I was born and raised in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio and graduated from high school there. I attended college at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio graduating from the latter in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

I was lucky to get the genealogy bug when I was but eighteen years old and therefore I had the opportunity to speak with many family members before they passed on. I was also fortunate that a lot of my family history for no less than four generations and most for at least six generations lived in Medina, Summit, Portage and Stark Counties and so it wasn't such a challenge to find a lot of the information.

I'm even luckier that I currently work (2007) in Salt Lake City, Utah, one block from the LDS Church Family History Library, the largest depository of family records in this world and can head over there at lunch time. It's just hard to leave when I need to. That facility is incredible.

I think the Find A Grave program is incredible to help preserve records for those to come and help them so they don't have to incur the costs of having to travel everywhere they would need to gather this information.

I was born and raised in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio and graduated from high school there. I attended college at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio graduating from the latter in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

I was lucky to get the genealogy bug when I was but eighteen years old and therefore I had the opportunity to speak with many family members before they passed on. I was also fortunate that a lot of my family history for no less than four generations and most for at least six generations lived in Medina, Summit, Portage and Stark Counties and so it wasn't such a challenge to find a lot of the information.

I'm even luckier that I currently work (2007) in Salt Lake City, Utah, one block from the LDS Church Family History Library, the largest depository of family records in this world and can head over there at lunch time. It's just hard to leave when I need to. That facility is incredible.

I think the Find A Grave program is incredible to help preserve records for those to come and help them so they don't have to incur the costs of having to travel everywhere they would need to gather this information.