I'm an 8th-generation 'Californio', descending from Mission-era soldiers, as well as from New Mexicans arriving via the 'Old Spanish Trail', Forty-niners, and Covered-wagon folk, as well as later Scottish and English immigrants.

I'm also a genealogist and lay-historian, specializing in New Mexican emigration to Alta California in the 1830s and '40s, but with broader interest in California, the "Southwest" and the "Borderlands" with Mexico.

I'm an 8th-generation 'Californio', descending from Mission-era soldiers, as well as from New Mexicans arriving via the 'Old Spanish Trail', Forty-niners, and Covered-wagon folk, as well as later Scottish and English immigrants.

I'm also a genealogist and lay-historian, specializing in New Mexican emigration to Alta California in the 1830s and '40s, but with broader interest in California, the "Southwest" and the "Borderlands" with Mexico.