updated 14 Jan 2024

The short version: use our photos with credit, we transfer liberally.

Names we research are at the bottom of the bio.

If you are chasing DNA matches, definitely contact me, it's possible I'm also working on similar leads. I am willing to help anyone with their search for their bio parents via an Ancestry DNA test.

Hello All -

We are James Chandler and Mary (Gatch), lifelong residents of Clermont County, Ohio. James has been sorting out the past for over 40 years now. His main area of focus is Southwest Ohio. You can reach him at the email in the designated spot at the top of this profile. Mary has entered all of her Gatch family into Ancestry.com going back to Godfrey Gatch of Baltimore aided by the extraordinary research of Virginia Markham. We also have an unofficial Gatch Y-DNA project going, if you'd like to join, contact us.

If you are a Chandler, drop by The Chandler Family Association at their website at http://www.chandlerfamilyassociation.org. I'm in Group 7A, and I volunteer on the genealogy panel.

We don't purposely create duplicates, just let us know via the edit tab and we'll delete them if you point out an earlier one.

As long as a person is not in OUR direct line, we will most likely honor all transfer requests. We are not hung-up on the transfer "rules", and are frankly puzzled by those of you who are.
Find-A-Grave now transfers the memorials they maintain with nothing more than a promise from you to transfer to a family member if asked.

You have our permission to use the photos we post in any way you wish but we ask that you credit us, but only so other researchers can find us if they want follow-up information about the photo or where it was taken. "Photo courtesy of 5chandlers (#47512372) at findagrave" will suffice.
If you post photos and don't share them freely, we would urge you to reconsider. This is findagrave, not the Louvre.

If you take photos of old stones and are tired of waiting for the sun to to be "just right" to make the letters "pop", try using a tall mirror perpendicular to the face of the stone to direct the sun across it.
I've also used the flashlight function on a cell phone to do the same thing.

We would like to give a shout out to Clermont County Genealogical Society for their incredible site at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohclecgs/cemeteries.
Use it as an index, but please don't "borrow" their photos, (findagrave and the CCGS frown on that). There are plenty of us willing to go photograph them for you, just put in a request.
Many, many thanks to Pamela Smith and the rest of the volunteers for their work on the CCGS site.
Thanks also to Kathy Pfeiffer, former clerk at Greenlawn Cemetery in Milford, Ohio, for adding/updating memorials and making it so much easier to find the locations of graves at Greenlawn.

Thanks to ALL of you out there searching graveyards and posting photos!

and finally... if you ask me a question via findagrave's message system, but then don't have your findagrave messages enabled and no email address in your bio... well, I'll try ESP, but don't hold your breath.

If you want to know if someone is in my direct line, check my virtual cemetery called James' Direct Ancestors

A very incomplete list of names we research...
basically, if they lived in Southwest Ohio, I'll find a way to add them to my tree, lol.

ADAMS
ANTRIM
AVERY / AWBREY
BABB
BEHRLE
BERGER
BOGGS
BREEDING
BROTHERS
BUERKLE
CAREY
CARLIER
CHANDLER
COURTOT
COVENHOVEN / CONOVER
CRAVER / KREBBER / Gräber
CULLEN
DAVIS
DELLER
DIMMITT
DOAN
DuFAU
FAVRET
FENNER
FETTER
FLISCHEL
FRESCHARD
FRYBARGER / FRYBURGER
GALLO
GATCH
GAUCHE
GERARD
GOMIEN
GROGAN
HARRELL
HIATT
HIXSON
HOBBS
IUEN
KIDD
LEMING
LOHRER
LONG
MALOTT
McCAULEY
McPHERSON
PARIS / PARISE
PAUL
PENCE
PFARR
PHILHOWER
PRICE
PUGH
RAPP
REIN
REIS
RIEHLE
ROSSELOT
ROSSLOW
ROUSH
RUNYAN / RUNYON
SIMPSON
SPAHR
STADTMILLER
TOOMBS
WAGNER
WEBSTER
WILKERSON
WILKIN
YEAGER
and many, many more

updated 14 Jan 2024

The short version: use our photos with credit, we transfer liberally.

