When I began searching for relatives it started with a few long lost cousins and a half brother. Once I found them, I was already connecting to a larger tree with branches which extend all over the place. What I thought would be a few months worth of work on this project has now become almost 10 years; 7 of them at Find A Grave. I simply wanted to trace roots and understand the background of my family which now has led me to connect to such wonderful people who are doing the same. This is an ongoing project and family puzzle being reconstructed piece by piece. I realize I could not do it without the fine people at FindAGrave and those who utilize this site to register graves aiming for accuracy when it's all to easy too find errors and oversights by those maintaining our ancestors. We all make mistakes & we try our best to hone our skills so we can learn to recognize & correct errors.
A few years back I would never have realized how excited one can get when opening an email to discover photos of tombstones of ancestors & records which often have information that adds some personality to our kinfolk! Even better is finding that distant relatives have actual photographs never before seen. Without having a site such as this along with Ancestry.com and Fold3.com, www.familysearch.org, would one ever imagine connecting with close & distant relatives or volunteers with sources for further documentation of our kinfolks. This is a great networking effort by all who have been bitten by the genealogy bug.
Thanks to all of you who have contributed and continue to help advance my never ending story.

When I began searching for relatives it started with a few long lost cousins and a half brother. Once I found them, I was already connecting to a larger tree with branches which extend all over the place. What I thought would be a few months worth of work on this project has now become almost 10 years; 7 of them at Find A Grave. I simply wanted to trace roots and understand the background of my family which now has led me to connect to such wonderful people who are doing the same. This is an ongoing project and family puzzle being reconstructed piece by piece. I realize I could not do it without the fine people at FindAGrave and those who utilize this site to register graves aiming for accuracy when it's all to easy too find errors and oversights by those maintaining our ancestors. We all make mistakes & we try our best to hone our skills so we can learn to recognize & correct errors.
A few years back I would never have realized how excited one can get when opening an email to discover photos of tombstones of ancestors & records which often have information that adds some personality to our kinfolk! Even better is finding that distant relatives have actual photographs never before seen. Without having a site such as this along with Ancestry.com and Fold3.com, www.familysearch.org, would one ever imagine connecting with close & distant relatives or volunteers with sources for further documentation of our kinfolks. This is a great networking effort by all who have been bitten by the genealogy bug.
Thanks to all of you who have contributed and continue to help advance my never ending story.