I'm Barbara HARMON Johnson. My Dad knew little about his family. He did not even know where he was born until he obtained with the help of his older siblings, a delayed Birth Certificate. I had to make a Cemetery rubbing of my Great Grandmother's unreadable tombstone to convince myself & my cousins that she was the dau/of Hector & J. Ross. My cousins had told me she was the dau. of the brother of Abigail Smith Adams, the wife & mother of 2 US Presidents. I have found incorrect tombstones, pictures or records that no longer exist, & inaccurate info. in books, printed publications, & many of my family's inaccurate stories. In a few cemeteries, I visited, I found pieces of tombstones thrown over the fence. These are some of the reasons Findagrave is so important.

The online research of a distant relative helped me connect my family to the right Harmon tree which is the reason collaborating with other researchers is so very important. I had made the common mistake of assuming Amos Harmon was not a common name. I believe keeping an open mind & appreciating the research of others is very important in doing Genealogy. Educatiional textbooks water down history, but by reading newspaper articles & books while doing Genealogy, I have obtained a clearer picture of what life was like for our ancestors a Century or so ago. After I started researching in the 1990's, & found so many Genealogical errors, I sent for LDS films & microfiche of cemetery, will, census, & marriage records. My goal is to write an accurate biography for all my Findagrave memorials with as many resources as I can find because some managers of memorials of my relatives refuse to make suggested edits in spite of all the evidence that I have. Thankfully these managers are indeed rare because most of us want to keep Findagrave Memorials as accurate as possible. My other goal is to link as many findagraves as I can to their relatives.

I'm Barbara HARMON Johnson. My Dad knew little about his family. He did not even know where he was born until he obtained with the help of his older siblings, a delayed Birth Certificate. I had to make a Cemetery rubbing of my Great Grandmother's unreadable tombstone to convince myself & my cousins that she was the dau/of Hector & J. Ross. My cousins had told me she was the dau. of the brother of Abigail Smith Adams, the wife & mother of 2 US Presidents. I have found incorrect tombstones, pictures or records that no longer exist, & inaccurate info. in books, printed publications, & many of my family's inaccurate stories. In a few cemeteries, I visited, I found pieces of tombstones thrown over the fence. These are some of the reasons Findagrave is so important.

The online research of a distant relative helped me connect my family to the right Harmon tree which is the reason collaborating with other researchers is so very important. I had made the common mistake of assuming Amos Harmon was not a common name. I believe keeping an open mind & appreciating the research of others is very important in doing Genealogy. Educatiional textbooks water down history, but by reading newspaper articles & books while doing Genealogy, I have obtained a clearer picture of what life was like for our ancestors a Century or so ago. After I started researching in the 1990's, & found so many Genealogical errors, I sent for LDS films & microfiche of cemetery, will, census, & marriage records. My goal is to write an accurate biography for all my Findagrave memorials with as many resources as I can find because some managers of memorials of my relatives refuse to make suggested edits in spite of all the evidence that I have. Thankfully these managers are indeed rare because most of us want to keep Findagrave Memorials as accurate as possible. My other goal is to link as many findagraves as I can to their relatives.