My professional background is as an educator having taught both English and History at the secondary level and higher education. I have an in-depth background as a researcher and have done significant genealogical work.

One of my goals as a contributor to Find a Grave is to bring family units together. As a contributor, I have successfully provided more than 19,300 approved edits bringing together parents and children for scores of families. The ultimate purpose of this effort is to provide information to others making family connections and for those doing family research.

I do not believe in racking up numbers of memorials just for the sake of doing so. That becomes a matter of quantity over quality. It is a disservice, in many instances, for complete strangers to do memorials for people they know nothing about, unless they are willing to do the work to research about the person, their family, and pay some kind of adequate respect to their memory. Tell something about their story, if you can. Everyone has a story.

Family Genealogies in which I am knowledgeable and have researched include the following:

Paternal Side:

Andrews

Baker

Beall

Burnham

Cogswell

Conner

Creighton

Ebersole

Emerson

Harris

Hart

Keener

Lewis

Mitchell

Morris

Peirce/Pierce

Perkins

Shoup/Shaub

Story

Taylor

Welsh

Young

Maternal Side:

Beagle

Clevenger

Daniels

Dolbow/Dalbo

Hartzell/Hertzell

Himes

Hittle

Lawson

Mattson

Pittman

Rambo

Reichard

Revenaugh

Roberts

Seabrook

Swenson

Taylor

Thomas

Warner

Welch/Welsh

Winter