The child of an Air Force family, Stephen Watts was born in West Germany. He is a direct descendant of Charles Watts. 

Stephen began organizing his family's archive of genealogy files, tracing his lineage, and transcribing the Charles Watts correspondence in 1996. He has since found his family's ancestral home, some of the descendants of Charles's other family members, and the final resting place of this ancestor.

Stephen grew up to serve in the Air Force himself. After nine years, he left to begin a three-decade career in the insurance industry before retiring in Georgia, where he lives with his ever-tolerant wife, Karin.