You've done the therapy, the breathwork, the meditations...and yet something still feels unsettled.
You yearn to feel rooted.
What if the missing piece isn't another healing modality -- but understanding the story you come from?
Most genealogy focuses on names and dates.
Most spiritual work ignores documented history.
I integrate both.
This is professional genealogical research grounded in historical record — combined with reflective integration to help you understand what your lineage carries.
Most genealogy focuses on names and dates.
Most spiritual work ignores documented history.
I integrate both.
This is professional genealogical research grounded in historical record—combined with reflective integration to help you understand what your lineage carries.
This is for you if...
- You've felt a quiet curiosity about where you come from.
- You wonder about the lives of the people who shaped you — even if you don't know their stories yet.
- You sense there are patterns, strengths, or experiences that began long before you.
- You feel connected to your lineage, but don't yet understand what lives inside it.
- You don't just want a family tree — you want to understand the story it tells.
Origin Initiation is for those who are ready to approach their ancestry with depth and intention — not as a hobby, but as meaningful work.
If you are simply looking to add names to a chart, this is not the right fit.
Most genealogy focuses on names and dates.
Most spiritual work ignores documented history.
I integrate both.
This is professional genealogical research grounded in historical record—combined with reflective integration to help you understand what your lineage carries.
We begin with a focused strategy session designed to clarify what truly matters in your lineage.
During this call, we:
During this call, we:
- Identify your research goals and deeper motivations
- Review what you already know
- Clarify patterns, pulls, or curiosities
- Define a strategic research focus
- Establish realistic scope and priorities
This session ensures the research that follows is intentional, aligned, and goal-driven — not random or scattered.
HOW IT WORKS:
The 3 Phases
PHASE 1
Lineage Strategy Session
I dedicate approximately 2-3 hours to focused professional research and analysis — working strategically within your lineage to:
- Expand and document ancestral branches
- Solve specific curiosities and research questions
- Identify meaningful patterns and relationships
- Assess record availability and long-term potential
- Clarify the strongest pathways forward
This is not surface searching. It is intentional, goal-driven research designed to create real movement in your family history.
PHASE 2
Targeted Professional Research
In our second live session, I walk you through everything uncovered during the research phase — not just what was found, but what it means.
Together, we:
Together, we:
- Review documented discoveries and expanded branches
- Clarify newly uncovered relationships and patterns
- Contextualize your ancestors within their historical realities
- Identify the strongest next strategic move
- Outline a personalized research roadmap
You leave knowing exactly where you stand and how to move forward.
If desired, we close with a guided integration practice — helping you reflect on what has emerged and recognize the resilience, strength, and continuity within your lineage.
PHASE 3
Findings, Roadmap + Guided Integration
After your Origin Initiation, you will:
- Know exactly where your lineage invites deeper exploration.
- Understand some of the historical forces, migrations, resilience, and realities that shaped your family.
- Have documented progress — not just conversation — reflected in your family tree.
- Leave with a strategic roadmap instead of scattered curiosity.
- Stand differently in your own story, recognizing that you are the continuation of something larger.
You will not leave guessing.
You will leave grounded.
Origin Initiation is the starting point.
From here, you may choose:
Your Origin Story
Deep multi-generation research uncovering the full arc of your lineage.
Tailored Lineage Discovery
Ongoing monthly professional research support.
Or continue independently with confidence.
Origin Initiation ensures whatever you choose next is informed and intentional.
Hi, I'm Megan Hillyer
For the past five years, I have helped individuals and families uncover the stories of their ancestors — not simply to expand a family tree, but to understand who they are within it.
I am a professional genealogist with a degree in Family History Research, trained to navigate historical records, migration patterns, and generational context with precision and rigor. But my work does not stop at documentation.
I believe lineage carries power.
Names and dates matter. Records matter. Accuracy matters.
But so does meaning.
Again and again, I have witnessed how understanding the lived experiences of those who came before us can illuminate inherited resilience, clarify long-standing patterns, and restore a grounded sense of belonging.
When I began studying my own ancestry, I realized genealogy was never just about the past. It was about continuity. It was about recognizing the strength that had already been forged long before I arrived. That understanding changed how I moved through my own life.
Today, my work integrates rigorous research with thoughtful reflection — so you do not just gather information, you understand what it means.
Whether you are beginning your exploration or standing at a research crossroads, Origin Initiation provides a clear and grounded starting point.
You are not random.
You are the continuation of a story.
Let’s uncover it — strategically, intentionally, and with depth.
Professional Genealogist | Founder of Know Your Ancestors
Clients consistently describe this work as grounding, powerful, and unexpectedly transformative.
I never thought genealogy was for me, but Megan changed that entirely. Her research revealed deep ancestral patterns and connections that felt both grounding and transformative. What once sounded “out there” now feels completely natural. This work opened a connection I didn’t know I was missing.
ERICA BRADLEY
GRAYCE ANDERSEN
BRITTANY JEPSEN
I feel like there's so much depth to everybody that when you unravel it or when you begin to find out, it just makes you a deeper person. I feel very moved, so thank you.
TORIE FELDMAN
I already felt connected to my ancestors, but seeing the places they lived made that connection real in a new way. Your research allowed their stories to come through powerfully—it feels like the ancestors are speaking through this work. Sharing it with my family has been deeply impactful and even inspired an ancestral pilgrimage. Life-changing.
It’s really cool to hear the things that they had and went through and realize the connections in my life and that I am here right now because all these people did all these hard things to get here.
I feel like there's so much depth to everybody that when you unravel it or when you begin to find out, it just makes you a deeper person. I feel very moved, so thank you.
I already felt connected to my ancestors, but seeing the places they lived made that connection real in a new way. Your research allowed their stories to come through powerfully—it feels like the ancestors are speaking through this work. Sharing it with my family has been deeply impactful and even inspired an ancestral pilgrimage. Life-changing.
It’s really cool to hear the things that they had and went through and realize the connections in my life and that I am here right now because all these people did all these hard things to get here.
Origin Initation
Includes:
• Two live strategy sessions
• 2-3 hours of targeted professional research + analysis
• Documented family tree expansion in Ancestry or FamilySearch
• All sourced records and findings
• Personalized next-step roadmap
• Guided integration practice
• Session recordings
Investment: $297 USD
or 3 payments of $100 USD
*price increases in March 2026*
