I started a genealogy search in 2012 trying to locate the origins of my grandmother who grew up in the Ladies Protestant Orphan's Asylum in Detroit. My goal is to help others locate their ancestors and to commemorate folks existence and outline their life story and deeds that they accomplished long ago.

I live in Northern Michigan and retired from my work in Forestry. When I was going to college, I worked three summers at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw. Find A Grave photo requests provide me with a challenge. Searching for property survey monuments in Michigan forests was something that I found to be challenging and profoundly interesting. I find the same challenges in locating grave sites with the maps and diagrams in highly populated cemeteries. I was born in Detroit and grew up in Saginaw. I love to roam cemeteries fulfilling photo requests and looking for the grave sites of family members.

When I search for a grave, I try to be thorough. If there is a stone there and I am certain that I am in the right place, I will do what it takes (within the rules of the cemetery) to expose it and get a photograph. It is disappointing when there is no marker to be found, but it often happens. Photo requests that provide a Section, Lot/Block and/or a Grave Number make it much easier for me to locate the grave site.

The photographs that I take are yours to do with as you please. I am not into numbers or possession of memorials/photos. Most of the Find-A-Grave members that I have interfaced with are kind and courteous people and I thank them for the help they have given me.

Take a look at some of the Albert Ocha family memorials especially Georgiana Ocha (FAG Memorial #184691292). Their story is an example of what has gone on in the past and received little notoriety. I heard the story when fishing in along Lake Superior shores. Then, I found someone who knew where the cemetery was located and it went from there.

I started a virtual cemetery for the children that were once placed in the Ladies Protestant Orphan's Asylum (LPOA) on Jefferson in Detroit, Michigan. Many of those children were abandoned, adopted out or vanished after running away from the orphanage. Most, however, were returned to a parent or other relative after a stay at the LPOA. The LPOA records are at the Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection. After examining those records, I traced countless children to families that had adopted them and some had changed the child's name. My goal is to reconnect those children to the family trees of their birth parents.

I started a genealogy search in 2012 trying to locate the origins of my grandmother who grew up in the Ladies Protestant Orphan's Asylum in Detroit. My goal is to help others locate their ancestors and to commemorate folks existence and outline their life story and deeds that they accomplished long ago.

I live in Northern Michigan and retired from my work in Forestry. When I was going to college, I worked three summers at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw. Find A Grave photo requests provide me with a challenge. Searching for property survey monuments in Michigan forests was something that I found to be challenging and profoundly interesting. I find the same challenges in locating grave sites with the maps and diagrams in highly populated cemeteries. I was born in Detroit and grew up in Saginaw. I love to roam cemeteries fulfilling photo requests and looking for the grave sites of family members.

When I search for a grave, I try to be thorough. If there is a stone there and I am certain that I am in the right place, I will do what it takes (within the rules of the cemetery) to expose it and get a photograph. It is disappointing when there is no marker to be found, but it often happens. Photo requests that provide a Section, Lot/Block and/or a Grave Number make it much easier for me to locate the grave site.

The photographs that I take are yours to do with as you please. I am not into numbers or possession of memorials/photos. Most of the Find-A-Grave members that I have interfaced with are kind and courteous people and I thank them for the help they have given me.

Take a look at some of the Albert Ocha family memorials especially Georgiana Ocha (FAG Memorial #184691292). Their story is an example of what has gone on in the past and received little notoriety. I heard the story when fishing in along Lake Superior shores. Then, I found someone who knew where the cemetery was located and it went from there.

I started a virtual cemetery for the children that were once placed in the Ladies Protestant Orphan's Asylum (LPOA) on Jefferson in Detroit, Michigan. Many of those children were abandoned, adopted out or vanished after running away from the orphanage. Most, however, were returned to a parent or other relative after a stay at the LPOA. The LPOA records are at the Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection. After examining those records, I traced countless children to families that had adopted them and some had changed the child's name. My goal is to reconnect those children to the family trees of their birth parents.