I started researching my family tree around 2000 to find out if we were connected to the Gillette razor man, who my father said was told to him by his father, a cousin of. After many years of research, I found the documents that establish the connection.

Since then, I researched my and my wife's family extensively. In 2025, I started restoring our church cemetery grave markers. I restored around 20 fallen and or broken stones, and cleaned many more.