Located in Southern California. My mother is a serious amateur genealogist. I have a strong interest in our family's history as well, and a fairly good knowledge of it, and a desire to pay respect to the ancestors who came before me.


Family surnames: Appel, Barbee, Barbour, Belknap/Beltoft, Billington, Black, Braun/Brown, Bruce, Casper/Kasper, Downs, Fuchs, Garlinghouse, Gilbert, Goettgen, Graves, Hammenn, Hardin, Holmes, Jenatsch, Jones, Matthews, Mauldin, Ober, Orr, Painter, Parks, Perkins, Powell, Riegler, Ruedi, Ruhl, Salts/Solt/Zoll, Sherrill, Sohns, Stapf, Steger, Sweetman, Thomas/Thoma, Thuma, Wachs, Watts, Welman/Wellman.