Greetings,

I am new to Find A Grave and sincerely hope that I am not making too many errors on my entries. My grandmother got very involved in our ancestry about the time my first son was born. (1983) As I tried to help her out, I realized that she had followed all of the branches back from the original ancestor. At this time, I am trying to enter all of her research on Ancestry.com, so all of her hard work is not lost. In the process, I have discovered Find A Grave. I was surprised this week to discover that entries are made by people like me. For some reason, I was thinking that cemeteries were creating data bases of who is buried in their cemeteries. It has become a giant puzzle to sort and connect relationships of people I knew growing up. Unfortunately, just because you are dead does not mean there is always a record of where you are that is easily found. Grandma was more into death dates then where people are buried. I am thinking that maybe when it warms out, I will head out with my phone camera and take pictures of some of the requests I see posted on this site in the hope that maybe someone else is doing the same thing out there for me.

Greetings,

I am new to Find A Grave and sincerely hope that I am not making too many errors on my entries. My grandmother got very involved in our ancestry about the time my first son was born. (1983) As I tried to help her out, I realized that she had followed all of the branches back from the original ancestor. At this time, I am trying to enter all of her research on Ancestry.com, so all of her hard work is not lost. In the process, I have discovered Find A Grave. I was surprised this week to discover that entries are made by people like me. For some reason, I was thinking that cemeteries were creating data bases of who is buried in their cemeteries. It has become a giant puzzle to sort and connect relationships of people I knew growing up. Unfortunately, just because you are dead does not mean there is always a record of where you are that is easily found. Grandma was more into death dates then where people are buried. I am thinking that maybe when it warms out, I will head out with my phone camera and take pictures of some of the requests I see posted on this site in the hope that maybe someone else is doing the same thing out there for me.