I am a proud native Texan, army veteran and employee at a school for disabled children. I'm also the son of a English lit. professor and a UT Center of American History archivist at Austin. I am descended from everyone from Mayflower pilgrims, Saxon kings, French voyageurs, Algonquin Indians and little-known farmers. I served in West Germany in the last couple years of the Cold War and was deployed with the 18th Airborne in the '89 Invasion of Panama.

I have been interested in factual genealogy, American and Texas history since I was a child. I have assisted on several Texas history books, internet articles and docudrama films, but mainly on the

Texas rangers. I believe in tracking down primary and contemporary material in local, state and

federal archives, not just posting derivative data from books, newspapers, and genealogy sites.

These places are rife with error and family lore. Presently, I'm assisting some author-historians.

I also do research on my relative, well-known Oregon photographer Maj. Lee Moorhouse and his thousands of photographs of Native Americans and Oregon State subjects.

If you have accurate and respectful suggestions for my humble memorials, please enter them in

the edit feature per findagrave rules or PM me. Thank you.

My email is: [email protected]