A great thanks goes to those who have spent countless hours inputting data and making it available. While my own efforts may seem less, I do have a good idea the toil and effort behind these entries and appreciate the connections families are helped to make because of it. For all those sincere, helpful volunteers, THANK YOU!

A very special THANK YOU to those volunteers who spend many an hour and perhaps days & weeks looking for and finding those hard to find, forgotten and perhaps very overgrown cemeteries and graves and provide pictures so we have a frame of reference for our ancestors. Some go not only the extra mile but even more so to find obscure, mostly hidden cemeteries that but for these intrepid searchers would remain unfound and perhaps lost for all time. I am very grateful and thankful.

To those of you who take volunteer photos, please remember we need the writing to be a legible as possible. If you could brush aside the twigs, leaves, dirt or grass it sometimes is a great help. We usually need those dates to place our family in their proper order in our family tree and often grave stones are our only source for the information, especially on older graves.
Some have taken pictures of a fallen stone. The stone is face down so no writing is visible. It is disheartening to see a picture included on the description to got to the memorial to find a blank stone face down. Some stones may be hard to lift but others can at least be turned over to photograph the writing. Otherwise your photo is basically useless unless we live nearby to go there and if we did there would be no reason to ask for a photograph. Please, please keep in mind the WHY of what we would like to see in a photo. We would like to verify the person and add their data, such as exists on most headstones, to our family record. To document a blank stone is not helpful. Thank you.

I appreciate respectful replies and when someone is less that courteous I will not communicate. We may all make some mistakes at times and I appreciate corrections. But I don't appreciate being dissed for what is a minor mistake which I correct as soon as I can. Covid-19 and other issues have created challenges for many of us. I no longer have my email available as I find there are those who instead of using the established edit system insist on sending me an email to do that for them. I do check edits but duplicates need to be addressed within the system for that. If you don't want to do that any changes may not be made as emailing me is not how to communicate. Find a Grave has been very diligent about providing the tools necessary for all edits, please use them.

Those who do not wish to add memorials or add informative information to a memorial but merely want the memorial turned over to them because it is in their area and are not related at all, baffle me. I put lots of work into my memorials to make them as complete as possible to help people find these memorials. I do not do the numbers others may but I try to do a good job on those I have. To just expect me to give them away after I've done all the work, for no reason other than being unwilling to create their own seems odd to me. I don't know their reason but for those who have lived in an area of a cemetery for years but not created any memorial or just one or two and then to want the work of others turned over to them seems strange, when they could have created those memorial themselves a long time ago as these are not recent deaths. Just my opinion.

Many of my memorials are related to me some more distant than others but still related. I do and have turned over hundreds of memorials to be managed by others, conscientious others who are related in some way and very diligent in their own work. I applaud them and will do my best to turn over those related to them. Otherwise, don't ask for my work.

My photos are copyrighted and all rights reserved.
Thank you.

A great thanks goes to those who have spent countless hours inputting data and making it available. While my own efforts may seem less, I do have a good idea the toil and effort behind these entries and appreciate the connections families are helped to make because of it. For all those sincere, helpful volunteers, THANK YOU!

A very special THANK YOU to those volunteers who spend many an hour and perhaps days & weeks looking for and finding those hard to find, forgotten and perhaps very overgrown cemeteries and graves and provide pictures so we have a frame of reference for our ancestors. Some go not only the extra mile but even more so to find obscure, mostly hidden cemeteries that but for these intrepid searchers would remain unfound and perhaps lost for all time. I am very grateful and thankful.

To those of you who take volunteer photos, please remember we need the writing to be a legible as possible. If you could brush aside the twigs, leaves, dirt or grass it sometimes is a great help. We usually need those dates to place our family in their proper order in our family tree and often grave stones are our only source for the information, especially on older graves.
Some have taken pictures of a fallen stone. The stone is face down so no writing is visible. It is disheartening to see a picture included on the description to got to the memorial to find a blank stone face down. Some stones may be hard to lift but others can at least be turned over to photograph the writing. Otherwise your photo is basically useless unless we live nearby to go there and if we did there would be no reason to ask for a photograph. Please, please keep in mind the WHY of what we would like to see in a photo. We would like to verify the person and add their data, such as exists on most headstones, to our family record. To document a blank stone is not helpful. Thank you.

I appreciate respectful replies and when someone is less that courteous I will not communicate. We may all make some mistakes at times and I appreciate corrections. But I don't appreciate being dissed for what is a minor mistake which I correct as soon as I can. Covid-19 and other issues have created challenges for many of us. I no longer have my email available as I find there are those who instead of using the established edit system insist on sending me an email to do that for them. I do check edits but duplicates need to be addressed within the system for that. If you don't want to do that any changes may not be made as emailing me is not how to communicate. Find a Grave has been very diligent about providing the tools necessary for all edits, please use them.

Those who do not wish to add memorials or add informative information to a memorial but merely want the memorial turned over to them because it is in their area and are not related at all, baffle me. I put lots of work into my memorials to make them as complete as possible to help people find these memorials. I do not do the numbers others may but I try to do a good job on those I have. To just expect me to give them away after I've done all the work, for no reason other than being unwilling to create their own seems odd to me. I don't know their reason but for those who have lived in an area of a cemetery for years but not created any memorial or just one or two and then to want the work of others turned over to them seems strange, when they could have created those memorial themselves a long time ago as these are not recent deaths. Just my opinion.

Many of my memorials are related to me some more distant than others but still related. I do and have turned over hundreds of memorials to be managed by others, conscientious others who are related in some way and very diligent in their own work. I applaud them and will do my best to turn over those related to them. Otherwise, don't ask for my work.

My photos are copyrighted and all rights reserved.
Thank you.