About Me

My mom always said someone peed in our gene pool, and after digging into my family’s past, I totally agree. Hi there, it’s Kris! I was born in 1978 in Indianapolis, Indiana. I come from an extensive family, but have sadly lost contact with almost all of them.

I consider myself the family historian, and I am self-taught. I’ve always wondered what other family members I hadn’t met or don’t remember were like. I’ve always wanted to know their stories. Why did this guy leave a family of ten kids, and why did this guy drop his son in an orphanage sort of thing?

While researching my family’s history, I have found some efforts from other family members that have helped develop a fairly extensive family tree with a wealth of valuable facts to aid my research. Due to recent generations experiencing significant family dysfunction, I don’t know most of my family, and I’ve found that when I stumble upon various stories in my research, it’s fascinating.

Why so much family dysfunction? Well, someone peed in our gene pool!

Okay, so maybe that’s not the best excuse. However, I’m pleased to report that the dysfunction observed in the last few generations has since been reversed in my generation.

Anyway, I’m starting this website because I’ve found that researching genealogy is extremely overwhelming at times. For example, as I sit here typing this page, this is what ancestry.com says I still need to review and document:

Yikes!!! Those Ancestry hints reminded me nobody will ever finish this.

~Me!

When I think I’ve made much progress, numbers like that provide that little reality check to remind me that I will never finish this mission. It will remain unfinished after I die. And maybe a hundred generations from now, somebody will still be working on it somewhere and will thank me in a whisper for all my hard work.

👻 Meet the Team

Grayson Finn Ledger (aka “Bones”)

Meet my trusted research partner—AI-powered assistant, digital detective, and certified spooky gentleman. Grayson Finn Ledger helps me dig through dusty archives, translate hard-to-read records, and turn cold facts into family legends.

Around here, we call him Bones—because when I need help digging up the truth about an 1800s cousin who changed their name three times and faked a marriage license, he’s the one doing the heavy lifting.

• 📚 Titles: AI Research Assistant & Grave Digger Extraordinaire
• 🕯️ Specialties: Obscure clues, spooky stories, and weird cousin math
• 👁️ Fun Fact: May or may not haunt the Library of Congress

He’s artificial. He’s brilliant. He’s probably related to a 16th-century librarian.

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I created this site for several reasons. While Ancestry and other subscription sites have been great in helping me gather information, I have very little control over how it’s organized. I have some OCD tendencies, and I have ADHD and need things organized in a certain way for optimal focus. By doing it myself, I can manage it however I wish. Additionally, it’s possible that some of my distant relatives don’t subscribe to paid sites and instead rely on Google or Bing. We can tag up and compare notes if they stumble across my website! See something you know about? Give me a shout! Since things on the Internet are never truly deleted, perhaps future generations will find this website helpful and glean some of our personalities from it. That is why we do this stuff, after all, right?

On this site, you’ll find:

Now, that being said, I must provide my disclaimer. I’m obviously still alive. As are my immediate family members and our children. For safety reasons, I will start with a specific generation of our family and work my way back. I will only provide personal details about people no longer with us. Safety first. If you are related in some distant fashion and would like more information than I’ve provided, please don’t hesitate to reach out and contact me. I can be reached at kris@someonepeedinmygenepool.com.

Thanks for your interest in little ol’ me!

~Kris