I have been interested in my "roots" since I was about 13 years old, but have only been seriously researching since 1996. Most of my ancestors migrated to Georgia from Virginia and the Carolina's starting just before and shortly after the Revolutionary War. It seems their offspring couldn't stay put and kept going to the newly opened frontiers until settling in Cental and West Georgia. However some still had the "bug" and headed further west to Texas, Arizona and even California. One branch emigrated from Prussia to the Dakotas in the late 1870's then came to Georgia by marrying into the family in 1920. The ancestors seemed to be quiet prolific, so I have spent many hours "talking to ghosts" while traipsing through cemeteries and family graveyards and the woods looking for that elusive ancestor's burial site in Georgia. Ancestor surnames, in case you want to contact me to compare notes or share research, are Cosby, Mitcham, Phillips, Atkinson, Owen, Embry, Becker, Berry, Thomas, Hardaway and Ray.

With the exception of a very few, the memorials that I have added are my ancestors - some direct, some their siblings and siblings spouses. I am glad to share my research. Please consider all headstone and cemetery photos as public domain and you can copy and use them. I have posted a few family photos also. If you are related and want a copy for your family records, you are more than welcome to copy them, but please let me know that you are doing so. Please do not publish them elsewhere without my permission.

If you are more directly related than I am to someone whose memorial that I have created or maintain, even if it is someone in my large family circle, I am more than happy to transfer the memorial to you.

I have been interested in my "roots" since I was about 13 years old, but have only been seriously researching since 1996. Most of my ancestors migrated to Georgia from Virginia and the Carolina's starting just before and shortly after the Revolutionary War. It seems their offspring couldn't stay put and kept going to the newly opened frontiers until settling in Cental and West Georgia. However some still had the "bug" and headed further west to Texas, Arizona and even California. One branch emigrated from Prussia to the Dakotas in the late 1870's then came to Georgia by marrying into the family in 1920. The ancestors seemed to be quiet prolific, so I have spent many hours "talking to ghosts" while traipsing through cemeteries and family graveyards and the woods looking for that elusive ancestor's burial site in Georgia. Ancestor surnames, in case you want to contact me to compare notes or share research, are Cosby, Mitcham, Phillips, Atkinson, Owen, Embry, Becker, Berry, Thomas, Hardaway and Ray.

With the exception of a very few, the memorials that I have added are my ancestors - some direct, some their siblings and siblings spouses. I am glad to share my research. Please consider all headstone and cemetery photos as public domain and you can copy and use them. I have posted a few family photos also. If you are related and want a copy for your family records, you are more than welcome to copy them, but please let me know that you are doing so. Please do not publish them elsewhere without my permission.

If you are more directly related than I am to someone whose memorial that I have created or maintain, even if it is someone in my large family circle, I am more than happy to transfer the memorial to you.