My background is an interest in family history because of my father's cousin's book. He did a great job and wonderful research but every year that goes by more information is released. He passed his work on to me, then my family moved back to my home state 24 years ago. My cousin got me involved with cemetery restoration and preservation on pioneer cemeteries where my grandparents rest. My interest in findagrave is because of my interest in cemetery preservation.
I am also an amateur photographer and some of my pictures were published in a book some years ago. Every time we travel to a cemetery for research, I take my camera with me. Findagrave is a good fit for all my interests. Trying to interest other family members in genealogy, reaching out to meet and get to know distant family members, and hopefully interesting younger family members in our family history.
Most of my memorials are family and friends. The surnames I work on for my family are Foreman, Sipes, Ridgway, Lane, Mosier. Brooks, Harrell, Hughbanks, Swango, Howse, Vandiver, Mounts, Truex, Werts (Wertz). I am in process of submitting to the DAR my fourth generation grandfather Benjamin Foreman 1744-1825 that he is a Revolutionary War soldier.
I am also a member of the Church of Christ and during Covid I have made memorials for members of the church and preachers of the Restoration Movement who have died.
I am focusing more now on family members, and friends, members of the church, so I am able to maintain the memorials I have. I probably will not be creating more memorials for people outside of my family and friends .
Also my new policy is to give a memorial to anyone who is related to the subject of the memorial, as long as they are not my relative. I won't ask any questions about relationships.
My professional life has been as a reference librarian and interlibrary loan librarian for almost forty years, my sources of the research I have done have been: Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, many state libraries, many Universities, the Mormon Library in Utah, the second best library in the United States (Allen County Public Library. The only place I have not researched is foreign countries. I interview elderly people and do oral histories, I have worked in pioneer cemeteries (my families are buried in pioneer cemeteries). I have worked to get an abandoned cemetery restored and now others are working on improving that cemetery. My GGG grandfather is in such an abandoned cemetery and I worked to get information of those in the cemetery, worked with other genealogy societies, I have worked in the basements of courthouses. I have done almost everything in the field of genealogy. My family lines include four Revolutionary War soldiers and I work with DAR. One of my cousins is married to a grandson of a Founding Father and I researched that family and posted that information. But most of all I am a Christian and what I respect is not someone with credentials but someone who is courteous and respectful and comprehends what they read.

Also, this website operates best when people show courtesy and respect to others, especially if they want a contributor to do something for them. The administrators are courteous and most contributors are respectful and courteous. This is just a reminder of what has already been written in the guidelines, in case anyone has forgotten this or has not understood what is in the guidelines.

Please do not add death certificates or copies of other paper records to the memorials I manage. For reasons many are my family or close friends and those paper records infringe on their privacy. Also some of them have been posted to ancestry family trees when they were living people.

One of my first memorials was created in 2003, so I have been a member since at least 2003. I don't know why my numbers aren't updated, they have been 7 years for many years and haven't changed.

My background is an interest in family history because of my father's cousin's book. He did a great job and wonderful research but every year that goes by more information is released. He passed his work on to me, then my family moved back to my home state 24 years ago. My cousin got me involved with cemetery restoration and preservation on pioneer cemeteries where my grandparents rest. My interest in findagrave is because of my interest in cemetery preservation.
I am also an amateur photographer and some of my pictures were published in a book some years ago. Every time we travel to a cemetery for research, I take my camera with me. Findagrave is a good fit for all my interests. Trying to interest other family members in genealogy, reaching out to meet and get to know distant family members, and hopefully interesting younger family members in our family history.
Most of my memorials are family and friends. The surnames I work on for my family are Foreman, Sipes, Ridgway, Lane, Mosier. Brooks, Harrell, Hughbanks, Swango, Howse, Vandiver, Mounts, Truex, Werts (Wertz). I am in process of submitting to the DAR my fourth generation grandfather Benjamin Foreman 1744-1825 that he is a Revolutionary War soldier.
I am also a member of the Church of Christ and during Covid I have made memorials for members of the church and preachers of the Restoration Movement who have died.
I am focusing more now on family members, and friends, members of the church, so I am able to maintain the memorials I have. I probably will not be creating more memorials for people outside of my family and friends .
Also my new policy is to give a memorial to anyone who is related to the subject of the memorial, as long as they are not my relative. I won't ask any questions about relationships.
My professional life has been as a reference librarian and interlibrary loan librarian for almost forty years, my sources of the research I have done have been: Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, many state libraries, many Universities, the Mormon Library in Utah, the second best library in the United States (Allen County Public Library. The only place I have not researched is foreign countries. I interview elderly people and do oral histories, I have worked in pioneer cemeteries (my families are buried in pioneer cemeteries). I have worked to get an abandoned cemetery restored and now others are working on improving that cemetery. My GGG grandfather is in such an abandoned cemetery and I worked to get information of those in the cemetery, worked with other genealogy societies, I have worked in the basements of courthouses. I have done almost everything in the field of genealogy. My family lines include four Revolutionary War soldiers and I work with DAR. One of my cousins is married to a grandson of a Founding Father and I researched that family and posted that information. But most of all I am a Christian and what I respect is not someone with credentials but someone who is courteous and respectful and comprehends what they read.

Also, this website operates best when people show courtesy and respect to others, especially if they want a contributor to do something for them. The administrators are courteous and most contributors are respectful and courteous. This is just a reminder of what has already been written in the guidelines, in case anyone has forgotten this or has not understood what is in the guidelines.

Please do not add death certificates or copies of other paper records to the memorials I manage. For reasons many are my family or close friends and those paper records infringe on their privacy. Also some of them have been posted to ancestry family trees when they were living people.

One of my first memorials was created in 2003, so I have been a member since at least 2003. I don't know why my numbers aren't updated, they have been 7 years for many years and haven't changed.