Below - email address, a brief biography, and a short description of past and present research activities and projects.
Right - links to web pages with some genealogical and DNA information about myself; and to those projects with which I am presently involved.
I was born in Ontario, Canada, raised in the Province of Quebec, and moved back to my ancestral home of Haldimand County in the 1970s. Here, in an 1865 fieldstone farmhouse near Hagersville, my three children grew up residing only minutes away from their paternal grandparents in South Cayuga. Weekends were spent at the family cottage in the Muskoka Lakes region of Ontario.
My educational background is as follows: I have a B.A. (Hons.) in Psychology from Concordia University in Montreal; an M.A. in Psychology from the University of Guelph; and was granted a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Professionally, in addition to being a Medical Scientist, I am also a Registered Psychologist. I began my career as a neuropsychologist in a psychiatric hospital and an institution for the criminally insane. Eventually I opened a private practice and specialized in forensic cases which required testifying in Court as an expert witness - largely in custody and access as well as child abuse matters. In addition I worked at Mohawk College in Hamilton as a teacher until the mid 1990s, when I retired and closed my private practice. I then emigrated to the United States, working first as a Learning Disabilities Specialist at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. I am presently a tenured faculty member at East Los Angeles College, teaching courses ranging from introductory psychology to psychopharmacology.
As to interests, in days gone by I was very involved in outdoor pursuits such as skiing (snow and water), boating, snowmobiling, hiking - as well as restoration of the home and cottage. Since 1974 I have been deeply immersed in climbing the family tree and in the 1980s I became a Certified Genealogist. I also joined the Ontario Genealogical Society and the United Empire Loyalist's Association of Canada (being a descendant of Lt. John Young of the Six Nations Indian Department and his Mohawk Six Nations wife Catharine Hill). My present interests have largely been in connection with DNA (population genetics) and grandchildren (four born in 2006 alone).
I presently reside with my wife Margaret near Seal Beach, California.
1) Publications: Research and publications in the fields of psychology, biography, genealogy, history, archaeology, anthropology, and Native studies. Present efforts are focused on DNA.
2) Genealogy: In addition to researching family history (e.g., YOUNG family), have specialized in Native North American genealogy - particularly the Six Nations people of Upstate New York, and Ontario, Canada. A related project involved a 30 year effort to research the site, then work to restore the abandoned YOUNG and NELLES family cemetery.
3) DNA: At present am conducting studies of Y chromosome DNA of anyone with the surname FAUX; and exploring both Y and mt DNA of those whose family originated in the SHETLAND ISLANDS. Other interests include tracing the origins of the Cimbri of Denmark and exploring the Central Asian - Scandinavian link, as well as Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1c10 (those testing S28+ downstream of M269).
