Welcome to the House of Stapleton
The Stapleton Foundation, managed by Stapco, preserves the official history, genealogy, and legacy of the family. This website serves a different purpose. It exists because life should include a little fun.
Here you'll find family stories, traditions, hobbies, projects, accomplishments, and whatever else happened to capture our interest. There is no politics, no drama, no bad language, and very little seriousness.
Think of this as the front porch of the House of Stapleton. Look around, make yourself comfortable, and enjoy your visit. The only real danger is discovering a new hobby or watching your favorite team lose in a playoff tournament.
Genealogy for Fun
The Stapleton Foundation website contains the official family genealogy, with documented lineages stretching back before 1086. It is carefully researched, fully sourced, and rigorously maintained.
This section takes a more adventurous approach. Here we explore connections between the Stapleton family and kings, queens, historical figures, celebrities, heroes, villains, and other interesting characters from history.
Are they relatives? Usually not. Are they connected? Often yes. Think of it as the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game applied to the House of Stapleton. The goal is to discover surprising connections and have a little fun along the way.
Entertainment
Every family collects something. Over the years, we happened to collect movies, television shows, and music. Quite a lot of them, actually.
This section contains our entertainment catalog, featuring more than 900 movies and television titles, over 90,000 song titles, 11,000 albums, and nearly 3,000 artists. At some point it probably crossed the line from "collection" to "obsession," but we'll let visitors decide that for themselves.
Feel free to browse, search, and see if something catches your eye. You might even discover a forgotten favorite.
Sports Hub
It all started with the 2002 FIFA World Cup. What began as a simple Excel spreadsheet soon turned into a fascination with professional sports playoff tournaments of every kind.
Eventually those spreadsheets became this website. Here family and friends can test their prediction skills, follow tournament brackets, and enjoy a little friendly competition.
No betting, no gambling, and no risk to your wallet—only your pride.
Trivia Games
Everyone enjoys knowing a fact that nobody else in the room knows.
These simple trivia games and lookups are filled with interesting facts, oddities, and bits of knowledge from a variety of subjects. Whether you learn something useful or completely useless is left up to chance.