This site showcases what I've learned about family history in the thousands of hours of research I've done over the last twenty years or so. While I don't offer professional research services for others (though I've been known to look things up for people on a volunteer basis), I want to share some of my knowledge with other family history aficionados.  The real benefit of this site for me personally, however, is having people discover that someone in their family tree is also in my family tree. It's exciting to get an email from a new cousin and fellow genealogy enthusiast! Often they'll send me digital versions of vintage photos or tell me family stories that I didn't know. They're often able to provide new factual details about their ancestor, who might have been a sibling of my great-grandparent or great-great grandparents, for example.

After a great deal of thought, I've posted some family trees on Ancestry.com, primarily to connect with people with whom I have DNA matches. I've tried to source these as completely as possible from records available to me, but errors are bound to have occurred. (And I hope that anyone who cribs my notes and sources from years of research will have the grace to acknowledge where they got their information. It's always aggravating to see my stories of my grandparents in some unknown person's online family file).