G. David Thayer

G. David Thayer has been working with computers since June of 1957, when he started work as a mathematician and computer programmer for the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado. He began programming microcomputers in 1981 and developed a number of vertical applications (computer program systems for a single corporation) in the 1980s.

David took up desktop publishing in 1991, which soon occupied so much of his time that he abandoned further programming efforts in 1995 to devote full time to this relatively new field. In 1997 he began researching the genealogy of his family and shortly afterward purchased a flatbed scanner in order to digitize the many old photographs of ancestors that were coming into his possession.

These three fields coalesced in the early twenty-first century. In 2002, David began work on a comprehensive family history titled The Tie That Binds, which he finished in 2010: an eight-year project culminating in a 1400+ page, two-volume set that was published in hardcover and distributed to family members in 2012.

David Thayer has 3 books authored or co-authored by him for sale on Amazon.com Books.