Therese Fisher is accredited for research in the United States Mid-South Region, Upper South Region and the Gulf South Region. Specializing in the Mid South and Gulf South with on location research. I have been a professional researcher since 1973. I have been a member of ICAPGen since its inception in 1997. I am a licensed private investigator in Mississippi. I have been a forensic genealogist for the Department of the Army and Air Force since 2000. I have compiled nine books on marriages in Virginia and authored a book on murders that occurred along the Rappahannock River using court records and newspaper articles. I am the genealogist who discovered that the first harbor master for the port of Norfolk, VA was buried under a parking lot. My areas of accreditation include the fifteen states that comprised the original South Region ie; Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma. Thanks to my work with the Department of Defense, I have researched in nearly every state in the United States. I have worked on courthouse records and/or in state archives on site in every state in my regions of accreditation except Florida. I was part of the group that organized the Fredericksburg (VA) Regional Genealogical Society.