I am an independent researcher driven by a lifelong fascination with people, places, and the quiet details that history leaves behind. My work is rooted in original documents, careful analysis, and verifiable evidence—because the truth of the past is not found in assumptions, but in records, patterns, and context. Every project I take on is built from the ground up, tracing what the sources actually say and how they connect, so conclusions are earned rather than guessed.
My perspective on history was shaped early. I was born in Germany and grew up as an Army brat, moving between bases, towns, and cultures across the United States and Europe. Travel taught me that places carry memory — in their landscapes, their cemeteries, their old maps, and their surviving records. Later, my service in the National Guard reinforced a respect for structure, documentation, and the responsibility of preserving what matters. Those experiences gave me a deep appreciation for how individual lives fit into larger historical systems.
Today, my research spans family lineages, vanished communities, cemeteries, land ownership, migration patterns, and the changing geography of towns and counties. I study how people moved, where they lived, how they were buried, what they owned, and how boundaries shifted around them. Whether I am working with deeds, maps, census pages, church registers, or headstones, I focus on connecting records into something meaningful — a coherent story grounded in evidence.
Genealogy is not just about names and dates to me. It is about understanding lives: why families left, where they settled, how they survived, and what they left behind. Every record holds a human story, and every place holds memory waiting to be uncovered. My goal is to bring clarity to that past — documenting it carefully, questioning it honestly, and preserving it so others can explore it, verify it, and continue the work.
This site exists to do exactly that: to bring together documents, geography, and thoughtful analysis so the past is not just archived, but understood.
