Thank you for the plug for the http://www.geni.com/projects/Shopkeepers/16772 project.
I've worked on hundreds of projects on Geni and this is one of the few I've been able to add "nearer time" ancestors to.
I won't be able to do a "straight up" patrilineal line; my tree is more like a Z shape in tracking backwards in time, switching off the train tracks from father to mother based on what records have been found.
So I'll start my own trail back with Oregon Pioneer, blacksmith and farmer, Johnson Monroe Willard