I am passionate about genealogy research, American and World history, and helping others enjoy the same. In order for us to raise the next generation of citizens and leaders we need to preserve and pass on our history.

The focus of my research has been on: 1) Early American Families, (both Native and European settlers alike) who settled places like Jamestown, Virginia, Plymouth and Concord, Massachusetts, and Somerset, Maine; 2) those individuals who would later fight for our independence in the American Revolutionary War, (and later conflicts in the effort to protect this very special country); 3) those folks who would settle the West in places like Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Oregon; and those more recent immigrants who came to this country under very trying circumstances in order to escape war, persecution, and poverty. I am hoping to run into lost family members along the way in an effort to gather and preserve our family's heritage for our children and grandchildren. I will freely transfer grave memorials to family members who have a vested interest in preserving the memorial with the only exception if the memorial is one of my ancestors. Under those circumstances, I will be glad to update the memorial with any accurate, relevant historic information. I will always promptly respond to inquiries, and correction requests. Upon request, I will freely allow you to use the information, photographs on any memorial I have created, managed, or submitted changes to so long as you reference me as the originator of the research, information, or photograph. I look forward to working with you as we help each other discover exciting information about our families and what role they played in American and World History. In the end all that "trulymatters"-is our families.

I am passionate about genealogy research, American and World history, and helping others enjoy the same. In order for us to raise the next generation of citizens and leaders we need to preserve and pass on our history.

The focus of my research has been on: 1) Early American Families, (both Native and European settlers alike) who settled places like Jamestown, Virginia, Plymouth and Concord, Massachusetts, and Somerset, Maine; 2) those individuals who would later fight for our independence in the American Revolutionary War, (and later conflicts in the effort to protect this very special country); 3) those folks who would settle the West in places like Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Oregon; and those more recent immigrants who came to this country under very trying circumstances in order to escape war, persecution, and poverty. I am hoping to run into lost family members along the way in an effort to gather and preserve our family's heritage for our children and grandchildren. I will freely transfer grave memorials to family members who have a vested interest in preserving the memorial with the only exception if the memorial is one of my ancestors. Under those circumstances, I will be glad to update the memorial with any accurate, relevant historic information. I will always promptly respond to inquiries, and correction requests. Upon request, I will freely allow you to use the information, photographs on any memorial I have created, managed, or submitted changes to so long as you reference me as the originator of the research, information, or photograph. I look forward to working with you as we help each other discover exciting information about our families and what role they played in American and World History. In the end all that "trulymatters"-is our families.