Welcome to Kevin Daniel's Page!

Boo!!! This is my 2017 state id photo AKA "angry old white man"
Get off my lawn!

The purpose of this page is to efficiently introduce myself. After being relatively unchanged for several years, I am cleaning up some dead links, tweaking colors and making the text less chatty on this page. Also creating a new web site for my genealogy stuff, etc. Not responsible for nightmares, headaches and eye strain from experimental color changes. View at your own risk!

The Four Basics

• U.S. Army veteran. (Enlisted in the Regular Army at age 17 & served for four years of active duty plus one year of Active Reserves)
  
• Education stuff
• A.A.S Electronics, Edmonds College, Edmonds, WA.
  
• B.S., Energy and Power Systems, Illinois State University , Normal, IL.
  
• M.S., Computer Science , Illinois State University.
• M.S., Library & Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  
• Other schools attended: Illinois Central College, Seattle Central College and University of Maryland Global Campus.
  
• It may look as though I LIKE to go to school, but I've just taken continual professional and personal improvement seriously as a way to improve my life and career (when I had one!). I retrained myself three times to adjust to changing economic factors, to maintain my economic viability and to be able to dine on the better brands of cat and dog food in retirement. My roots are blue collar and I worked my way through  every single day of school without incurring any debt. Every male member of my family, myself included, has been a member of a labor union (Teamsters, UAW, Boilermakers, IBEW, Steelworkers) and I still will not cross a picket line, but to get where I wanted to go, I needed college degrees.
  
• Myers Briggs INTJ, link1, link2, link3.
  
• Genealogy stuff
• Project manager for the Daniel DNA Project.
• Project manager for the Hostetter DNA Project.
• I retired several years ago and worked in various technical fields for most of my "career" (biomedical and aerospace electronics R&D, computer hardware and software, etc.), spending the last 20ish years of my work life doing Unix/Linux server level administration and security, information security and information security risk management for a Fortune 50 company.
  
• I dropped all social media when I retired; FaceBook, LinkedIn, etc.
  

• My 140 year old Victorian house. I have a second house, built in 1939, so vintage, not antique but with many original features.
• Motorcycling, Motorcycle Safety Foundation ex-instructor.
• Genealogy, author of several books, public speaker on topics including DNA research, publishing and general genealogy topics. If interested in engaging my services, contact me at the email link above.
  
• Exercise, yoga, running, jumping rope, walking, bicycling, hiking, snowshoeing, etc.
  
• I have an appreciation for boxing and other martial arts. I am just an observer these days but studied several styles over a couple of decades. This study was my introduction to the concept of seeking balance in life, which has had a major impact on my life in the most positive way. Styles formally studied:
  • Isshinryu Karate, while living in Okinawa.
  • Wing Chun Kung Fu, while living in Thailand.
  • Kenpo Karate, while living in Seattle.
  • Combat rifle and pistol shooting, U.S. Army and while living in the U.S.
    
• I have been practicing Hatha and Kundalini Yoga for over two decades. I like to mix things up and currently practice Hatha, Kripalu Vinyasa Flow yoga and Kundalini yoga. I enjoy exploring the various styles of yoga. I practice every day and have not missed a practice in 20 years. I occasionally do a Qi Gong or Tai Chi practice later in the day.
  
• I enjoy well made movies of any genre.
• Early acoustic Blues, Jazz, Swing, and Big Band music. Think Mississippi John Hurt...
  
• I enjoy classical music, especially piano and violin concertos and sonatas. Pearl has a great set of Artur Schnabel performing Beethoven's sonatas. Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Chopin has been playing in my car lately.
  
• I spend a modest amount of time keeping up on current music in several genres and anything from any period that piques my interest.
  
• I have a large studio and factory art glass collection, American, Japanese, Scandinavian, Italian, Bohemian.
  
• I am a recovering thrift shop and Netflix addict. Well.....
  
• Art collecting and art history research which was a focus of my UIUC degree. I once corresponded with an Australian collector who described himself as an "art tragic" due to his need to collect. Guilty. I can stop collecting any time I want to, though. Well....
  
• My art collection web site.
• My lost artists blog.
• My Japanese Art Glass site.
  

Return to Top of Page

• Visit my publisher: Heritage Books
• A good site to start your genealogy research: USGenWeb Project Homepage
• Another good genealogy resource, Rootsweb.
  
• If you like archaeology news.
  
• If you like art news
• Links for Atheists.
• Links for vegan blogs.
• If you care about animals.

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