Amtrak train Conductor living in Sturbridge, Massachusetts USA.

5th Great-Grandson of Randolph Jefferson, brother of president Thomas Jefferson; Grandson of Captain Morgan.

Of what I've read about my relatives, I like best what was said of my grandfather Randolph, in that he was a simple man, and came out and fiddled with the black folk (at his plantation). You know my grandfather truly loved people and having a good time -- he was a party person.

I am mixed ancestry of German-Irish-Welsh-French and mixed race of Caucasian, American Indian, and Ashkenazi Jew.

My paternal grandfather Hans DeWalt (Lederman) Leatherman immigrated to the United States in 1727 through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the ship JAMES GOODWILL.

Immediate surnames of my family ancestry are LEATHERMAN-FOLAND-MORGAN-GODET.

I believe this project is very important to finding the root cause of disease and the ability to find methods to curing or at the very least making currently fatal or disabling disease a chronic condition that can be treated effectively.

Now if I could only figure out how my Uncle Thomas Jefferson kept that younger look until he was in his seventies ...