Current Research

A Multi-Platform AI Verification Methodology for Standards-Governed Research A formal description of the governance methodology developed across this research program: how to assign AI platforms to specialized roles, map them to an evidentiary standard, and produce an audit trail that demonstrates process integrity. Targeting the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, with a preprint on Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21829448.

Can huMSC Therapy Expand the Recoverable Training Dose in Healthy Aging Adults?
This prospective case study investigates whether human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell (hUC-MSC) therapy can improve exercise recovery capacity and mortality-predictive fitness metrics in healthy, non-frail aging individuals. The study addresses a genuine evidence gap: while the landmark Ruiz et al. (2026) Phase 2b trial demonstrated that allogeneic MSC therapy improves physical endurance in frail older adults, no published study (as of May 2026) has examined whether MSC therapy can serve a preventive role — enhancing recovery capacity in healthy aging adults before frailty develops. The study introduces a formal operational definition of the “recoverable training dose” (RTD): the highest sustained training load that maintains or improves autonomic function, preserves performance, and does not increase injury or overreaching markers.

A Generational Correction in a Kent Gentry Pedigree A published family pedigree contains a generational error that conflates father and son. The error was identified independently by a nineteenth-century herald but never propagated into mainstream scholarship. A correction article has been prepared for Archaeologia Cantiana.

Marriage, Trust, and Capital: Fiduciary Networks as Predictors of Marriage Alliance in Tudor Cranbrook Did trust come before marriage — or did marriage create trust? Across eleven interconnected clothier and gentry families in the Kentish Weald (c. 1460–1620), fiduciary appointments in wills and property records consistently precede marriage alliances, with zero counter-examples in the testable dataset. Targeting Continuity and Change.

Nine Armigerous Lines Through Two Tudor Gentry Networks (Parts I and II) The English ancestry of Abigail (Ruck) Thomas of Boston, traced through nine lines bearing arms, converging in two interconnected gentry networks centered on Cranbrook and Goudhurst, Kent. Part I covers the English pedigrees; Part II extends through the colonial American connections. Targeting the New England Historical and Genealogical Register and Archaeologia Cantiana.

Male-Line Extinction and Cognatic Descent in English Heraldry A study of how male-line extinction in armigerous families creates methodological challenges for cognatic-descent hereditary societies — and what a rigorous approach to those challenges looks like. Targeting The Coat of Arms.

A Multi-Platform AI Verification Methodology for Standards-Governed Research A formal description of the governance methodology developed across this research program: how to assign AI platforms to specialized roles, map them to an evidentiary standard, and produce an audit trail that demonstrates process integrity. Targeting the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, with a preprint on arXiv.