I have been interested in genealogy since I was a child...back when I thought tracing your family lines meant merely creating a family pedigree chart. I still have those charts which I created all those years ago as I spoke to my parents and grandparents about their families. They have helped me tremendously now that I have the time and tools to pursue this exciting hobby.

Researching has enabled me to reconnect with many family members with whom I had lost touch, and also become better acquainted with many who were "just names" when I was younger. I have learned so much about the people whose names were part of many adult conversations as I was growing up. I only wish I would have had the insight to listen more closely as a child so that I would have learned more about their lives and personalities first hand, instead of through cold data on-line, in libraries and government offices.

FAG is a wonderful tool for many reasons. It is a great resource for those, like myself, who wish to research and better understand from where their families originated. It provides comfort to many who are separated by vast distances from their departed loved ones and cannot visit their graves in person. It allows many, many people the opportunity to help gather and preserve the history of those who came before us. The individuals who volunteer their free time to create and photograph memorials are to be commended for all of the hours that they devote to helping others and honoring the deceased before more of those final, tangible records disappear. I wish that I were physically able to go "cemetery stomping", but alas, my feet no longer allow it.

As I research my own family lines, I continually run across information (obits, news article, funeral cards, etc.) that pertain to individuals of those families who married into my own lines. When possible, I request the transfer of those memorials so that I may update and link them (always with a little extra research) in the hope of one day transferring these memorials on to a true descendant with the additional gift of information that may, otherwise, be lost. I appreciate all of those individuals who willingly transfer memorials to me outside of the traditional guidelines. It is my goal to honor the deceased and care for them until such time as they can be reunited with their own family members. On the rare occasion that I am able to traverse an easily accessible cemetery, I try to take photographs of surrounding headstones and then post those photos to their corresponding memorials. If no memorial exists, I will create one in the hope that one day, someone may finally locate that missing relative for whom they have been searching.

Our direct family lines are: SNIDER, FLORY RECKER, KELLEY, SANNEMAN, LAGRANGE, LAUER, TATE, CHARLTON, MOONEY, MCBRIDE, PAYNE, EVERETT.

I have been interested in genealogy since I was a child...back when I thought tracing your family lines meant merely creating a family pedigree chart. I still have those charts which I created all those years ago as I spoke to my parents and grandparents about their families. They have helped me tremendously now that I have the time and tools to pursue this exciting hobby.

Researching has enabled me to reconnect with many family members with whom I had lost touch, and also become better acquainted with many who were "just names" when I was younger. I have learned so much about the people whose names were part of many adult conversations as I was growing up. I only wish I would have had the insight to listen more closely as a child so that I would have learned more about their lives and personalities first hand, instead of through cold data on-line, in libraries and government offices.

FAG is a wonderful tool for many reasons. It is a great resource for those, like myself, who wish to research and better understand from where their families originated. It provides comfort to many who are separated by vast distances from their departed loved ones and cannot visit their graves in person. It allows many, many people the opportunity to help gather and preserve the history of those who came before us. The individuals who volunteer their free time to create and photograph memorials are to be commended for all of the hours that they devote to helping others and honoring the deceased before more of those final, tangible records disappear. I wish that I were physically able to go "cemetery stomping", but alas, my feet no longer allow it.

As I research my own family lines, I continually run across information (obits, news article, funeral cards, etc.) that pertain to individuals of those families who married into my own lines. When possible, I request the transfer of those memorials so that I may update and link them (always with a little extra research) in the hope of one day transferring these memorials on to a true descendant with the additional gift of information that may, otherwise, be lost. I appreciate all of those individuals who willingly transfer memorials to me outside of the traditional guidelines. It is my goal to honor the deceased and care for them until such time as they can be reunited with their own family members. On the rare occasion that I am able to traverse an easily accessible cemetery, I try to take photographs of surrounding headstones and then post those photos to their corresponding memorials. If no memorial exists, I will create one in the hope that one day, someone may finally locate that missing relative for whom they have been searching.

Our direct family lines are: SNIDER, FLORY RECKER, KELLEY, SANNEMAN, LAGRANGE, LAUER, TATE, CHARLTON, MOONEY, MCBRIDE, PAYNE, EVERETT.