Sharon Sergeant

Sharon Sergeant is an American forensic genealogist who specializes in researching and tracing international fraud cases, property settlements, and provenance of artifact collections. She also conducts biographical research for historians, publishers, authors, and journalists. Sergeant attended Northeastern University[citation needed] and received a bachelor's degree from Boston University.[citation needed] She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.

She was involved in exposing two high-profile literary frauds in 2008, Misha Defonseca and Herman Rosenblat.[1]

  1. ^ Judith Rosen. "Does Publishing Need Genealogists?", Publishers Weekly, Jan. 12, 2009. Archived January 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine