*If my messages are off, it's due to multiple issues which caused me to lose messages or not even know a new message existed... Therefore, please use the edit function to contact me, and please add "2nd request" if your first seemed to fall into e-limbo. Thank you in advance for your understanding. As I do not intentionally ignore messages.
About me:
*Volunteering to preserve our ethnic language(s), religious and cultural naming traditions, heritage, etc. has become my full-time profession. What started out as only researching our own very large and complicated family genealogy, morphed into researching for extended family, friends, fellow parishioners and community members.
My work follows Find-A-Grave site guidelines, plus those set by Genealogical Certification, GPS [Genealogical Proof Standards], etc.
For now, I am maintaining many memorials for the benefit of certain ethnic community burials, with the main focus being on Cyrillic inscribed monuments such as Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Belarusian, Russian. Latin text inscription such as Polish or German and also in Greek.
*If you would like a memorial transferred to you, then please follow Find-A-Grave guidelines for such requests and do so directly from within said memorial.
*Pet-peeves: Adult bullies, adults with control issues, those who waste my time or that of a paying client, and situations of ignorance, insensitivity or lack of open-mindedness to not only history of immigration, but the lack of understanding that ethnic differences exist! Let alone those which differentiate one language from another... One example is automatically "assuminf" that any Cyrillic text is automatically Russian... Having family roots and relatives within both modern RU and UA borders, I was raised in a family hearing, speaking multiple languages, which instilled an understanding and awareness of the similarities, and also a respect for the unique differences of each language, each alphabet and culture.
*Another pet peeve is with the use of Google translate is a substitute for knowing a language. A native speaker can easily tell when someone uses a translator... As F-A-G recommends, please leave the transciption to those who truly know the language, because we do "Not translate" on Find-A-Grave, we transcribe English inscriptions, but we actually "transliterate" inscriptions written in a foreign language.
*Note: Every language has a separate "transliteration table" into English. There is no one-for-all table, and Russian to English is not an equivalent of Ukrainian to English.
*Russian alphabet characters are NOT all equivalent to Ukrainian (even if a letter may visually appear equal)! (i.e. Ukr. letter Гг = Hh in English, but Ru letter Гг = Gg in English, because Ukr. letter Ґґ = Gg in English)
*Additionally, since the 1918 Russian language reform, mutiple letters were eliminated from the then Russian alphabet and therefore are not included in today's standard RU keyboard.
Although websites such as "lostrussianfamily" or even FamilySearch Wiki, do not provide accurate Ukrainian to English transliteration tables, as they are not sites overseen by persons of neither native speakers nor persons with advanced knowledge of Ukrainian orthography. Knowledge of various regional and/or historical differences regarding language or culture, is required when transcribing foreign language inscriptions.
*Lastly: Proper grammar is always essential, but when working with a large database, such as this site, there are formatting standards which sometimes override those regarding grammar! A period after a title, will cause an incorrect sort. We are ALL expected to following Find-A-Grave guidelines! Not "our" personal preferences! *Note: the rule regarding using a period, does not apply to a middle initial in this database! A middle initial should always be followed by a period! Please read the guidelines!
If we all follow Find-A-Grave standards and just our own preferences, then we all can collaborate with the respect which not only each of us deserves, but the respect each deceased and family member deserves.
*I now thank you for reading my rant to its end. If you remember anything from what you just read, please remember that I send fully researched, unbiased edits based on facts (using GPStandards), not per hearsay nor personal preference, and in favor of how the decedent had it pre-death. Why?
*Because posthumous data, including death certificates, obituaries and headstones, are "notoriously incorrect!"

*If my messages are off, it's due to multiple issues which caused me to lose messages or not even know a new message existed... Therefore, please use the edit function to contact me, and please add "2nd request" if your first seemed to fall into e-limbo. Thank you in advance for your understanding. As I do not intentionally ignore messages.
About me:
*Volunteering to preserve our ethnic language(s), religious and cultural naming traditions, heritage, etc. has become my full-time profession. What started out as only researching our own very large and complicated family genealogy, morphed into researching for extended family, friends, fellow parishioners and community members.
My work follows Find-A-Grave site guidelines, plus those set by Genealogical Certification, GPS [Genealogical Proof Standards], etc.
For now, I am maintaining many memorials for the benefit of certain ethnic community burials, with the main focus being on Cyrillic inscribed monuments such as Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Belarusian, Russian. Latin text inscription such as Polish or German and also in Greek.
*If you would like a memorial transferred to you, then please follow Find-A-Grave guidelines for such requests and do so directly from within said memorial.
*Pet-peeves: Adult bullies, adults with control issues, those who waste my time or that of a paying client, and situations of ignorance, insensitivity or lack of open-mindedness to not only history of immigration, but the lack of understanding that ethnic differences exist! Let alone those which differentiate one language from another... One example is automatically "assuminf" that any Cyrillic text is automatically Russian... Having family roots and relatives within both modern RU and UA borders, I was raised in a family hearing, speaking multiple languages, which instilled an understanding and awareness of the similarities, and also a respect for the unique differences of each language, each alphabet and culture.
*Another pet peeve is with the use of Google translate is a substitute for knowing a language. A native speaker can easily tell when someone uses a translator... As F-A-G recommends, please leave the transciption to those who truly know the language, because we do "Not translate" on Find-A-Grave, we transcribe English inscriptions, but we actually "transliterate" inscriptions written in a foreign language.
*Note: Every language has a separate "transliteration table" into English. There is no one-for-all table, and Russian to English is not an equivalent of Ukrainian to English.
*Russian alphabet characters are NOT all equivalent to Ukrainian (even if a letter may visually appear equal)! (i.e. Ukr. letter Гг = Hh in English, but Ru letter Гг = Gg in English, because Ukr. letter Ґґ = Gg in English)
*Additionally, since the 1918 Russian language reform, mutiple letters were eliminated from the then Russian alphabet and therefore are not included in today's standard RU keyboard.
Although websites such as "lostrussianfamily" or even FamilySearch Wiki, do not provide accurate Ukrainian to English transliteration tables, as they are not sites overseen by persons of neither native speakers nor persons with advanced knowledge of Ukrainian orthography. Knowledge of various regional and/or historical differences regarding language or culture, is required when transcribing foreign language inscriptions.
*Lastly: Proper grammar is always essential, but when working with a large database, such as this site, there are formatting standards which sometimes override those regarding grammar! A period after a title, will cause an incorrect sort. We are ALL expected to following Find-A-Grave guidelines! Not "our" personal preferences! *Note: the rule regarding using a period, does not apply to a middle initial in this database! A middle initial should always be followed by a period! Please read the guidelines!
If we all follow Find-A-Grave standards and just our own preferences, then we all can collaborate with the respect which not only each of us deserves, but the respect each deceased and family member deserves.
*I now thank you for reading my rant to its end. If you remember anything from what you just read, please remember that I send fully researched, unbiased edits based on facts (using GPStandards), not per hearsay nor personal preference, and in favor of how the decedent had it pre-death. Why?
*Because posthumous data, including death certificates, obituaries and headstones, are "notoriously incorrect!"