Bio updated December 2020

Am from Ottawa Ontario.
I give my my permission to use my photos for your genealogical purposes as long as they are not used commercially and claimed as your own. I am a francophone for those who wish, have difficulties in the English language and/or prefer to communicate with me in French.

Am willing to transfer my memorials even if you are not directly related and are willing to maintain it. I just post them to help people in their research. Since it is public information, do not ask me to delete my photos or memorials. I see nothing offensive of headstone photos or memorials.

I travel a lot for my work. If time and weather permits, I will stop at a cemetery on my way home and take photos. At times, I will go out on my days off and take photos.
Note: I am mainly in the Eastern part of Ontario.

Even though I try to be as accurate as possible, an error can still occur and I might not see it right away. Everybody makes mistakes at times and it is no reason for someone to send a nasty messages with false accusations to anyone as I have received once .

Now, when at a cemetery, I try to take as many photos as I can and try to go row by row. The first graves I look for are war graves and any that has a logo of the Armed Forces. Will create a memorial if none regardless that they were KIA or not. I like also to find graves that are hidden by bushes or plaques that have been buried by soil and grass.

I have thousands and thousands (no kidding) photos of graves from many cemeteries. So when I work from photos from a particular cemetery, if I send you many edits, I do not want to seem to harrass you ( some people think that, as I have read in some posts and comments on FAG Forum.) Now, when I see that I have seen that I have sent you a lot, I will work on other photos from another cemetery.

What I also like to do, is to correct the FAG cemetery map. Added a few cemeteries, had a few merged, some put in their proper location, some I added more info, and had a few non existant cemeteries deleted in my area. The non-existant ones, one was based on an historical plaque where a notable local died, the other one was based on some obituaries where three people had their funerals. The memorials had belong to a few other cemeteries. It is not all churches that have a graveyard.

For obituaries, I try to edit, leaving out the names of the living (except for the spouse) and cause of death. Maybe also change a few words. Obituaries can be a wealth of information for genealogists.

For obituary copyright laws in Canada please read this very interesting article that will shed a few lights:

https://www.shiftlaw.ca/ip-law-toronto-blog/the-obituary-piracy-case-and-what-it-means-for-canadian-copyright-law.html#:~:text=Drawing%20on%20the%20Supreme%20Court,are%20the%20rightful%20copyright%20owners.
(The above case involved a company using obituaries to generate money)

Another one that will shed even more lights:
https://library.ryerson.ca/copyright/resources/general-copyright-information/copyright-basics/
Read fair dealing paragraph

My many sources:

FAG app. - Google Maps - FamilySearch.org - Obituaries. - Personnel Records of WWI and WWII. - The Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Canadian Headstones - CanadaGenWeb among others.

Listed below are some links with useful information about this or that.
Happy reading.

http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/tombstones.html
https://blog.billiongraves.com/understanding-jewish-gravestones/

https://discover.stqry.com/v/symbols-on-headstones,-and-their-meanings/s/11754a94-ed4e-4862-86f6-303c44847d3b
https://dying.lovetoknow.com/Headstone_Symbolism

https://www.ww1cemeteries.com/
https://www.ww2cemeteries.com/
https://canadianfallen.ca/

https://gravelyspeaking.com/
http://www.thecemeteryclub.com/index.html

Bio updated December 2020

Am from Ottawa Ontario.
I give my my permission to use my photos for your genealogical purposes as long as they are not used commercially and claimed as your own. I am a francophone for those who wish, have difficulties in the English language and/or prefer to communicate with me in French.

Am willing to transfer my memorials even if you are not directly related and are willing to maintain it. I just post them to help people in their research. Since it is public information, do not ask me to delete my photos or memorials. I see nothing offensive of headstone photos or memorials.

I travel a lot for my work. If time and weather permits, I will stop at a cemetery on my way home and take photos. At times, I will go out on my days off and take photos.
Note: I am mainly in the Eastern part of Ontario.

Even though I try to be as accurate as possible, an error can still occur and I might not see it right away. Everybody makes mistakes at times and it is no reason for someone to send a nasty messages with false accusations to anyone as I have received once .

Now, when at a cemetery, I try to take as many photos as I can and try to go row by row. The first graves I look for are war graves and any that has a logo of the Armed Forces. Will create a memorial if none regardless that they were KIA or not. I like also to find graves that are hidden by bushes or plaques that have been buried by soil and grass.

I have thousands and thousands (no kidding) photos of graves from many cemeteries. So when I work from photos from a particular cemetery, if I send you many edits, I do not want to seem to harrass you ( some people think that, as I have read in some posts and comments on FAG Forum.) Now, when I see that I have seen that I have sent you a lot, I will work on other photos from another cemetery.

What I also like to do, is to correct the FAG cemetery map. Added a few cemeteries, had a few merged, some put in their proper location, some I added more info, and had a few non existant cemeteries deleted in my area. The non-existant ones, one was based on an historical plaque where a notable local died, the other one was based on some obituaries where three people had their funerals. The memorials had belong to a few other cemeteries. It is not all churches that have a graveyard.

For obituaries, I try to edit, leaving out the names of the living (except for the spouse) and cause of death. Maybe also change a few words. Obituaries can be a wealth of information for genealogists.

For obituary copyright laws in Canada please read this very interesting article that will shed a few lights:

https://www.shiftlaw.ca/ip-law-toronto-blog/the-obituary-piracy-case-and-what-it-means-for-canadian-copyright-law.html#:~:text=Drawing%20on%20the%20Supreme%20Court,are%20the%20rightful%20copyright%20owners.
(The above case involved a company using obituaries to generate money)

Another one that will shed even more lights:
https://library.ryerson.ca/copyright/resources/general-copyright-information/copyright-basics/
Read fair dealing paragraph

My many sources:

FAG app. - Google Maps - FamilySearch.org - Obituaries. - Personnel Records of WWI and WWII. - The Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Canadian Headstones - CanadaGenWeb among others.

Listed below are some links with useful information about this or that.
Happy reading.

http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/tombstones.html
https://blog.billiongraves.com/understanding-jewish-gravestones/

https://discover.stqry.com/v/symbols-on-headstones,-and-their-meanings/s/11754a94-ed4e-4862-86f6-303c44847d3b
https://dying.lovetoknow.com/Headstone_Symbolism

https://www.ww1cemeteries.com/
https://www.ww2cemeteries.com/
https://canadianfallen.ca/

https://gravelyspeaking.com/
http://www.thecemeteryclub.com/index.html