I've been doing genealogy since about 1998. Over the years I've met really nice people and some not so pleasant. We should all be kind to one another. There have been good genealogy sites with many now absorbed or nonexistant. I hope findagrave will always be free and readily available for our use. I'm very grateful to all the many folks who have photographed gravestones and posted the information. May the site remain clear from "uglying up" as one member stated. He asked not to clutter his sites with things that are better served on ancestry and other family tree sites. I agree. The sites that I manage are all family connected, except one. I feel it's an honor to them and a privilege for me to have the family stitched together by a family member, like the varied pieces of a quilt.
THE DASH ---
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning…to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth
and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own, the cars…the house… the cash.
What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard; are there things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough to consider what's true and real
and always try to understand the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in
our lives like we've never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile…
remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So when your eulogy's being read with your life's actions to rehash,
would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?
by Linda Ellis

I've been doing genealogy since about 1998. Over the years I've met really nice people and some not so pleasant. We should all be kind to one another. There have been good genealogy sites with many now absorbed or nonexistant. I hope findagrave will always be free and readily available for our use. I'm very grateful to all the many folks who have photographed gravestones and posted the information. May the site remain clear from "uglying up" as one member stated. He asked not to clutter his sites with things that are better served on ancestry and other family tree sites. I agree. The sites that I manage are all family connected, except one. I feel it's an honor to them and a privilege for me to have the family stitched together by a family member, like the varied pieces of a quilt.
THE DASH ---
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning…to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth
and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own, the cars…the house… the cash.
What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard; are there things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough to consider what's true and real
and always try to understand the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in
our lives like we've never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile…
remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So when your eulogy's being read with your life's actions to rehash,
would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?
by Linda Ellis