Just another fan of Finadagrave." Great service!
Yep! My mother got me started with this. And now, everytime I do a funeral, I tell the people and the funeral home about this site. See, even when we were kids, our mother would take us to the cemetery every Memorial Day. It wasn't a "sad place" for us. It still isn't. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the word "memory" doesn't mean to look on the past. It means to "make a reality present." So, geneaology and visiting cemeteries isn't a sad thing at all. It keeps the reality present of who helped form us.

Just another fan of Finadagrave." Great service!
Yep! My mother got me started with this. And now, everytime I do a funeral, I tell the people and the funeral home about this site. See, even when we were kids, our mother would take us to the cemetery every Memorial Day. It wasn't a "sad place" for us. It still isn't. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the word "memory" doesn't mean to look on the past. It means to "make a reality present." So, geneaology and visiting cemeteries isn't a sad thing at all. It keeps the reality present of who helped form us.