Hello! Early in 2014 I stumbled upon Find A Grave while researching an unrelated historical figure. I was amazed to find so many of my family here. That discovery began a passion for locating burials and adding memorials, linking family members, and adding photos to my family memorials. Soon after I was doing the same for others... historical figures, authors, entertainers, "shirt tail" relatives, and teachers, neighbors and family friends and acquaintances from long ago.

I have become the "lucky" custodian of my branch of my family history and have inherited boxes and boxes of family photos and documents. Along with those boxes came the painful awareness that I am the last of the family who knows who these folks were and how their stories intertwined with ours. After a cancer diagnosis I felt an urgent desire to find a way to share and preserve this information and these photos for my family and other descendants of my ancestors... to get them off my closet shelves and out into the world. Discovering Find A Grave provided the beginning of that process and I'm very grateful for it.

My work on Find A Grave inspired me to create a growing family tree on Ancestry.com that now has more than 7,000 people and many more photos, documents, sources and stories. My family roots in the US are all in Missouri, arriving from Germany and Switzerland between the 1830's and early 1850's. Then, following a large family migration between 1900 and 1936, Tacoma Washington became the next focus of our family history. Family names can be found in several of my virtual cemeteries and many of their stories are in biographies on their Find A Grave memorials.

You can feel free to use any of the photos I've added to memorials, but please don't then take credit for them as though they are your own. Some are photos that I have actually taken myself and I own/have inherited almost all of the old ones and that would bother me a lot. Otherwise, getting them out there was my intention, after all, and judging by the numbers of them I am now finding all over Ancestry.com and elsewhere, that's happening anyway. Great! Share and spread the joy. I'm always pleasantly surprised when I'm credited for a photo, but it's not necessary.

Thank you to all the Find A Grave members who have been such a huge part of making it the amazing place that it is and who have participated, collaborated and helped in this wonderful work I so enjoy. If you find I've inadvertently made any mistakes in my work, please do kindly let me know and of course feel free to contact me if I can be of any help to you.

KKC

Hello! Early in 2014 I stumbled upon Find A Grave while researching an unrelated historical figure. I was amazed to find so many of my family here. That discovery began a passion for locating burials and adding memorials, linking family members, and adding photos to my family memorials. Soon after I was doing the same for others... historical figures, authors, entertainers, "shirt tail" relatives, and teachers, neighbors and family friends and acquaintances from long ago.

I have become the "lucky" custodian of my branch of my family history and have inherited boxes and boxes of family photos and documents. Along with those boxes came the painful awareness that I am the last of the family who knows who these folks were and how their stories intertwined with ours. After a cancer diagnosis I felt an urgent desire to find a way to share and preserve this information and these photos for my family and other descendants of my ancestors... to get them off my closet shelves and out into the world. Discovering Find A Grave provided the beginning of that process and I'm very grateful for it.

My work on Find A Grave inspired me to create a growing family tree on Ancestry.com that now has more than 7,000 people and many more photos, documents, sources and stories. My family roots in the US are all in Missouri, arriving from Germany and Switzerland between the 1830's and early 1850's. Then, following a large family migration between 1900 and 1936, Tacoma Washington became the next focus of our family history. Family names can be found in several of my virtual cemeteries and many of their stories are in biographies on their Find A Grave memorials.

You can feel free to use any of the photos I've added to memorials, but please don't then take credit for them as though they are your own. Some are photos that I have actually taken myself and I own/have inherited almost all of the old ones and that would bother me a lot. Otherwise, getting them out there was my intention, after all, and judging by the numbers of them I am now finding all over Ancestry.com and elsewhere, that's happening anyway. Great! Share and spread the joy. I'm always pleasantly surprised when I'm credited for a photo, but it's not necessary.

Thank you to all the Find A Grave members who have been such a huge part of making it the amazing place that it is and who have participated, collaborated and helped in this wonderful work I so enjoy. If you find I've inadvertently made any mistakes in my work, please do kindly let me know and of course feel free to contact me if I can be of any help to you.

KKC