Christina Lyons is a personal historian and journalist who combines her skills in research, interviewing, and writing to help clients trace their ancestry and tell their family stories. Christina has more than 34 years of experience as a journalist in the Washington, D.C., area, including as a longtime editor and writer for Congressional Quarterly (now CQ-Roll Call). She has had extensive professional training in personal reflection techniques, autobiography writing, narrative storytelling, and genealogy. Her latest client project, The Nichols Family: An American Story, is a more than 330-page, illustrated book describing 400 years of a family’s history.

Christina’s company is called ByLyons LLC.