04/08/2023: Today is ten years since I joined the findagrave.com team. I have learned the benefits of genealogy. The more research I do, the more addicted I become. I have become a taphophile, which means I now have an excessive interest in cemeteries, funerals, and gravestones. I have to give lots of credit to this findagrave.com site and the many other contributors. I believe all lives matter, even the lives of those who have passed. I enjoy researching, transcribing, editing, and posting biographies for my pass away friends and relatives. I have authored several booklets of my fallen family members and classmates. I have assisted many families with their family history research. I do respect other's authorship by giving credits at the base of my biographies for the many sources I use. One source familysearch.org I now realize how useful the site is. It is set up differently, may not be as user friendly to some, but many resources pop up as you fill in a person's information. Researching is like doing a puzzle with many pieces, very tough at first until the pieces start falling into place. I make every effort to accurately record someone's life from birth through their passing. I do appreciate obituaries' information, but I don't post a person's obituary in the bio section, most obituaries contain their living family members' names. It is my goal to help other researchers and family members with the pieces I found to even have a better vision of the person's life. This is my retirement hobby, it is a great one. I do request some gravestone photos, my only request is that the gravestone is readable and is not covered with grass clippings. You have my permission to use any of my photos, just add a credit in the caption. On edits, if I disagree with you I will first contact you if possible to work through my concerns, I believe just declining one's edit is very hurtful. A contributor usually works very hard on researching before submitting an edit. I have found that family members most generally have the most accurate information, many legal documents have errors, even the best ones. My goal is not the number of memorials I can post, but writing a personal history for future generations. Many contributors must not know the total number of managed memorials count does not stay on their profile once they become a fallen graver. I will be reasonable with everyone and expect the same back. I have added some memorials that the burial was unknown, ashes are many times interred many years later. In these memorials I add a statement to the burial and gravesite details "if you know the location of the ashes please send the info to ldrosenberrysr@gmail", most contributors do honor this request. Yes, findagrave.com is a burial site, but many cremated memorials are never created due to this fact, all these people's lives were important too. There was one contributor that didn't honor my wishes, she just created a new memorial. I requested the maintenance of the new memorial, but she couldn't even reply back. This original memorial number was 208429536. Sad, it pains me to this day. Ken was a close classmate of mine. Creating a new memorial with the correct burial cemetery then merging my memorial into a new memorial is totally WRONG in my opinion. Most of my biographies I have authored from days of researching many resources. When requesting a transfer, you must include your contributor number with the number of the person's memorial you want transferred or use the suggestion button on that person's memorial. My biography will be removed from the person's memorial before I transfer the memorial to a different contributor, so keep this in mind. I do review and update a person's memorial on their birthday and death anniversaries, so I need access to my biographies. Your numbers count shouldn't be more important than all my hours I put in researching, creating, and updating these biographies. Anyway, please enjoy reading all my biographies creations, Loren R.

04/08/2023: Today is ten years since I joined the findagrave.com team. I have learned the benefits of genealogy. The more research I do, the more addicted I become. I have become a taphophile, which means I now have an excessive interest in cemeteries, funerals, and gravestones. I have to give lots of credit to this findagrave.com site and the many other contributors. I believe all lives matter, even the lives of those who have passed. I enjoy researching, transcribing, editing, and posting biographies for my pass away friends and relatives. I have authored several booklets of my fallen family members and classmates. I have assisted many families with their family history research. I do respect other's authorship by giving credits at the base of my biographies for the many sources I use. One source familysearch.org I now realize how useful the site is. It is set up differently, may not be as user friendly to some, but many resources pop up as you fill in a person's information. Researching is like doing a puzzle with many pieces, very tough at first until the pieces start falling into place. I make every effort to accurately record someone's life from birth through their passing. I do appreciate obituaries' information, but I don't post a person's obituary in the bio section, most obituaries contain their living family members' names. It is my goal to help other researchers and family members with the pieces I found to even have a better vision of the person's life. This is my retirement hobby, it is a great one. I do request some gravestone photos, my only request is that the gravestone is readable and is not covered with grass clippings. You have my permission to use any of my photos, just add a credit in the caption. On edits, if I disagree with you I will first contact you if possible to work through my concerns, I believe just declining one's edit is very hurtful. A contributor usually works very hard on researching before submitting an edit. I have found that family members most generally have the most accurate information, many legal documents have errors, even the best ones. My goal is not the number of memorials I can post, but writing a personal history for future generations. Many contributors must not know the total number of managed memorials count does not stay on their profile once they become a fallen graver. I will be reasonable with everyone and expect the same back. I have added some memorials that the burial was unknown, ashes are many times interred many years later. In these memorials I add a statement to the burial and gravesite details "if you know the location of the ashes please send the info to ldrosenberrysr@gmail", most contributors do honor this request. Yes, findagrave.com is a burial site, but many cremated memorials are never created due to this fact, all these people's lives were important too. There was one contributor that didn't honor my wishes, she just created a new memorial. I requested the maintenance of the new memorial, but she couldn't even reply back. This original memorial number was 208429536. Sad, it pains me to this day. Ken was a close classmate of mine. Creating a new memorial with the correct burial cemetery then merging my memorial into a new memorial is totally WRONG in my opinion. Most of my biographies I have authored from days of researching many resources. When requesting a transfer, you must include your contributor number with the number of the person's memorial you want transferred or use the suggestion button on that person's memorial. My biography will be removed from the person's memorial before I transfer the memorial to a different contributor, so keep this in mind. I do review and update a person's memorial on their birthday and death anniversaries, so I need access to my biographies. Your numbers count shouldn't be more important than all my hours I put in researching, creating, and updating these biographies. Anyway, please enjoy reading all my biographies creations, Loren R.