Attention to those visiting and photgraphing in cemeteries: Leave your camera home and use your smart phone, after downloading the Findagrave App. Take grave pictures thru the app. If you're taking multiple pictures, once on the cemetery landing page, click on "add grave photo". The photos will download to the web. The memorials can then be created on a pc or laptop. (transcribe) If the cemetery has a gps location, then the memorials will also get a gps location. This enables users to find the grave in the cemetery. It has been promoted for several years, but those using cameras haven't bought into it yet. The system works! Try it!

Thanks to all the contributors that follow and add to the memorials through edits. My passion is photographing the cemeteries and then working on the memorials. It is obvious that there are more memorials that I can maintain without the help of others. I accept most edits without question, but do review before doing so.

The pictures I post on Findagrave are available to fellow contributors as long as they are not used for profit. I often use pictures posted by others that are made public on Ancestry. For those, I appreciate them being made available.

I am relatively new to this, but have been quite active since joining Ancestry, Jan 2019, spending a year building my tree with documents accumulated from family members, getting introduced to Findagrave, cleaning up some old family cemeteries, getting them online and connecting the family.

I am a Veteran and member of American Legion Post 110 in Nashville. For Memorial Day, we place flags on the graves of Veterans at Forest Hills Cemetery(Nash County). Up to 15% have no military markings on their markers, but we use records from obituaries and family info. I try to photograph all Veteran memorials with a Flag.

In 2021, I inventoried Forest Hills Cemetery in its entirety. It was previously done by10-12 contributors 10-12 years ago. There were several sections that had been missed. I had the pleasure to get it updated and gps on most of the graves. Now using the Findagrave App, you can locate your desired grave in the cemetery. Once the grave is located on the App, you connect the blue dot (you) to the green teardrop with the ? (grave location) and you have arrived. This is especially beneficial in searching in a large cemetery.

The first year or so I left a red rose flower for any memorial I visited on Findagrave in memory of my Mother. A Frenchman informed me that the single red rose was for a loved one. Being a Christian, we are to love one another, but to not confuse those who don't understand, I put together a scrapbook of "flowers" and use the single red rose sparingly.

I prefer to not post pictures of death certificates, and lesser documents, but encourage the information to be shared in the Bio section that is pertinent.

My Mother is Nannie Bet (Rose)Strickland 1915-2022 id# 87233493 Please visit her memorial and see how blessed I have been. While you are there, leave a flower and see how a family tree works well with some time spent on it.

Thanks to all contributors that are committed to Findagrave . Here in May of 2023, there are over 253 million memorials and climbing. July 2023, 257 million memorials
Thanks for visiting. Ross 11 Aug 2023

Attention to those visiting and photgraphing in cemeteries: Leave your camera home and use your smart phone, after downloading the Findagrave App. Take grave pictures thru the app. If you're taking multiple pictures, once on the cemetery landing page, click on "add grave photo". The photos will download to the web. The memorials can then be created on a pc or laptop. (transcribe) If the cemetery has a gps location, then the memorials will also get a gps location. This enables users to find the grave in the cemetery. It has been promoted for several years, but those using cameras haven't bought into it yet. The system works! Try it!

Thanks to all the contributors that follow and add to the memorials through edits. My passion is photographing the cemeteries and then working on the memorials. It is obvious that there are more memorials that I can maintain without the help of others. I accept most edits without question, but do review before doing so.

The pictures I post on Findagrave are available to fellow contributors as long as they are not used for profit. I often use pictures posted by others that are made public on Ancestry. For those, I appreciate them being made available.

I am relatively new to this, but have been quite active since joining Ancestry, Jan 2019, spending a year building my tree with documents accumulated from family members, getting introduced to Findagrave, cleaning up some old family cemeteries, getting them online and connecting the family.

I am a Veteran and member of American Legion Post 110 in Nashville. For Memorial Day, we place flags on the graves of Veterans at Forest Hills Cemetery(Nash County). Up to 15% have no military markings on their markers, but we use records from obituaries and family info. I try to photograph all Veteran memorials with a Flag.

In 2021, I inventoried Forest Hills Cemetery in its entirety. It was previously done by10-12 contributors 10-12 years ago. There were several sections that had been missed. I had the pleasure to get it updated and gps on most of the graves. Now using the Findagrave App, you can locate your desired grave in the cemetery. Once the grave is located on the App, you connect the blue dot (you) to the green teardrop with the ? (grave location) and you have arrived. This is especially beneficial in searching in a large cemetery.

The first year or so I left a red rose flower for any memorial I visited on Findagrave in memory of my Mother. A Frenchman informed me that the single red rose was for a loved one. Being a Christian, we are to love one another, but to not confuse those who don't understand, I put together a scrapbook of "flowers" and use the single red rose sparingly.

I prefer to not post pictures of death certificates, and lesser documents, but encourage the information to be shared in the Bio section that is pertinent.

My Mother is Nannie Bet (Rose)Strickland 1915-2022 id# 87233493 Please visit her memorial and see how blessed I have been. While you are there, leave a flower and see how a family tree works well with some time spent on it.

Thanks to all contributors that are committed to Findagrave . Here in May of 2023, there are over 253 million memorials and climbing. July 2023, 257 million memorials
Thanks for visiting. Ross 11 Aug 2023