Names we research are at the bottom of the bio.

If you are chasing DNA matches, definitely contact me, it's possible I'm also working on similar leads. I am willing to help anyone with their search for their bio parents via an Ancestry DNA test.

Hello All -

We are James Chandler and Mary (Gatch), lifelong residents of Clermont County, Ohio. James has been sorting out the past for over 40 years now. His main area of focus is Southwest Ohio. You can reach him at the email in the designated spot at the top of this profile. Mary has entered all of her Gatch family into Ancestry.com going back to Godfrey Gatch of Baltimore aided by the extraordinary research of Virginia Markham. We also have an unofficial Gatch Y-DNA project going, if you'd like to join, contact us.

If you are a Chandler, drop by The Chandler Family Association at their website at http://www.chandlerfamilyassociation.org. I'm in Group 7A, and I volunteer on the genealogy panel.

We don't purposely create duplicates, just let us know via the edit tab and we'll delete them if you point out an earlier one.

As long as a person is not in OUR direct line, we will most likely honor all transfer requests. We are not hung-up on the transfer "rules", and are frankly puzzled by those of you who are.
Find-A-Grave now transfers the memorials they maintain with nothing more than a promise from you to transfer to a family member if asked.

You have our permission to use the photos we post in any way you wish but we ask that you credit us, but only so other researchers can find us if they want follow-up information about the photo or where it was taken. "Photo courtesy of 5chandlers (#47512372) at findagrave" will suffice.
If you post photos and don't share them freely, we would urge you to reconsider. This is findagrave, not the Louvre.

If you take photos of old stones and are tired of waiting for the sun to to be "just right" to make the letters "pop", try using a tall mirror perpendicular to the face of the stone to direct the sun across it.
I've also used the flashlight function on a cell phone to do the same thing.

We would like to give a shout out to Clermont County Genealogical Society for their incredible site at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohclecgs/cemeteries.
Use it as an index, but please don't "borrow" their photos, (findagrave and the CCGS frown on that). There are plenty of us willing to go photograph them for you, just put in a request.
Many, many thanks to Pamela Smith and the rest of the volunteers for their work on the CCGS site.
Thanks also to Kathy Pfeiffer, former clerk at Greenlawn Cemetery in Milford, Ohio, for adding/updating memorials and making it so much easier to find the locations of graves at Greenlawn.

Thanks to ALL of you out there searching graveyards and posting photos!

and finally... if you ask me a question via findagrave's message system, but then don't have your findagrave messages enabled and no email address in your bio... well, I'll try ESP, but don't hold your breath.

If you want to know if someone is in my direct line, check my virtual cemetery called James' Direct Ancestors

A very incomplete list of names we research...
basically, if they lived in Southwest Ohio, I'll find a way to add them to my tree, lol.

ADAMS
ANTRIM
AVERY / AWBREY
BABB
BEHRLE
BERGER
BOGGS
BREEDING
BROTHERS
BUERKLE
CAREY
CARLIER
CHANDLER
COURTOT
COVENHOVEN / CONOVER
CRAVER / KREBBER / Gräber
CULLEN
DAVIS
DELLER
DIMMITT
DOAN
DuFAU
FAVRET
FENNER
FETTER
FLISCHEL
FRESCHARD
FRYBARGER / FRYBURGER
GALLO
GATCH
GAUCHE
GERARD
GOMIEN
GROGAN
HARRELL
HIATT
HIXSON
HOBBS
IUEN
KIDD
LEMING
LOHRER
LONG
MALOTT
McCAULEY
McPHERSON
PARIS / PARISE
PAUL
PENCE
PFARR
PHILHOWER
PRICE
PUGH
RAPP
REIN
REIS
RIEHLE
ROSSELOT
ROSSLOW
ROUSH
RUNYAN / RUNYON
SIMPSON
SPAHR
STADTMILLER
TOOMBS
WAGNER
WEBSTER
WILKERSON
WILKIN
YEAGER
and many, many more