I got interested in Find a Grave after going on a night tour at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (I highly recommend the tour btw) and talking to a few people who volunteer as photographers. My motives are pretty simple: some people want to connect with their past, but usually can't because of many reasons. If I can help close that gap, even on the virtual scape, I'll be more than happy to take a photo or two.

Current project: Updating memorials as much as feasible. Thanks to the Little Landers Society, I have a copy of the digital cemetery records and as of 5/7/22, I have entered every record I could find on to VHC Find A Grave and double-checked that I haven't missed anyone. I'm onto phase 3: cross-checking these memorials with Find A Grave as a whole in case disinterment occurred (which I've already confirmed a few). If you get an edit request from me but don't see proof, please take my word for it that I've done extensive research and/or used the burial records before asking for an edit. Thank you!

A few words on the VHC memorial pages:

1.) Many Verdugo Hills Cemetery interred do not have headstones. There will be an area called Loved One's Landing that will have a brick for each person who doesn't have a marker but it will take time to raise the funds for all those bricks. I'm taking photos bit-by-bit as they are installed. You can learn about this project by searching Friends of Verdugo Hills Cemetery.

2.) On occasion there will be location discrepancies on the brick vs the original cemetery burial information. If that's the case it will be in the notes. Why is there a discrepancy? The best theory I can offer to you is that in 1978 VHC experienced a large landslide which required reinternment for 100 or so residents. The disparity is probably due to a movement for that reason.

3.) I do maintain the overwhelming majority of VHC memorial pages. However, if you want a memorial transferred to you, please let me know! That's my goal to get some of the VHC residents reunited (okay, digitally but whatever) with actual family. :)

I got interested in Find a Grave after going on a night tour at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (I highly recommend the tour btw) and talking to a few people who volunteer as photographers. My motives are pretty simple: some people want to connect with their past, but usually can't because of many reasons. If I can help close that gap, even on the virtual scape, I'll be more than happy to take a photo or two.

Current project: Updating memorials as much as feasible. Thanks to the Little Landers Society, I have a copy of the digital cemetery records and as of 5/7/22, I have entered every record I could find on to VHC Find A Grave and double-checked that I haven't missed anyone. I'm onto phase 3: cross-checking these memorials with Find A Grave as a whole in case disinterment occurred (which I've already confirmed a few). If you get an edit request from me but don't see proof, please take my word for it that I've done extensive research and/or used the burial records before asking for an edit. Thank you!

A few words on the VHC memorial pages:

1.) Many Verdugo Hills Cemetery interred do not have headstones. There will be an area called Loved One's Landing that will have a brick for each person who doesn't have a marker but it will take time to raise the funds for all those bricks. I'm taking photos bit-by-bit as they are installed. You can learn about this project by searching Friends of Verdugo Hills Cemetery.

2.) On occasion there will be location discrepancies on the brick vs the original cemetery burial information. If that's the case it will be in the notes. Why is there a discrepancy? The best theory I can offer to you is that in 1978 VHC experienced a large landslide which required reinternment for 100 or so residents. The disparity is probably due to a movement for that reason.

3.) I do maintain the overwhelming majority of VHC memorial pages. However, if you want a memorial transferred to you, please let me know! That's my goal to get some of the VHC residents reunited (okay, digitally but whatever) with actual family. :)