She keeps on trucking while helping people trace their families’ roots

Gray Stabley Carmichael ’85 started a new business in 2023 as a professional genealogist while balancing a full-time job as an over-the-road truck driver. She’s been on the road with her husband for 14 years and studying genealogy for more than a decade.

After completing her mathematics degree from Longwood, she pursued a second degree in meteorology at Lyndon State College in Vermont. She worked 16 years as an on-air meteorologist in Richmond, Virginia; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Portland, Maine (where she met her husband).

Carmichael now pursues her passion for helping others find their past with Gray Stabley Genealogy Services. She reports that her husband’s family roots go back to the Mayflower, and her family can be traced back to Pennsylvania in the 1700s.