I have always been interested in family genealogy and family histories.
I found this site a few years back while searching for information on my grandmother and found her page but they couldn't find her grave. I happened to had found it and had photos, so that started me on adding to Find A Grave.
Since then, I have added and updated several old friends and family members that I found on here. Mostly, I seem to spend a great deal of my time trying to reconnect the family members to each other in here who have passed on, than adding new ones.
I'm glad this site is here; I've really found it quite interesting especially eventually tracing down old family that I didn't even know existed!
As an old saying goes, "Our ancestors can't tell us where they are buried; we have to find them."
I'm not currently a volunteer but may later try and add some local photos in this area.
Researching the Lauffer, Watson, Gray, Goodin, Jeter, Marrs, DeKracker (DeKraker) families.
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DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
~ Author Unknown

I have always been interested in family genealogy and family histories.
I found this site a few years back while searching for information on my grandmother and found her page but they couldn't find her grave. I happened to had found it and had photos, so that started me on adding to Find A Grave.
Since then, I have added and updated several old friends and family members that I found on here. Mostly, I seem to spend a great deal of my time trying to reconnect the family members to each other in here who have passed on, than adding new ones.
I'm glad this site is here; I've really found it quite interesting especially eventually tracing down old family that I didn't even know existed!
As an old saying goes, "Our ancestors can't tell us where they are buried; we have to find them."
I'm not currently a volunteer but may later try and add some local photos in this area.
Researching the Lauffer, Watson, Gray, Goodin, Jeter, Marrs, DeKracker (DeKraker) families.
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DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
~ Author Unknown