I'll be forever grateful to my high school English teacher, Marjory Ann Pease Sharp, FAG Memorial #117584719, for beginning my interest in genealogy. She assigned a Four Generation Pedigree Chart as homework--and my Great Grandmother, Eva Alta Jackson Yeokum, FAG Memorial #20165966, lived next door and helped me fill it in the night before it was due.

I started recording cemeteries on FAG when I was working as a traveling nurse anesthetist (empty nest, ya know) because I like the outdoors, exercise, photography, and wanted to preserve/share the information that I was finding--especially in some of the older, rural, "forgotten" cemeteries.

I believe my photos have improved over time with experience, a better camera, and tips from others--the sun and types of stone still "get" me sometimes, though--if you get a better photo than mine, please let me know and I will delete mine. I foolishly used chalk in the beginning...upon revisiting some of the same cemeteries, I can thankfully see no damage to the stones...I am trying to remove those photos as I review my memorials. Also, please let me know if a permanent marker is added and I will remove photos of temporary markers—I add temporary marker photos & their GPS to help with permanent location of the grave, and sadly sometimes temporary becomes permanent.

From some of the suggested edits that I receive, I can see everyone likes set up memorials differently...please be kind and allow us all to do how we please. Remember we are in this together! Thank you. ;)

Army Nurse Corps
1981-1993
Gulf War Veteran

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance." ---George Bernard Shaw

"There's two dates in time that they'll carve on your stone and everyone knows what they mean. What's more important is the time that is known as that little dash there in between...that little dash there in between."
---"Pushing Up Daisies", Sung by Garth Brooks

I'll be forever grateful to my high school English teacher, Marjory Ann Pease Sharp, FAG Memorial #117584719, for beginning my interest in genealogy. She assigned a Four Generation Pedigree Chart as homework--and my Great Grandmother, Eva Alta Jackson Yeokum, FAG Memorial #20165966, lived next door and helped me fill it in the night before it was due.

I started recording cemeteries on FAG when I was working as a traveling nurse anesthetist (empty nest, ya know) because I like the outdoors, exercise, photography, and wanted to preserve/share the information that I was finding--especially in some of the older, rural, "forgotten" cemeteries.

I believe my photos have improved over time with experience, a better camera, and tips from others--the sun and types of stone still "get" me sometimes, though--if you get a better photo than mine, please let me know and I will delete mine. I foolishly used chalk in the beginning...upon revisiting some of the same cemeteries, I can thankfully see no damage to the stones...I am trying to remove those photos as I review my memorials. Also, please let me know if a permanent marker is added and I will remove photos of temporary markers—I add temporary marker photos & their GPS to help with permanent location of the grave, and sadly sometimes temporary becomes permanent.

From some of the suggested edits that I receive, I can see everyone likes set up memorials differently...please be kind and allow us all to do how we please. Remember we are in this together! Thank you. ;)

Army Nurse Corps
1981-1993
Gulf War Veteran

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance." ---George Bernard Shaw

"There's two dates in time that they'll carve on your stone and everyone knows what they mean. What's more important is the time that is known as that little dash there in between...that little dash there in between."
---"Pushing Up Daisies", Sung by Garth Brooks