What a joy it is to have this photo of my maternal grandfather. This is one of the finds that got me started researching my family history. The one thing that really got me going was trying to find my mom's baby brother born in 1920 and died at the age of four. This baby was my grandmother's first child by her first husband who passed away in 1922. We searched in Danville, Va. in March 2011 but could not find him. I suspect the grave was never marked permanently and over the years any evidence of a marker disappeared. I even talked to the local cemetery supervisor and the funeral home. They found no evidence of a baby boy being buried on his death date. I questioned the supervisor about putting a marker in Danville but we would have had to purchase a lot and a marker. We decided instead to add a marker in his memory near his mother my grandmother. I love FAG. It was the first search program I found while searching for my family information. It makes such a difference for me and my research when I find an obituary. Sometimes it is hard to provide one especially if it is an older burial date. What I have seen over the years is some folks like to abbreviate the information that is available for the person and others will complete the memorial by filling in all the known data including all known family members that are deceased. Some people pick and choose what they want to include in the Bio. What I saw recently is someone actually leaves out part of the obituary that the family has written. They leave out the part about where they were when they passed and what happened in their illness. I see that information as very important especially when it is someone that I know. I'm not sure how to change that. The answer I guess is to request management for the memorial. Also I see people reference the memorial as "their" memorial. I look at this as information for others.

What a joy it is to have this photo of my maternal grandfather. This is one of the finds that got me started researching my family history. The one thing that really got me going was trying to find my mom's baby brother born in 1920 and died at the age of four. This baby was my grandmother's first child by her first husband who passed away in 1922. We searched in Danville, Va. in March 2011 but could not find him. I suspect the grave was never marked permanently and over the years any evidence of a marker disappeared. I even talked to the local cemetery supervisor and the funeral home. They found no evidence of a baby boy being buried on his death date. I questioned the supervisor about putting a marker in Danville but we would have had to purchase a lot and a marker. We decided instead to add a marker in his memory near his mother my grandmother. I love FAG. It was the first search program I found while searching for my family information. It makes such a difference for me and my research when I find an obituary. Sometimes it is hard to provide one especially if it is an older burial date. What I have seen over the years is some folks like to abbreviate the information that is available for the person and others will complete the memorial by filling in all the known data including all known family members that are deceased. Some people pick and choose what they want to include in the Bio. What I saw recently is someone actually leaves out part of the obituary that the family has written. They leave out the part about where they were when they passed and what happened in their illness. I see that information as very important especially when it is someone that I know. I'm not sure how to change that. The answer I guess is to request management for the memorial. Also I see people reference the memorial as "their" memorial. I look at this as information for others.