I have been doing serious genealogy for 15 years now, focusing on my female lines, which can be difficult. I prove everything I find - by spending long hours in courthouses, cemeteries, libraries, etc. I travel to the places my ancestors hail from - mostly the UK, central Illinois, southwest Virginia and Pennsylvania. I am currently working on doing inventories for several Derbyshire and Staffordshire churchyards. I will add any pertinent information, such as birth and death dates, but only if I have proof it is correct. (I will look through parish registers as well as newspaper articles and probate records) I spend many hours travelling to the UK to transcribe churchyards (as well as money) so it would be impossible to add everything. Since I travel quite a bit to the UK to take these photos, I am at the mercy of the weather. I will go back and take additional photos if I have nice weather, which I will post additional to the memorial. I would like to acknowledge Kay Marples, Alan Gifford, Wayne (Ashbourne) and the wonderful volunteers (especially in the Staffordshire area) that keep up the churchyards and rural cemeteries - which make it possible to photograph these graves! I understand I am very fortunate to be able to travel to the UK as much as I do, perhaps through my travels I am able to help someone find an ancestor. Feel free to use any photo you see, however please acknowledge from whom it came. Thank you!

I have been doing serious genealogy for 15 years now, focusing on my female lines, which can be difficult. I prove everything I find - by spending long hours in courthouses, cemeteries, libraries, etc. I travel to the places my ancestors hail from - mostly the UK, central Illinois, southwest Virginia and Pennsylvania. I am currently working on doing inventories for several Derbyshire and Staffordshire churchyards. I will add any pertinent information, such as birth and death dates, but only if I have proof it is correct. (I will look through parish registers as well as newspaper articles and probate records) I spend many hours travelling to the UK to transcribe churchyards (as well as money) so it would be impossible to add everything. Since I travel quite a bit to the UK to take these photos, I am at the mercy of the weather. I will go back and take additional photos if I have nice weather, which I will post additional to the memorial. I would like to acknowledge Kay Marples, Alan Gifford, Wayne (Ashbourne) and the wonderful volunteers (especially in the Staffordshire area) that keep up the churchyards and rural cemeteries - which make it possible to photograph these graves! I understand I am very fortunate to be able to travel to the UK as much as I do, perhaps through my travels I am able to help someone find an ancestor. Feel free to use any photo you see, however please acknowledge from whom it came. Thank you!