My father and his sister got me interested in genealogy in about 1973 when aunt Kelley mailed me a hand written copy of what she and my dad had accumulated. It was about 1/4" thick and I still cherish it.

Over the years I have captured information in Familytree Maker. But it is not easy to share that information with all the family members who are interested. Findagrave enables me to share now and in the future.

I roam the near and far branches of my family tree looking for missing links and missing information and fix what I am able to. One of the tools I use to determine relationships I am unsure of is the census information at Ancestry.

As of July 2017 I am reading the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War about the Petrol Company and posting birth dates, locations, bio information on the deaths of individuals and events surrounding their death to FAG. Many of the men are already in FAG but there is no bio information available, typically only a name and date of death. I have read other volumes (e.g., Engineers) in the collection and may go back and post what bio information is available to FAG.

With the corona virus pandemic of 2020 and resultant isolation from the general public my sister Pam Miller of Alliance Nebraska and I have time on our hands. So she is going through the collection of photos, bios, obits, etc. that our parents, Richard and Olga Bowman accumulated over the decades and sending items to me for adding information to the associated memorials where we can find them. From the obits and census records I am also finding people not currently linked to parents and spouses and submitting edits to get them linked. We are also working on the family of her son-in-law.

As of June 2020 I am working with the wife of my mother's nephew and her daughter to connect people in her family. Added several memorials where they didn't already exist.

As of September 2020 we have been working on the family of my wife's sister-in-law. In addition, I came across numerous bios from about 1921 for people who settled the Panhandle of Nebraska and I have been submitting them for incorporation into memorials where I can find them and be certain I have the correct person. I find bios and obits to be invaluable in understanding family and I believe they should be incorporated when found.

My father and his sister got me interested in genealogy in about 1973 when aunt Kelley mailed me a hand written copy of what she and my dad had accumulated. It was about 1/4" thick and I still cherish it.

Over the years I have captured information in Familytree Maker. But it is not easy to share that information with all the family members who are interested. Findagrave enables me to share now and in the future.

I roam the near and far branches of my family tree looking for missing links and missing information and fix what I am able to. One of the tools I use to determine relationships I am unsure of is the census information at Ancestry.

As of July 2017 I am reading the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War about the Petrol Company and posting birth dates, locations, bio information on the deaths of individuals and events surrounding their death to FAG. Many of the men are already in FAG but there is no bio information available, typically only a name and date of death. I have read other volumes (e.g., Engineers) in the collection and may go back and post what bio information is available to FAG.

With the corona virus pandemic of 2020 and resultant isolation from the general public my sister Pam Miller of Alliance Nebraska and I have time on our hands. So she is going through the collection of photos, bios, obits, etc. that our parents, Richard and Olga Bowman accumulated over the decades and sending items to me for adding information to the associated memorials where we can find them. From the obits and census records I am also finding people not currently linked to parents and spouses and submitting edits to get them linked. We are also working on the family of her son-in-law.

As of June 2020 I am working with the wife of my mother's nephew and her daughter to connect people in her family. Added several memorials where they didn't already exist.

As of September 2020 we have been working on the family of my wife's sister-in-law. In addition, I came across numerous bios from about 1921 for people who settled the Panhandle of Nebraska and I have been submitting them for incorporation into memorials where I can find them and be certain I have the correct person. I find bios and obits to be invaluable in understanding family and I believe they should be incorporated when found.