Sanja Frigan Ciuha was born in 1964. in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 1989. with degrees in history and the Russian language. She soon became a teacher, teaching history in a high school in Zagreb
In 1994, she started doing genealogical research as a hobby, tracing her Frigan family tree down to the year 1699, in the parish of Moravče, near Zagreb.
After that she started working as a professional genealogist, researching family trees of hundreds of customers of Croatian origin spread out all over the world (USA, Canada, Australia and South America). She was one of the founders of the Croatian genealogical society “Pavao Ritter Vitezović”