Marissa Gardner

Marissa Jean Gardner is a professional genealogist specializing in Germanic and Slavic research, including work with historical handwriting, parish records, and civil registration systems across Central and Eastern Europe. She is a Research Consultant at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, where she builds internal training, develops research resources, and assists patrons with complex genealogical problems. Marissa frequently works with German, Polish, Hungarian, and Russian Empire records and brings a practical, method-based approach to helping researchers gain confidence in foreign-language documents.