IF YOU WANT ME TO TRANSFER A MEMORIAL, please read https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Request-to-Manage#transferguidelines IF the memorialized person is not a close relative of mine, I may transfer. However, IF the memorialized person is of interest to me in my research, I require that you email me with your name and details about your relationship to the deceased (for example, the names of those who connect you to the deceased).

I started doing family history research in 1978. By 1994 I stepped-up my efforts, and in 1997 I completed the National Genealogical Society's "American Genealogy" Course. I take my research seriously and I create new memorials with diligence using one or more sources such as grave markers, death certificates, and obituaries. If I have created a "Body lost" memorial (I do so infrequently) for someone whose final disposition you have knowledge of, please share and I will happily update it, crediting you by contributor number. OR, if you have created a memorial with the info (citing sources) I will happily report my "duplicate" to be merged into yours. (I am less interested in the number of memorials I manage than I am in people being lost to history, unmemorialized.)

Thank you to those who suggest plot information, who provide gravesite photos - even when there is no marker. I do most of my research online and acknowledge that can be a limiting factor. I appreciate volunteers who are able to go to cemeteries and uncover these details.

I am descended from Orange County, Indiana, pioneers on my father's side. My mother's kin were from Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio.

When researching my own lines I often learn a great deal about related families and others within their communities, so in addition to finding and recording my own kin's final disposition, I also do so for others. I like to link "orphan" memorials with those of family members, having an especially tender spot in my heart for children, young widows and widowers, and soldiers.

IF YOU WANT ME TO TRANSFER A MEMORIAL, please read https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Request-to-Manage#transferguidelines IF the memorialized person is not a close relative of mine, I may transfer. However, IF the memorialized person is of interest to me in my research, I require that you email me with your name and details about your relationship to the deceased (for example, the names of those who connect you to the deceased).

I started doing family history research in 1978. By 1994 I stepped-up my efforts, and in 1997 I completed the National Genealogical Society's "American Genealogy" Course. I take my research seriously and I create new memorials with diligence using one or more sources such as grave markers, death certificates, and obituaries. If I have created a "Body lost" memorial (I do so infrequently) for someone whose final disposition you have knowledge of, please share and I will happily update it, crediting you by contributor number. OR, if you have created a memorial with the info (citing sources) I will happily report my "duplicate" to be merged into yours. (I am less interested in the number of memorials I manage than I am in people being lost to history, unmemorialized.)

Thank you to those who suggest plot information, who provide gravesite photos - even when there is no marker. I do most of my research online and acknowledge that can be a limiting factor. I appreciate volunteers who are able to go to cemeteries and uncover these details.

I am descended from Orange County, Indiana, pioneers on my father's side. My mother's kin were from Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio.

When researching my own lines I often learn a great deal about related families and others within their communities, so in addition to finding and recording my own kin's final disposition, I also do so for others. I like to link "orphan" memorials with those of family members, having an especially tender spot in my heart for children, young widows and widowers, and soldiers.