About Me
About 1976 I was found as a missing heir. It seems that a great-grandfather had three families that only heard in rumors about the others. I end up with $92 as an inheritance but it got me interested in doing genealogy of my various family lines.
At one time, I did professional genealogical research but eventually my work situation made it impossible for me to continue. I started copying tombstones in local area cemeteries in 1983 and have since copied about 60,000 inscriptions in about 60 cemeteries in Monroe County. I spent about 10 years as membership chair of the Rochester Genealogical Society. That term finally ended in June 1998 and then I edited the RGS newsletter for 10 years. In 1993 - 1994, I aided Eileen Welsome, a reporter from the Albuquerque Tribune in finding people who had been injected with plutonium at a Rochester area hospital in the 1940s. Her quest for those victims is documented in the book titled The Plutonium Files
Another interest is computers. I had my first programming course on mainframes in 1968 in FORTRAN (language) and learned a bunch of other computer languages, which I never have used. My first personal computer was a Sinclair ZX80, which I bought for about $200 about 1982. It had a total memory of 1K and used a tape recorder in place of a hard drive. After that I got a Coleco Adam for which I bought a 300bps modem to connect to CompuServe. That got me my first taste of being on-line, even if it was incredibly slow by today's standard. I was on many of the local computer bulletin boards in the late 80s and early 90s and then got on the Internet in 1994. I created my first web page soon after.
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