I've been researching my family history since the mid 1970's when you had to rely on snail mail, microfilm and mountains of papers, and travel to libraries, archives and cemeteries. Thank goodness for computers and the internet! I'm still using the Personal Ancestral File (PAF) software I started with to enter that first person and build my family tree. In Dec 2023 I surpassed 217,000 people in PAF, all researched and entered one at a time, with documentation. And that doesn't include the thousands of people I have researched for others.

When I became active on find a grave, I wanted to scan and share a large collection of family photographs that came to me from various relatives, but mostly my late grandmothers. Some had already been scanned but others were waiting. I've accomplished most of that goal and have uploaded them to memorials here. I do wish I had added, "from the collection of" to all the scans since they are now floating all over Ancestry. But my goal was to share and they are certainly being passed around. I also have a large collection of tintypes that will never be identified. They were missing the paper frames where people would write the names. I know they are families of Henry and Clayton Co GA, just sad we can't put names with the faces.

Many in my collection were labeled and some were not necessarily relatives so I researched the names and was able to identify a few. One that I am particularly fond of turned out to be a neighbor to relatives in Carroll Co GA. He is Jesse Elton McEwen and I added a memorial for him with all my research. I also restored his photograph and have posted the before and after to the memorial.

Another photo I researched was in a collection that originally belonged to my great-grandmother, Minnie. He turned out to be something of a serial killer! The photo was labeled on the back, D W Dilda. I still don't know how my great grandmother had his photo, although his family lived in GA before he got in so much trouble in Arizona! I have a Virtual Cemetery titled "Grandma Minnie's Photo Collection" if you would like to see more.

Other memorials that I am very proud of include:

I researched the names of those who signed the funeral book for my paternal great-grandfather, Hilburn Whit Hulsey, and have linked them to their own memorials. Also, my maternal grandfather, Rev Virgil Sizemore, helped conducted the funeral. I don't think my parents met until several years later.

My great-grandmother lost her mother when she was 2 weeks old, then her father when she was 6. William Francis Marion Nobles died as a POW just months before he should have been released and returned to his family.

If you like the story-tellers, my distant cousin, James Walter Estes, was one of the best! I laugh out loud every time I read his recollection of the 1887 funeral of John Jacob Bauknight. The event was known locally as "The Tanners Church Stampede."

William C Sanders married into my extended Hulsey family. He was born in rural SC and became a very prominent member of Atlanta Society during the reconstruction years. His death in 1900 was big news. The funeral attendants were movers and shakers in making Atlanta the great city it is today. I have added the newspaper articles to his bio that includes links to many of these prominent men.

Places I'm particularly connected to are old Pendleton Dist and Laurens Co SC, Henry, Clayton, Carroll, Paulding and Haralson Counties GA, and Blount and Cullman Co AL.

Direct lines in my tree include Adair, Ashworth, Barnett, Beam, Berry, Burks, Cates, Clore, Crow, Dixon, Dickson, Dunston, Estes, Evans, Gaston, Gilbert, Greer, Hendrix, Hulsey, Klaar, Lederer/Leathers, Lyle, McBrayer, McGlathery, Mobley, Nelson, Nobles, Mote, Parker, Parr, Pate, Reid, Sanders, Shields, Sizemore, Stanford, Steele, Stephens, Swafford, Tomme, Waldrop, Vandergriff, Vining, Williams and others.

I've been researching my family history since the mid 1970's when you had to rely on snail mail, microfilm and mountains of papers, and travel to libraries, archives and cemeteries. Thank goodness for computers and the internet! I'm still using the Personal Ancestral File (PAF) software I started with to enter that first person and build my family tree. In Dec 2023 I surpassed 217,000 people in PAF, all researched and entered one at a time, with documentation. And that doesn't include the thousands of people I have researched for others.

When I became active on find a grave, I wanted to scan and share a large collection of family photographs that came to me from various relatives, but mostly my late grandmothers. Some had already been scanned but others were waiting. I've accomplished most of that goal and have uploaded them to memorials here. I do wish I had added, "from the collection of" to all the scans since they are now floating all over Ancestry. But my goal was to share and they are certainly being passed around. I also have a large collection of tintypes that will never be identified. They were missing the paper frames where people would write the names. I know they are families of Henry and Clayton Co GA, just sad we can't put names with the faces.

Many in my collection were labeled and some were not necessarily relatives so I researched the names and was able to identify a few. One that I am particularly fond of turned out to be a neighbor to relatives in Carroll Co GA. He is Jesse Elton McEwen and I added a memorial for him with all my research. I also restored his photograph and have posted the before and after to the memorial.

Another photo I researched was in a collection that originally belonged to my great-grandmother, Minnie. He turned out to be something of a serial killer! The photo was labeled on the back, D W Dilda. I still don't know how my great grandmother had his photo, although his family lived in GA before he got in so much trouble in Arizona! I have a Virtual Cemetery titled "Grandma Minnie's Photo Collection" if you would like to see more.

Other memorials that I am very proud of include:

I researched the names of those who signed the funeral book for my paternal great-grandfather, Hilburn Whit Hulsey, and have linked them to their own memorials. Also, my maternal grandfather, Rev Virgil Sizemore, helped conducted the funeral. I don't think my parents met until several years later.

My great-grandmother lost her mother when she was 2 weeks old, then her father when she was 6. William Francis Marion Nobles died as a POW just months before he should have been released and returned to his family.

If you like the story-tellers, my distant cousin, James Walter Estes, was one of the best! I laugh out loud every time I read his recollection of the 1887 funeral of John Jacob Bauknight. The event was known locally as "The Tanners Church Stampede."

William C Sanders married into my extended Hulsey family. He was born in rural SC and became a very prominent member of Atlanta Society during the reconstruction years. His death in 1900 was big news. The funeral attendants were movers and shakers in making Atlanta the great city it is today. I have added the newspaper articles to his bio that includes links to many of these prominent men.

Places I'm particularly connected to are old Pendleton Dist and Laurens Co SC, Henry, Clayton, Carroll, Paulding and Haralson Counties GA, and Blount and Cullman Co AL.

Direct lines in my tree include Adair, Ashworth, Barnett, Beam, Berry, Burks, Cates, Clore, Crow, Dixon, Dickson, Dunston, Estes, Evans, Gaston, Gilbert, Greer, Hendrix, Hulsey, Klaar, Lederer/Leathers, Lyle, McBrayer, McGlathery, Mobley, Nelson, Nobles, Mote, Parker, Parr, Pate, Reid, Sanders, Shields, Sizemore, Stanford, Steele, Stephens, Swafford, Tomme, Waldrop, Vandergriff, Vining, Williams and others.