My interest with Find a Grave is twofold:
For the past 30 years I have kept pictures of relative graves, from when on vacation in Mexico, and here at Holy Cross. I have been keeping them in a photo album where no one can enjoy them. Through the years, my mom gave me a wealth of information on relatives and relative names. I have been working on my family tree for some number of years, using this information to help find subsequent and pertinent data. Through various search engines, I am finding documents of many relatives that are still living, many have passed, others were never met by current family members. I am eager to get as much information collected, as I possibly can, for my tree as well as to know who were my ancestors.

Now, I visit my mom at Holy Cross Cemetery. When I learned of Find a Grave, I felt compelled to volunteer to provide grave marker pictures as requested of there. I know how I feel every time I find a relative's vital record and can only hope one day I can get their pictures, and gravesite information also, and find dear friends laid to rest at Holy Cross. Because of this yearning of mine, I wish to fulfill others' requests for pictures of their loved one's resting place, which I can take action at the time that I am visiting my mom.

I am retired now and occasionally will visit a cemetery at random. As I look at the grave markers, I imagine the person at rest; staying behind as family moved out of their former residential areas close by or have passed. I think of how due to age, failing health, and/or not having the resources to travel, families are not able to visit their deceased family and friends here. Using modern technology, and electronics to make virtual visits, is awesome, but we still are in need of volunteers to do the footwork, taking pictures, and posting them to Find a Grave, that will further fill that void in spirit; that provides that last or missing picture in a photo album or memorial to close the circle and complete the story of their loved one's life cycle.

At times, when I visit the cemetery with my granddaughters, leading through example, they enjoy clearing grave markers, respectfully, of grass clippings and leaves that collect in the little bunker that forms around the markers. Some may even get a little grooming to allow the markers to show through the creeping grass growing over them.

In addition, reading some of the comments and praises from the families that receive their pictures as requested, makes me feel so pleased that I discovered this site to be of service.

My interest with Find a Grave is twofold:
For the past 30 years I have kept pictures of relative graves, from when on vacation in Mexico, and here at Holy Cross. I have been keeping them in a photo album where no one can enjoy them. Through the years, my mom gave me a wealth of information on relatives and relative names. I have been working on my family tree for some number of years, using this information to help find subsequent and pertinent data. Through various search engines, I am finding documents of many relatives that are still living, many have passed, others were never met by current family members. I am eager to get as much information collected, as I possibly can, for my tree as well as to know who were my ancestors.

Now, I visit my mom at Holy Cross Cemetery. When I learned of Find a Grave, I felt compelled to volunteer to provide grave marker pictures as requested of there. I know how I feel every time I find a relative's vital record and can only hope one day I can get their pictures, and gravesite information also, and find dear friends laid to rest at Holy Cross. Because of this yearning of mine, I wish to fulfill others' requests for pictures of their loved one's resting place, which I can take action at the time that I am visiting my mom.

I am retired now and occasionally will visit a cemetery at random. As I look at the grave markers, I imagine the person at rest; staying behind as family moved out of their former residential areas close by or have passed. I think of how due to age, failing health, and/or not having the resources to travel, families are not able to visit their deceased family and friends here. Using modern technology, and electronics to make virtual visits, is awesome, but we still are in need of volunteers to do the footwork, taking pictures, and posting them to Find a Grave, that will further fill that void in spirit; that provides that last or missing picture in a photo album or memorial to close the circle and complete the story of their loved one's life cycle.

At times, when I visit the cemetery with my granddaughters, leading through example, they enjoy clearing grave markers, respectfully, of grass clippings and leaves that collect in the little bunker that forms around the markers. Some may even get a little grooming to allow the markers to show through the creeping grass growing over them.

In addition, reading some of the comments and praises from the families that receive their pictures as requested, makes me feel so pleased that I discovered this site to be of service.