THEN I called the Arabian Horse Trust to see if they knew where I could find books starting with 1973, low and behold they had what I needed. In the course of our conversation Judy Young said I should be working with the Trust, I thought she was just carrying on a conversation, but I was wrong, as three days later she called saying "her superiors wanted to know if I would be interested in working with The Trust, that did it, and have been doing work for the public since then. I really did not think anything would happen even then, but one day came my first customer from Canada. I don't know who was the most excited, my husband or myself.
I'd say most of my customers come from word of mouth.

I still get a thrill with every new customer, and have to stop whatever I am doing to see who what or where the horse comes from, if I ever lose this thrill, then I will retire. I have scrapbooks of photos that I took, magazine by the hundreds where I obtain photos, and information, Stud books from Volume 5 until discontinued, and now I use the Datasource from the Arabian Horse Registry. With my pedigree work I supply biographies, and pictures that I may have. I only charge for Pedigree work, not for the BIOS or pictures, only my time in finding them if ordered separately."

Photo taken and hand colored by Betty Childress.