I began as a Chemical Engineer, went into Chemistry, and worked for many years as a professor at the University of New Mexico. Since 1999 my interests have been redirected from chemistry and environmental research to family history research and writing. I have authored or co-authored four histories: The Never-Failing Brook, The Glenn and Mary Imle Tapscott Family; Henry the Immigrant, The First Tapscotts of Virginia (two editions); Bier und Brot, the Wehners of Southeast Missouri; and To Praise; To Bless, To Preach, a History of the Newman Dominican Community at the University of New Mexico. A fifth book, Henry's Children, The Tapscotts of the Wabash Valley, is being written. I manage a Tapscott Surname DNA study at FamilyTreeDNA, administer the Tapscott name message board on Ancestry.com, and post Tapscott family history on Blogspot.com.

I began as a Chemical Engineer, went into Chemistry, and worked for many years as a professor at the University of New Mexico. Since 1999 my interests have been redirected from chemistry and environmental research to family history research and writing. I have authored or co-authored four histories: The Never-Failing Brook, The Glenn and Mary Imle Tapscott Family; Henry the Immigrant, The First Tapscotts of Virginia (two editions); Bier und Brot, the Wehners of Southeast Missouri; and To Praise; To Bless, To Preach, a History of the Newman Dominican Community at the University of New Mexico. A fifth book, Henry's Children, The Tapscotts of the Wabash Valley, is being written. I manage a Tapscott Surname DNA study at FamilyTreeDNA, administer the Tapscott name message board on Ancestry.com, and post Tapscott family history on Blogspot.com.