The President of Elizabethtown College had no idea her great aunt was once voted “Most Catholic Mother of Delaware County” in 1950 until a college freshman told her, writes Samantha Galvez for fox43.com.

Eric Schubert, 18, cracks hundreds of ancestry and adoption cases all from his Elizabethtown College desk.

He’s been diving into genealogy work since he was 9. He used to get sick a lot, so he spent a lot of time home from school. It was a way to cure boredom. What started as curiosity about his own background spiraled into helping others.

“There’s a lot of people who I have to disprove things they’ve been told,” Schubert said. “Which doesn’t go over well all the time. Like, ‘no you’re not Native American,’ ‘no you’re not related to Abraham Lincoln’.”

He never takes a day off. Now he handles about two dozen cases a day, including the ancestral history of Elizabethtown’s first female president, Cecilia McCormick.

Schubert has been interning for her and recently presented her with a book, displaying photos, newspaper clippings, documents, census records, marriage licenses, death certificates, revealing one surprise after another, including her connection to Delco.

Read more about Eric’s special genealogy abilities here.

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