Born to James M. Hood and Sandra Williams (of the Brearley family), Steve has been active over the last decade restoring his paternal family line, procuring legal documents and resourcing county, state and city documentation to establish a paper trail.

He a standing member of Clan McLeod through his great-grandmother, Letha (McLeod) Hood, and has traced surviving family members while continuing to contribute to the Hood Genealogical Database while flushing out his McLeod and Brearley heritage while working as a video editor and fiction/screenplay writer in Northern California.

Born to James M. Hood and Sandra Williams (of the Brearley family), Steve has been active over the last decade restoring his paternal family line, procuring legal documents and resourcing county, state and city documentation to establish a paper trail.

He a standing member of Clan McLeod through his great-grandmother, Letha (McLeod) Hood, and has traced surviving family members while continuing to contribute to the Hood Genealogical Database while flushing out his McLeod and Brearley heritage while working as a video editor and fiction/screenplay writer in Northern California.