Timeline Research Ireland was established in 2006 by Dr. Robert Somerville Woodward and Nicola Morris to provide pro fessional genealogical and historical research services to clients in Ireland and around the world.  With 15 years experience in the fields of genealogy and history we are able to offer expert advice and research services carried out to the highest professional standards. 

In 2009 Nicola Morris became a member of theAssociation of Professional Genealogists in Ireland

To date, our client list includes:

Shed Media US (Who Do You Think You Are? NBC)

Wall to Wall (Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC UK TV)

The Irish Theatre Institute

Ancestral Footsteps

The Fulbright Commission

Original Writing

One Productions

Nicola Morris was born in Kenya to an English father and Irish mother. She draws on a rich family history that can be traced back to the court of Henry VIII, the breweries of Lancashire and farms of Yorkshire to Cork city publicans and a mysterious Italian great great grandmother. She grew up in Dublin city and obtained a degree in History from Trinity College Dublin.

In 2007 Nicola became a director of Timeline Research Ltd.

She works very closely with the production company for the BBC programme 'Who Do You Think You Are?' and most recently for the US version of the show, which is aired on NBC. She has appeared on screen with Rosie O'Donnell, Jeremy Irons, Graham Norton and Chris Moyles. She has also appeared with John Waters in ‘Where Were Your Ancestor’s During the Famine’. Nicola is currently working with Big Mountain Productions on a number of historical and genealogical related programmes for Irish television.

Her article on life in the Dublin Slums was published in the BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, along with a shorter guide to tracing your Dublin ancestors. She has also written a history of the Fulbright Commission in Ireland.

As well as offering a professional genealogical research service, Nicola also works on house and building histories and histories of institutions and organisations.

Dr. Robert Somerville-Woodward was initially educated in England at the University of Southampton where he received a First Class Honours Degree in History and Geography and the University of Bradford where he gained a Masters Degree in Peace Studies and scholarship awards from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Geraldine Cadbury Trust.

From 1994 to 1998 he attended University College, Dublin in the Combined Departments of History under the supervision of Professor Mary Daly. A recipient of a three-year postgraduate scholarship under the Ireland-UK Scholarship Exchange Scheme from 1996 to 1998 he was awarded his PhD in 1998 for his thesis: 'Language Without a Mouth: The Development of an Irish Language Consciousness in the English Language'; in the same year was one of the winners of the inaugural Beckett Gold Medal in Modern Irish History for his monograph The Dublin Ossianic Society, 1853-1863.

Since 1998 Dr. Somerville-Woodward has worke d as a genealogist, professional researcher and writer in the field of Irish history and amongst his larger research commissions was that undertaken for Ballymun Regeneration Limited, an eighteen-month project resulting in the two-volume Ballymun: A History c. 1600-1997.