A retired IT professional on a journey to learn more about my family history. To that end, I became a member of the Manitoba Genealogical Society and joined its Cemetery Committee in late February, 2023. I am also subscribed as a digital member of the Manitoba Historical Society.

I'm located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, which I acknowledge is in Treaty 1 territory and that the land is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.

We all live on through the differences we make, by words and works, of love and compassion. More eyes and sharing make better memorials. Documentation isn't always available to all.

Make it FUN to be here!

Life itself is a string in this web of life... i.e., your dash!

~~~~~~~~~~

THIS IS A CEMETERY

Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families are reunited - memories are made tangible - and life is undisguised.
This is a cemetery.

Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
Testimonies of devotions, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - not death - of a loved one.
The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.

A cemetery is a history of people - a personal record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today.
A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - ALWAYS.

-- Author Unknown

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I am very appreciative of other Find A Grave Contributors who devote countless hours adding invaluable records, travelling, photographing and posting photos on Find a Grave, I have found ancestors around the world! I enjoy being able to 'pay back' what so many others have done before me while honouring those that have passed on. Helping others to find their past is what it's all about!

Each time I create or update a memorial I delight in thinking that it may someday provide valuable information to a genealogist or comfort and closure to a loved one.

Please, as we register their graves, let's work together to share and seek to know more about the folks who have gone before us; what they looked like, the people who shaped their lives, the lives they shaped, and where these influences happened.

To sum this up: they were not and ARE not... just a name on a stone!

For other active and respectful contributors with closer ties, I am generally glad to transfer any memorial as per site guidelines (i.e., to direct relatives within four generations; this would be siblings, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.). If you'd simply rather just have it updated, I am glad to do that, too.

Please feel free to copy my photos elsewhere (e.g. other aggregate grave sites, Ancestry, personal use, etc) as long as you're not profiting off of them or claiming you took them. You don't need to ask!

If and when you do copy my photos, please indicate a credit. Simply indicate "© 2018-2023 Rick Dondo on Find A Grave". I'd appreciate a note letting me know you have copied them, even when you do so to other Find A Grave memorials. You may also use my photos on your own personal website if it is non-commercial, but photo credit is again appreciated.

If it's a cemetery where I took many photos, I can share a folder of all of them with you at a time, no need to download each one individually.

I'm working on a family tree on ancestry that includes the branches of all my, and my cousins'(!) in-laws; often discovering unexpected and fascinating connections. Are we related? The odds are... somehow... yes we are!

That work is reflected on my website, as noted in my contact information. Have a look! It includes a list of "media" I use in my work, many of which are simple bookmarks to online resources I have found along the way. Some of those may be of value to you in your own research projects.

If you need an obit from the Winnipeg Free Press or Winnipeg Tribune archives, I can probably find it for you.

NOTE: In an attempt to keep FAG accurate, please do not send parental links that do not match the information on the memorial page. I do acknowledge that death records do contain errors but I will not change memorial information unless provided with other sources.
ALSO: When you provide information about a person represented by a memorial, be that a documented source or a narrative, your name and member number will be added as a SOURCE for others to contact for further information. Do not submit data if you do not wish to be contacted.

A retired IT professional on a journey to learn more about my family history. To that end, I became a member of the Manitoba Genealogical Society and joined its Cemetery Committee in late February, 2023. I am also subscribed as a digital member of the Manitoba Historical Society.

I'm located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, which I acknowledge is in Treaty 1 territory and that the land is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.

We all live on through the differences we make, by words and works, of love and compassion. More eyes and sharing make better memorials. Documentation isn't always available to all.

Make it FUN to be here!

Life itself is a string in this web of life... i.e., your dash!

~~~~~~~~~~

THIS IS A CEMETERY

Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families are reunited - memories are made tangible - and life is undisguised.
This is a cemetery.

Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
Testimonies of devotions, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - not death - of a loved one.
The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.

A cemetery is a history of people - a personal record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today.
A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - ALWAYS.

-- Author Unknown

~~~~~~~~~~

I am very appreciative of other Find A Grave Contributors who devote countless hours adding invaluable records, travelling, photographing and posting photos on Find a Grave, I have found ancestors around the world! I enjoy being able to 'pay back' what so many others have done before me while honouring those that have passed on. Helping others to find their past is what it's all about!

Each time I create or update a memorial I delight in thinking that it may someday provide valuable information to a genealogist or comfort and closure to a loved one.

Please, as we register their graves, let's work together to share and seek to know more about the folks who have gone before us; what they looked like, the people who shaped their lives, the lives they shaped, and where these influences happened.

To sum this up: they were not and ARE not... just a name on a stone!

For other active and respectful contributors with closer ties, I am generally glad to transfer any memorial as per site guidelines (i.e., to direct relatives within four generations; this would be siblings, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.). If you'd simply rather just have it updated, I am glad to do that, too.

Please feel free to copy my photos elsewhere (e.g. other aggregate grave sites, Ancestry, personal use, etc) as long as you're not profiting off of them or claiming you took them. You don't need to ask!

If and when you do copy my photos, please indicate a credit. Simply indicate "© 2018-2023 Rick Dondo on Find A Grave". I'd appreciate a note letting me know you have copied them, even when you do so to other Find A Grave memorials. You may also use my photos on your own personal website if it is non-commercial, but photo credit is again appreciated.

If it's a cemetery where I took many photos, I can share a folder of all of them with you at a time, no need to download each one individually.

I'm working on a family tree on ancestry that includes the branches of all my, and my cousins'(!) in-laws; often discovering unexpected and fascinating connections. Are we related? The odds are... somehow... yes we are!

That work is reflected on my website, as noted in my contact information. Have a look! It includes a list of "media" I use in my work, many of which are simple bookmarks to online resources I have found along the way. Some of those may be of value to you in your own research projects.

If you need an obit from the Winnipeg Free Press or Winnipeg Tribune archives, I can probably find it for you.

NOTE: In an attempt to keep FAG accurate, please do not send parental links that do not match the information on the memorial page. I do acknowledge that death records do contain errors but I will not change memorial information unless provided with other sources.
ALSO: When you provide information about a person represented by a memorial, be that a documented source or a narrative, your name and member number will be added as a SOURCE for others to contact for further information. Do not submit data if you do not wish to be contacted.