Greetings all and thanks for visiting our page. We are the Barnards and residents of Altavista (Campbell Co.), VA.

We enjoy researching family history. Ours include the following surnames:

On JP's side: Barnard, Witt, Hall, Bell, Updike, Adams, Lynch, and Leftwich.

On Lori's side: Beach, Davis, Henderson, Benefield, Sprague, and most recently, Callaway.

To our relatives:
Our greatest interest has been discovering "the story" behind each of our relatives; where they grew up, moved to, their interests, accomplishments, and hardships. We would love to hear from you, share our family stories, and learn more about the ancestors we share.

For everyone else:
As time permits, we are happy to help others find and photograph their relative's graves.

Feel free to use any of our photos on another site, no permission or credits required.

Requesting a transfer:
We encourage the transfer of memorials that we maintain, even to a friend or relative closer than us. All we ask is that you not just own the memorial, but maintain it. Share your memories by adding to the memorial's bio.

Our transfer requests:
We seek transfer requests only when we have fairly good additions for a memorial's bio. We always leave in-tact any existing bio work that others have added, even if we don't agree with their write-up.

Writing a really good bio is an intense process. We spend hundreds of hours every year researching our relative's history. Sometimes we tweak a bio for weeks, making on-the-fly edits, until we have exhausted the current resources, corrected punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

One of our biggest pet-peaves is someone who refuses to transfer a memorial. To us, it's not about ownership; it's about preserving our family's history for future generations...period!

If you really insist on owning the memorial for some reason, let us know. We will gladly transfer it back to you. All we ask is that you leave our work in-tact. It just makes our life a whole lot easier having direct access to a memorial while working on the bio.

My tweaks to a FAG memorial:
We've been asked how we add hyperlinks within the text of a bio. Email us and we'll send the instructions. It's really easy as FAG webpages easily accept embedded html code.

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Hopefully our small contributions to Find A Grave are helpful to you and thank everyone who has contributed along side us.

God bless,
JP and Lori

Greetings all and thanks for visiting our page. We are the Barnards and residents of Altavista (Campbell Co.), VA.

We enjoy researching family history. Ours include the following surnames:

On JP's side: Barnard, Witt, Hall, Bell, Updike, Adams, Lynch, and Leftwich.

On Lori's side: Beach, Davis, Henderson, Benefield, Sprague, and most recently, Callaway.

To our relatives:
Our greatest interest has been discovering "the story" behind each of our relatives; where they grew up, moved to, their interests, accomplishments, and hardships. We would love to hear from you, share our family stories, and learn more about the ancestors we share.

For everyone else:
As time permits, we are happy to help others find and photograph their relative's graves.

Feel free to use any of our photos on another site, no permission or credits required.

Requesting a transfer:
We encourage the transfer of memorials that we maintain, even to a friend or relative closer than us. All we ask is that you not just own the memorial, but maintain it. Share your memories by adding to the memorial's bio.

Our transfer requests:
We seek transfer requests only when we have fairly good additions for a memorial's bio. We always leave in-tact any existing bio work that others have added, even if we don't agree with their write-up.

Writing a really good bio is an intense process. We spend hundreds of hours every year researching our relative's history. Sometimes we tweak a bio for weeks, making on-the-fly edits, until we have exhausted the current resources, corrected punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

One of our biggest pet-peaves is someone who refuses to transfer a memorial. To us, it's not about ownership; it's about preserving our family's history for future generations...period!

If you really insist on owning the memorial for some reason, let us know. We will gladly transfer it back to you. All we ask is that you leave our work in-tact. It just makes our life a whole lot easier having direct access to a memorial while working on the bio.

My tweaks to a FAG memorial:
We've been asked how we add hyperlinks within the text of a bio. Email us and we'll send the instructions. It's really easy as FAG webpages easily accept embedded html code.

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Hopefully our small contributions to Find A Grave are helpful to you and thank everyone who has contributed along side us.

God bless,
JP and Lori