I am a genealogist of more than 40 years - long before the internet was born, and I remember wandering through crumbling old cemeteries, looking for family clues. The internet has been an incredible boon to me, and when Find A Grave started, I was just thrilled, especially since my physical disabilities began to really inhibit my ability to do the legwork I had been doing to build the family tree over so many years.

I am not doing much genealogy research at the moment because I have some writing projects I am working on. I won't be adding new biographies or changing the ones that are already here.

SPEAKING OF THE BIOGRAPHIES:

Please heed all copyright notices. If I (or someone else) posts copyrighted, originally written material to a Find A Grave page, it is for informational purposes ONLY and you may not copy and use it ANYWHERE (including genealogy websites online) without express written consent of the writer. This is a matter of copyright law.

The fact that a biography appears on this website does not nullify the copyright of the writer. Save yourself future embarrassment when you are busted for stealing someone else's creative work product and it is forcibly removed by the copyright department of whatever website where you've uploaded it.

If your family history contradicts what I put on this website, please note that I will not automatically substitute your research for mine. I WILL consider it and examine your source material, of course, but like anyone else, I have a life and won't be able to do it immediately on request.

Finally, I would ask you to please be nice. I have had a few unfortunate circumstances with overzealous Findagrave members who hounded me, insulted me and generally harassed me because I would not accept their genealogy research in place of mine, or that I would not do a lot of genealogy work at their instant demand.

Findagrave is not, essentially, a genealogy site, although a lot of us use it as such. None of the volunteers are required to write biographies, post stories or any of that extra work. We do those things because we love this work and we like to connect with our far-flung cousins and help them. So...be nice to the volunteers and we'll be nice to you.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a message on this platform and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Silver Parnell

I am a genealogist of more than 40 years - long before the internet was born, and I remember wandering through crumbling old cemeteries, looking for family clues. The internet has been an incredible boon to me, and when Find A Grave started, I was just thrilled, especially since my physical disabilities began to really inhibit my ability to do the legwork I had been doing to build the family tree over so many years.

I am not doing much genealogy research at the moment because I have some writing projects I am working on. I won't be adding new biographies or changing the ones that are already here.

SPEAKING OF THE BIOGRAPHIES:

Please heed all copyright notices. If I (or someone else) posts copyrighted, originally written material to a Find A Grave page, it is for informational purposes ONLY and you may not copy and use it ANYWHERE (including genealogy websites online) without express written consent of the writer. This is a matter of copyright law.

The fact that a biography appears on this website does not nullify the copyright of the writer. Save yourself future embarrassment when you are busted for stealing someone else's creative work product and it is forcibly removed by the copyright department of whatever website where you've uploaded it.

If your family history contradicts what I put on this website, please note that I will not automatically substitute your research for mine. I WILL consider it and examine your source material, of course, but like anyone else, I have a life and won't be able to do it immediately on request.

Finally, I would ask you to please be nice. I have had a few unfortunate circumstances with overzealous Findagrave members who hounded me, insulted me and generally harassed me because I would not accept their genealogy research in place of mine, or that I would not do a lot of genealogy work at their instant demand.

Findagrave is not, essentially, a genealogy site, although a lot of us use it as such. None of the volunteers are required to write biographies, post stories or any of that extra work. We do those things because we love this work and we like to connect with our far-flung cousins and help them. So...be nice to the volunteers and we'll be nice to you.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a message on this platform and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Silver Parnell