Thank you to all those who have so generously donated your time to transcribe records and add memorials from obits. And A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to those who allow people who are related to those you have transcribed to manage their memorials.

I have avidly researched all of my family lines for over 40 years. It all started as a child with my love of visiting my grandparents, great-aunts and great-uncles asking them questions about their families and listening to their stories.

I've researched my family for many years BEFORE the internet. I have spent years of my life traveling to interview family members... making long distance phone calls (when it cost you per minute)....

I've combed through a lot of cemeteries and even taken adventures into thick wooded areas looking for cemeteries. I transcribed a few cemeteries because I got tired of the trips back to check dates, etc. My immediate family kept the wooded cemetery where my 2nd and 3rd great grandparents are buried clean for years and put a fence around it.

I've spent a lot of time in libraries and probably read almost every genealogy book (that pertained to areas my family lived) in some of them over the years.

I've scanned rolls of microfilm until I was cross-eyed. I even transcribed from microfilm entire census records for some years in certain counties...all written by hand and typed later. I even shared my transcriptions for FREE. In those days, people made booklets and charged money for copies of their transcriptions.

I made a lot of trips to courthouses and state archives in several states. I've stayed at courthouses for days on end, getting there before they opened and staying until they closed, not even leaving for lunch. They got so tired of having to lug those huge heavy books around for me to look at and make copies for me that they just started leaving me with it. They let me look all I wanted and make my own copies.

I've accumulated quite a collection of county history books and they were not cheap, as well as marriage license and cemetery transcription books.

I have assembled enough notebooks on my family lines to start a genealogy library.

I loved every minute of it and I would do it all over again!!!

Thank you to all those who have so generously donated your time to transcribe records and add memorials from obits. And A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to those who allow people who are related to those you have transcribed to manage their memorials.

I have avidly researched all of my family lines for over 40 years. It all started as a child with my love of visiting my grandparents, great-aunts and great-uncles asking them questions about their families and listening to their stories.

I've researched my family for many years BEFORE the internet. I have spent years of my life traveling to interview family members... making long distance phone calls (when it cost you per minute)....

I've combed through a lot of cemeteries and even taken adventures into thick wooded areas looking for cemeteries. I transcribed a few cemeteries because I got tired of the trips back to check dates, etc. My immediate family kept the wooded cemetery where my 2nd and 3rd great grandparents are buried clean for years and put a fence around it.

I've spent a lot of time in libraries and probably read almost every genealogy book (that pertained to areas my family lived) in some of them over the years.

I've scanned rolls of microfilm until I was cross-eyed. I even transcribed from microfilm entire census records for some years in certain counties...all written by hand and typed later. I even shared my transcriptions for FREE. In those days, people made booklets and charged money for copies of their transcriptions.

I made a lot of trips to courthouses and state archives in several states. I've stayed at courthouses for days on end, getting there before they opened and staying until they closed, not even leaving for lunch. They got so tired of having to lug those huge heavy books around for me to look at and make copies for me that they just started leaving me with it. They let me look all I wanted and make my own copies.

I've accumulated quite a collection of county history books and they were not cheap, as well as marriage license and cemetery transcription books.

I have assembled enough notebooks on my family lines to start a genealogy library.

I loved every minute of it and I would do it all over again!!!