Mike is an active researcher with family and historical interests that include early English, Irish, scotch-Irish and Dutch immigrants to New England, New York and Virginia, the western migration of their descendants, including California pioneers in the 1840s and 1850s, and soldiers participating in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, the Civil War and World War II.

Mike is an active researcher with family and historical interests that include early English, Irish, scotch-Irish and Dutch immigrants to New England, New York and Virginia, the western migration of their descendants, including California pioneers in the 1840s and 1850s, and soldiers participating in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, the Civil War and World War II.