I am an amateur genealogist and a retired math/computer science teacher from suburban Chicago. My grandfather and father were in the cemetery monument business so some of my earliest memories were of the German Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, IL since we lived directly across from the entrance above my Dad's granite shop. I am researching Whelpley/Bagley/Geilow/Paris for myself and Patalon/Marano/Scarpa/Krieter for my wife.

I am an amateur genealogist and a retired math/computer science teacher from suburban Chicago. My grandfather and father were in the cemetery monument business so some of my earliest memories were of the German Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, IL since we lived directly across from the entrance above my Dad's granite shop. I am researching Whelpley/Bagley/Geilow/Paris for myself and Patalon/Marano/Scarpa/Krieter for my wife.