About Roel Feeney (Founder & Author)

About Roel Feeney

Roel Feeney is the founder and lead chronology specialist behind AgeFinder.org — a trusted platform helping millions of users accurately calculate ages, date differences, birthdays, and time-based milestones. He holds the Certified Genealogist (CG™) designation from the Board for Certification of Genealogists and the Accredited Genealogist (AG®) credential from ICAPGen, and earned his Master of Science in Population Studies from Penn State University.

Before founding AgeFinder.org, Roel spent over a decade in government research — first as a Demographic Research Analyst at the U.S. Census Bureau, then as Lead Analyst in the Vital Statistics Age Verification Division at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS/CDC), where he developed age-reconstruction models used in national vital statistics programs.

“Every person deserves a fast, accurate, and trustworthy answer to one of the most fundamental questions in life — how old am I, exactly? That’s what AgeFinder.org is built to deliver.”

— Roel Feeney, CG™, AG®, Founder

Roel has been published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Family Tree Magazine, the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and has contributed to CDC policy white papers on age-verification standards. He is a regular speaker at national genealogy conferences including RootsTech and the NGS Annual Conference.