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With Spring and the recent holy time, I find myself trying to focus on the theme of rebirth, and trying to shake the gloom of the losses of the past year.
As Mothers' Day is upon us, I'd be most appreciative if you would visit my mom and my birthmom.
If you are wondering whom else to visit, perhaps you'd kindly look in on my dearest, or maybe you would read about some of my sponsorships.
I also recently learned about the passing of one of my former mentors, and have remembered the dynamic Emile O. Schmidt here.
For our family, 2012 was a long and challenging year that included two major losses. Bouncing back is coming slow. Right now with these losses, it feels difficult to spend a lot of time on the site; dear ones now gone take up a lot of my brain already. As things settle down inside, I hope to be more active once more on the site. With my limited internal resources, for now, I am focusing on sending thanks and holiday wishes to the folks who, despite my relative absence, have been faithful friends to me, who have honored my family here, and who kept my mom in their prayers and supported me.
If you have a moment, would you please send prayers to fellow contributor Ann H?
And if you have another moment, please consider leaving a token for our fellow contributor, White Light.
Picture use: You are welcome to use pictures for personal use, but I do NOT consent for their use online or on commercial or paid sites. FindAGrave is about sharing what you know, and I will not have my good will co-opted and monetized. I saw some of my pics stolen from here and put on ancestry.com and I am taking action to correct this.
Transfers and suggestions: Forgive me, but experience has been a harsh teacher. I used to be very cool about transferring, but I've had enough of people demanding transfers for relatives for whom they cannot even articulate the relationship or who want all the people I have memorialized with a given surname or a spouse's great uncle. I'm alienated by people who single-mindedly expect a transfer without reflecting that maybe the memorial in question has meaning or relationship to me and my family. I'm adopted, working on both birth and adopted families. I have a lot of family to cover, possibly double the size of yours, and I have not articulated my relationship to the subject of every memorial for privacy reasons. You love them? Guess what? I might too.
We can both be related to and love the subject of an online memorial. Rather than quibble, I would be gladder still to improve a memorial with your suggestions sent via SAC. Let's do the right thing and make the memorial accurate, suitable and a reflection of that person's life. You can put the improved memorial in a "virtual cemetery" without needing ownership of it, as I have done with relatives that other contributors have added to the site. I can add links or the info you wish, and you are welcome to add pictures.
On the other hand, if the memorial is one I have added by chance or the subject is no one related to me or is one to whom I have no attachment, I will offer to transfer in a heartbeat.
FindAGrave memorials are online representations of real graves, not trading cards. I don't collect them for numbers. There are relatives of mine another contributor has memorialized on the site that I do not "own" and have not asked for, content that I have added the info I have, and linked them to their kin.
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"Many African societies divide humans into three categories; those still alive on earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalized ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many can be recalled by name. But they are not living-dead. There is a difference." -- from "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen
So perhaps the progression of the living to the sasha to the zamani cannot be helped, but we record here those we knew, both sasha and zamani, and leave some record of them. And if they are sashas to us, perhaps our record keeps them sashas longer as we offer our first hand accounts of them.
It bothers me that time passes, because I sense my friends and family members moving out of sight as they pass through the celestial plan, or whatever you like to call it. I am just conscious that our grip on those we know and love is constantly eroding. I think this is why I have been drawn to FindAGrave; I can't stop people from dying, but I can stop them from being forgotten, and can see the lives of people other contributors feel the same about, those they don't want to shift out of focus as time clouds memories and people who knew others pass on. Here, at least, we can freeze them in time and recount all that made them good or special.
Your visits to my loved ones mean a lot to me. They mean my folks here are not forgotten, and honor people I really loved or respected or took the time to research, so thank you. I enjoy honoring people remembered on Find a Grave, and do take the time to read bio info on memorials. I appreciate knowing about the people other folks want remembered.
Every memorial entered here has been done with respect and good intent, in the hopes dear ones will not be forgotten. Any concerns, additions and so on are most welcome here on this page. | |
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Thanks so much for the token you left for my Mom for Mother's Day. I was surprised to see it, not because you aren't thoughtful, but because I can imagine how hard it was to be on this site on the first Mother's Day without your dear mother. I wish I could say it gets easier, but you know from experiencing the loss of your father that this isn't the case. With great love comes great sorrow at our love one's parting. I hope your life is moving into a new stage of what will become normal, and that you are doing well. | | | With Love, Gen Gal
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Thank You so much for your lovely Mother's Day visit. Also, thank you for continuing to have Pat's link on your page. Hope you are doing well. Blessings Always.
Love, Lillie | | | Blessings ***
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Thank you for remembering my Mama on this Mother's Day. Hope you had a wonderful day.
Love and hugs... | | | Cheri
 | RE: sending warm wishes...
Than you! Warm wishes to you too!
Added by Cheri on May 12, 2013 5:15 AM | | | Patricia Hopkins
 | RE: Barnardus Swartwood
thank you. | | | Beth
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Your very welcome and I'm very glad I was able to help you. Just keep in mind that some of the records for that cemetery were missing so this isn't complete. It's a very old cemetery and to my knowledge there were only one set of records of which I copied. I returned the books to them but now I understand that those have been lost.
Thank you for your most kind words.
Have a great day,
BethAdded by Beth on Apr 30, 2013 3:49 PM | | | Russ Dodge
 | RE: Frances Druck Photo Request
I am a tour guide at Laurel Hill Cemetery and have access to all their burial records. The interment card for Frances Druck has a written notation on it stating she was removed from Laurel Hill to Harleigh in 1909. Thats where I got that information.
The lot she is/was buried in in Laurel Hill is entirely unmarked, by the way. | | | Russ Dodge
| Frances Druck Photo Request
Howdy -
You made a grave photo request for Frances Druck in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. Although she is still listed in the LHC website as being interred there, that is incorrect. Her remains were buried in Laurel Hill in 1885, but were removed to Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey according to Laurel Hill Cemetery records.
I have moved the Frances Druck Findagrave listing to Harleigh. You might want to make a new Photo Request on the memorial there.
Russ Dodge
Administrator, www.Findagrave.com | | | Stephen Smith
| Johann Fleck
Hello,
my name is Stephen, Johann Fleck was my 6th great grand uncle, i have extensive information on his family life in Gwynedd prior to his arrival in Chester County. I have the ships regestry for his father Conrad Fleck including transcripts on my ancestry.com page.
I have made numerous trips to historic society and i beleive a strong lead on Johanns Fathers grave (Conrad)
If you wish, send me an email to steve18011@yahoo.com and i will send an invite so you can view his information
Hope to hear back from you
Sincerely,
Steve | | | Stephen Smith
| Johann Fleck
Hello,
my name is Stephen Smith, Johann Fleck was my 6th great grand uncle, i have extensive information on his family life in Gwynedd prior to his arrival in Chester County. I have the ships regestry for his father Conrad Fleck including transcripts on my ancestry.com page.
I have made numerous trips to historic society and i beleive a strong lead on Johanns Fathers grave (Conrad)
If you wish, send me an email to steve18011@yahoo.com and i will send an invite so you can view his information
Hope to hear back from you
Sincerely,
Steve | | | | [View all messages...] |
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