I was born and raised in central Indiana, am a graduate of Purdue University in engineering and Baldwin Wallace College with an MBA. I worked for a major instrumentation company as an engineer and in executive management and have traveled internationally to over 30 countries. I currently live in Northeast Ohio near the Pennsylvania border. My wife and I have 2 children, 6 grandchildren and one great grand child. I started my genealogy interest at age of 16 by tramping through grave yards and dusting off old record books in county offices and churches. For those of you who did not know about life before computers, that is how it was done. I do keep my family records on computer (Family Tree Maker) and do belong to a genealogy .com. Now retired and I still enjoy looking for the source documents, the only way to really prove lineage. I signed up as a volunteer to take pictures of grave stones as it is one way I can help people document and reconnect with their family history. Family names are Hinson, Schrader, Latta, Kivett, Scott, Lampe, Thompson, Hadley, Craven just to name a few.

I was born and raised in central Indiana, am a graduate of Purdue University in engineering and Baldwin Wallace College with an MBA. I worked for a major instrumentation company as an engineer and in executive management and have traveled internationally to over 30 countries. I currently live in Northeast Ohio near the Pennsylvania border. My wife and I have 2 children, 6 grandchildren and one great grand child. I started my genealogy interest at age of 16 by tramping through grave yards and dusting off old record books in county offices and churches. For those of you who did not know about life before computers, that is how it was done. I do keep my family records on computer (Family Tree Maker) and do belong to a genealogy .com. Now retired and I still enjoy looking for the source documents, the only way to really prove lineage. I signed up as a volunteer to take pictures of grave stones as it is one way I can help people document and reconnect with their family history. Family names are Hinson, Schrader, Latta, Kivett, Scott, Lampe, Thompson, Hadley, Craven just to name a few.