Shotwell, Joe, RMC

Genealogical Research.  Presently creating and editting books of various family lines.

After Retirement from the Navy in 1971, moved with family to Eagle River, Alaska.  In 1972 began attending college in Anchorage, Alaska studying Surveying Technology.  Earned an AAS Degree in 1974.  Workded part time during this period as an Instrument Man for a private survey firm in Anchorage, Alaska.

1974 Moved to Chiloquin, Oregon, began attending the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) at Klamath Falls, Ore., studying Civil Engineering. 

Summer 1975 returned to Alaska as a Coop Student Survey Technician for the office of the Alaska Bureau of Land Management.  Surveyed the Alaska Native Villiage Townsite of Holy Cross, on the Yukon River, - employing Airborne Control Survey techniques, which used Helicopters to drop survey monuments at the intersection of  predetermined angles and distances from set control positions on the ground.  Once a week, went to the position of the survey monuments that had been dropped and moved and set them at the proper point for the corner of the section(s). 

Returned to Oregon and OIT, attended classes for one semester and dropped out of College. 

Worked for a while as a survey technician for an Engineering Firm in Klamath Falls. 

1976-1977 Built our home on the Agency Lake, near Chiloquin, Ore.

1977 returned to OIT, continued studies full time, carrying from 12-21 Credits per term - 1979 Graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering. 

Took a Job with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Santa Fe, NMex.  as a Professional Surveyor.  Went from Santa Fe to Denver, Colorado, to Grand Junction Colorado where I was in charge of a survey project office, to Denver, Colorado where I was a Survey Reviewer, to Gallup, NMex. where I was Project Manager of the Navajo Indian Reservation Surveys, to Phoenix, Az. where I was the GCDB Section Chief. 

I retired at the BLM State Office in Phoenix, Az. in 1993.  During my career as a Professional Surveyor for the U.S. Governement, I progressed up the ladder from GS-7 to GM-13. 

I  eventually moved back to the state of my birth, where my wife and I now live in retirement.