Genealogist since high school (graduated in 1979) from Marion L Steele High School, Amherst OH).
I am a family historian for two different families in two different states - Michigan & Pennsylvania.

As a descendant of family members from two different states (Michigan & Pennsylvania) this means I subscribe to newspapers that either do not keep their obituaries on their websites for long periods of time some times less than 7 days. that are NOT on the Internet. If I discover that one of my family members has a "find-a-grave" listing and some information needs to be updated...I will be supplying the information from the obituary in my possession, if I have it available. Genealogy has become an supplemental income due to lost job in 2005). This small business owner me) does a lot of VOLUNTEER work in the Genealogy field.

One of those ways - is by submitting and working with obituaries of Amherst Schools Alumni - whether they graduated from Amherst Central High School, Central High School, Amherst High School, Marion L Steele High School or Amherst Steele High School. Every Amherst Alumni graduate deserves to be remembered.

I maintain a large personal spreadsheet (to a be a future private / personal database) of Amherst High School Alumni who have passed away. Part of the information is gathered from Find-a-Grave, and obituaries that many members of Amherst Alumni have posted on the Facebook Marion L Steele High School Memorial Wall group of their family members / friends / colleagues, etc. You'd be amazed the number of Class Historians looking for missing classmates - both living and deceased. I am one of those Class Historians.

Krista K Gable (eaglekkg), am Secretary & Historian for the Annual Bowman Family Reunion that meets each year. The descendants of this reunion - are the Families & Descendants of Johannes Bowman (he had 5 known children: Abraham, Magdalena (nee Bowman) Balschbach / Balsbaugh, Henry,Veronica (nee Bowman)Schneider, and Jacob Bowman Sr (most of the reunion attendees are descended from Jacob Bowman Sr and his 2 wives - Anna Beam and Barbara (surname not confirmed...working on it though). Magdalena's descendants are numerous! As are Abraham's and Henry's.

It appears that the original reunion met in the 1920s into the 1930s then went "on hold" until after the depression & the war.

Uncle Lester G Bowman ( Find A Grave Memorial# 118340803) recreated the current reunion in the early 1960s after World War II; he contacted all the family he could remember from the original reunion. He attended the original reunion as an elementary age child.

Find A Grave Memorial# 56882583 is my grandfather.
Find A Grave Memorial# 56882585 is my grandmother.
Find A Grave Memorial# 12644936 is my uncle.
Find A Grave Memorial# 148359831 is my father he was a Mesothelioma (Asbestos) Cancer patient from 2011 - 2015.

Genealogist since high school (graduated in 1979) from Marion L Steele High School, Amherst OH).
I am a family historian for two different families in two different states - Michigan & Pennsylvania.

As a descendant of family members from two different states (Michigan & Pennsylvania) this means I subscribe to newspapers that either do not keep their obituaries on their websites for long periods of time some times less than 7 days. that are NOT on the Internet. If I discover that one of my family members has a "find-a-grave" listing and some information needs to be updated...I will be supplying the information from the obituary in my possession, if I have it available. Genealogy has become an supplemental income due to lost job in 2005). This small business owner me) does a lot of VOLUNTEER work in the Genealogy field.

One of those ways - is by submitting and working with obituaries of Amherst Schools Alumni - whether they graduated from Amherst Central High School, Central High School, Amherst High School, Marion L Steele High School or Amherst Steele High School. Every Amherst Alumni graduate deserves to be remembered.

I maintain a large personal spreadsheet (to a be a future private / personal database) of Amherst High School Alumni who have passed away. Part of the information is gathered from Find-a-Grave, and obituaries that many members of Amherst Alumni have posted on the Facebook Marion L Steele High School Memorial Wall group of their family members / friends / colleagues, etc. You'd be amazed the number of Class Historians looking for missing classmates - both living and deceased. I am one of those Class Historians.

Krista K Gable (eaglekkg), am Secretary & Historian for the Annual Bowman Family Reunion that meets each year. The descendants of this reunion - are the Families & Descendants of Johannes Bowman (he had 5 known children: Abraham, Magdalena (nee Bowman) Balschbach / Balsbaugh, Henry,Veronica (nee Bowman)Schneider, and Jacob Bowman Sr (most of the reunion attendees are descended from Jacob Bowman Sr and his 2 wives - Anna Beam and Barbara (surname not confirmed...working on it though). Magdalena's descendants are numerous! As are Abraham's and Henry's.

It appears that the original reunion met in the 1920s into the 1930s then went "on hold" until after the depression & the war.

Uncle Lester G Bowman ( Find A Grave Memorial# 118340803) recreated the current reunion in the early 1960s after World War II; he contacted all the family he could remember from the original reunion. He attended the original reunion as an elementary age child.

Find A Grave Memorial# 56882583 is my grandfather.
Find A Grave Memorial# 56882585 is my grandmother.
Find A Grave Memorial# 12644936 is my uncle.
Find A Grave Memorial# 148359831 is my father he was a Mesothelioma (Asbestos) Cancer patient from 2011 - 2015.