Respect for relatives seems to be a lifelong thought ingrained. "Visiting" cemeteries is something I did as a girl with my mother and grandmother. Grandma would wipe dust away from the protected picture on her son's headstone, deceased at age 16; I took up that gesture. My husband & I lived near Civil War era cemeteries in East Texas, and I learned that taking pictures of headstones for info was important. My friend, head of a Texas State historical home, did grave rubbings with paper and wax crayons, which was new to me. Now I'm using FindAGrave to build several family trees ranging all of Texas to Ohio, Iowa, and Louisiana.

Respect for relatives seems to be a lifelong thought ingrained. "Visiting" cemeteries is something I did as a girl with my mother and grandmother. Grandma would wipe dust away from the protected picture on her son's headstone, deceased at age 16; I took up that gesture. My husband & I lived near Civil War era cemeteries in East Texas, and I learned that taking pictures of headstones for info was important. My friend, head of a Texas State historical home, did grave rubbings with paper and wax crayons, which was new to me. Now I'm using FindAGrave to build several family trees ranging all of Texas to Ohio, Iowa, and Louisiana.