Family trees rarely look like trees.

In real life, families twist, overlap, and loop back on themselves. Cousins marry cousins. Widows and widowers marry siblings of their deceased spouses. Brothers marry sisters from another family. Generations intertwine in ways that make tidy charts nearly impossible. What you end up with isn’t a tree at all — it’s a tangle.

That tangle is why I call this site The Tumbleweed.

What You’ll Find Here

This blog is a home for the family history research I’ve conducted over many years. Here you’ll find:

• Documented facts drawn from original records
• Analysis and interpretation of conflicting evidence
• Conclusions that evolve as new information comes to light
• Occasional narratives — not fiction, but stories grounded in time, place, and circumstance

New research is added regularly as I continue to investigate new family lines, revisit earlier conclusions, and document discoveries as they happen.

Genealogy is rarely straightforward. It involves false starts, missing records, contradictory sources, and the occasional brick wall that can take years to break through. It’s also immensely rewarding. There’s nothing quite like finding the one record that suddenly makes everything else fall into place.

Whether you’re a fellow researcher, a distant cousin, or simply curious about how real families actually fit together, I hope you’ll find something here that informs, challenges, or inspires you.

Pull up a chair. The tumbleweed rolls on.