Archival & Genealogical Research — Records retrieval and analysis across FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, Geni, FindMyPast and Geneanet. 47,000+ individual records traversed, cross-checked and confidence-scored. Descendant tracing and next-of-kin identification. Multi-jurisdiction vital, land, probate and immigration record research.
Geospatial Analysis & Mapping — Geophysical, land-record and administrative dataset integration. Interactive web map development in Leaflet, GeoJSON and KML. Parcel, claims and ownership analysis across multi-agency sources.
Web Application Development — Full-stack Next.js and Node.js application development. Linux deployment and operations: systemd, Docker, nginx, TLS.
Data Engineering & Automation — Large-scale web scraping and ETL pipeline development. API integration and structured dataset construction.
Technical Writing & Editorial — Long-form research writing, documentation and editorial production.
Production Services — Voice-over narration and audio recording. Live streaming operations and video production.
Primary-source discipline — findings cited to verifiable official records, never aggregated from secondary summaries.
Builds the tooling — develops the scraping, mapping and verification pipelines rather than only consuming off-the-shelf products.
Verification at scale — confidence-scored workflows separating confirmed fact from inference across tens of thousands of records.
End-to-end delivery — research, analysis, mapping, writing and publication from a single vendor.
Statewide geospatial dataset and public map — Built and published a California abandoned mines and ghost towns inventory, consolidating state and federal datasets into an interactive map with scoring, filtering and per-site export. Companion dataset covers 181 gold districts with 228,000+ reclaimed and 135,000+ active mining claims, including acreage footprints and per-claim Google Earth KML endpoints.
Large-scale lineage research and verification — Conducted systematic genealogical verification across a tree of 47,000+ individuals, developing a line-based traversal that cross-checks each relationship against primary records and scores confidence to separate confirmed lineage from inference. Extended to archival records research, locating and retrieving probate, vital and land records from county and state repositories to resolve open identification questions.
Full-stack web application development — Designed, built and deployed a Next.js 16 publishing platform with administrative editor, content curation workflow and automated candidate sourcing from multiple trust-tiered feeds. Operated on Linux with systemd service management, nginx reverse proxy and TLS.
Data pipeline and automation engineering — Built scraping and ETL pipelines that ingest and normalize public datasets from state agencies and multi-site research sources, including a weekly bulk-data ingestion path for California unclaimed property records and a six-source federated search tool with automated change detection.