Carol has lived in Washington state, Germany, Iowa, and Florida. Married since 1970, she and her husband Jim have one married son, a great daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren.
She has done volunteer work, as well as working in a deli, and her last employment was for the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island in Florida.

Carol became a Certified Graphoanalyst in 1987; she began doing handwriting analysis as Enlightenment, Inc. with her business partner Sheryl. The business was dissolved in 1993 when the two partners were living on separate coasts and found it very difficult to keep up paperwork and communication needed to run the corporation.

In addition, being the family genealogist has opened many new doors of education such as documenting personal history for her family, learning computer skills, and person to person communication.

Much of her physical endeavors are limited by the painful condition of Fibromyalgia, which she has learned to endure during her lifetime.