Born during World War II, I am the second of three daughters born to Charles Edward Healy and Catherine Eugenia Whitted Fick. Being a Navy family, we moved a lot during my childhood: California, Florida, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington DC, Arizona, Washington and Puerto Rico. I received my BA in History from Florida State University and my MLS in Library Science along with my teaching credentials at San Jose State University and am currently a retired school district librarian in Atwater, California. I became interested in genealogy in the mid 1970s when I realized I knew next to nothing about my mother's father who died when she was very young. After twenty years of doing research on my mother's family lines, I worked with my aunt, Hope Healy Koontz, to produce a book on my father's paternal families, the Healys and the Hopes. My aunt Hope, who spent years gathering information on our Miller line, has given me all her boxes of research and documents, so my research has expanded to those family lines as well. I am indebted to her, another retired school librarian, for the great amount of research she produced. My webpage has brought me into contact with cousins in Australia, England, Canada and all over the United States. If you think you are related through one of my family lines, I would love to hear from you and share information.

Anne Healy Field

Photograph of Anne Elizabeth Healy as a young child riding a rocking horse.