Greetings from New Mexico!

I'm a retired civil servant/IT guy who's been working on family history since 2002 and wishes he had started a whole lot sooner.

Edit Requests: I'm grateful for all the help I can get. Happy to enter info provided through Find A Grave's "Suggest Edits" dialogue; will do my best to answer questions from anyone, logged in member or not. I don't usually decline edit requests; if I do, I'll tell you why and ask you to resubmit (and share your sources!). If I'm taking too long to accept your request, please email or message me before requesting an edit from Find A Grave.

I submit a lot of edit requests myself. I'm more interested in accuracy than speed; if you're unsure of what I've sent you, please say so and let's compare notes. I'm also happy to let a request sit for as much time as you need. If I've worked my way into a family or cemetery where you have a lot of memorials and you'd like me to slow down or pause, just let me know.

Obituaries: My preference is not to include full obituary texts, especially if they name any currently living individuals or are under someone else's copyright. If it's already viewable online (e.g. newspapers.com, newspaper or funeral home website, etc.), I'm happy to add a citation with a hyperlink to it on the memorial. See here for an example.

Management requests: if you want to take over one of my memorials and are more closely related to the subject than I am or have some other connection that I don't, just let me know.

Caveat to all of the above: I'm a big fan of following the rules, but I'm also a reasonable guy. Message me, and let's work it out. Genealogists sharing their knowledge is kind of the idea here, isn't it?

Photographs: you may use my Find A Grave photographs outside of Find A Grave subject to a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
In short: give me photo credit, please!
Please also note that some of the images that I've posted belong to others -- check the notes?
Many, many, many thanks to those of you who've added photos to my memorials!!!

Greetings from New Mexico!

I'm a retired civil servant/IT guy who's been working on family history since 2002 and wishes he had started a whole lot sooner.

Edit Requests: I'm grateful for all the help I can get. Happy to enter info provided through Find A Grave's "Suggest Edits" dialogue; will do my best to answer questions from anyone, logged in member or not. I don't usually decline edit requests; if I do, I'll tell you why and ask you to resubmit (and share your sources!). If I'm taking too long to accept your request, please email or message me before requesting an edit from Find A Grave.

I submit a lot of edit requests myself. I'm more interested in accuracy than speed; if you're unsure of what I've sent you, please say so and let's compare notes. I'm also happy to let a request sit for as much time as you need. If I've worked my way into a family or cemetery where you have a lot of memorials and you'd like me to slow down or pause, just let me know.

Obituaries: My preference is not to include full obituary texts, especially if they name any currently living individuals or are under someone else's copyright. If it's already viewable online (e.g. newspapers.com, newspaper or funeral home website, etc.), I'm happy to add a citation with a hyperlink to it on the memorial. See here for an example.

Management requests: if you want to take over one of my memorials and are more closely related to the subject than I am or have some other connection that I don't, just let me know.

Caveat to all of the above: I'm a big fan of following the rules, but I'm also a reasonable guy. Message me, and let's work it out. Genealogists sharing their knowledge is kind of the idea here, isn't it?

Photographs: you may use my Find A Grave photographs outside of Find A Grave subject to a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
In short: give me photo credit, please!
Please also note that some of the images that I've posted belong to others -- check the notes?
Many, many, many thanks to those of you who've added photos to my memorials!!!