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| Danny Grizzle (#47133001)
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Picture Use
All pictures I upload to Find A Grave are placed in the public domain. You may use them for any purpose, no credit required. If you would like a high resolution, uncompressed original, just contact me.
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SOAPBOX
With volunteer efforts like Find A Grave, all contributions are appreciated.
At the same time, I have noticed an increasing number of persons expressing displeasure that others would find their contributions valuable in their own family research. Specifically, there seems to be bad blood that photographs posted to Find A Grave would be used elsewhere.
Those of us who do this work know how time consuming it is. I see your statistics and you see mine, but what we cannot see is the hours and days and months spent walking cemeteries and toiling at the computer preparing images, and time spent uploading to Find A Grave.
What concerns me is recently encountering assertions of copyright and encumbrances placed on images. My opinion is, if your generous efforts are truly to honor the deceased and to preserve their memory, then set your images free. Please do not place a tremendous burden upon others who are seeking out their departed to manage usage rights on individual images. This is an impossible hurdle, and a demand that can only lead to hurt feelings.
One contributor noted on their profile that they had pulled all old family photographs from Find A Grave after discovering some had been reposted to Ancestry. Stated reason: "These images are personal to me." Please consider that they are likely personal - and treasured - by other descendants as well.
I am a professional photographer, and images are my livelihood. Even so, the images posted here and elsewhere on genealogical sites, I give absolutely freely for any use whatsoever. So what if I find my images on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch? I consider it an honor that these images are valued by descendants and family members of the deceased, and I realize that the proliferation of these images across multiple websites insures that the records we seek to preserve are most likly to be successful, in that there is redundancy in case of website closures or technical problems that may potentially cause data loss at any given website.
I'm not against credit where credit is due. The solution to this is embedding your creator information into the image metadata before uploading any images to the Internet. You can learn about metadata on Wikipedia, but the process is simple and can be automated.
Final point, these passages from the King James Bible for your consideration:
Matthew 10:8 - Freely ye have received, freely give.
2 Corinthians 9:7 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
What more can I say? Thank you for your volunteer contributions to Find A Grave. Your generosity of time and effort is apparent; please complete the course and be generous in spirit also.
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I come from a family full of genealogists. Never thought I would be able to contribute, but not true.
My goals:
1) Publish family research, converting paper records to the web.
2) Preserve family photography.
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If you are related to me and have original images or negatives, please contact me.
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HOT TOPICS - SEE BELOW
1) GPS cameras - perfect for grave photography!
2) Book Review: A Graveyard Preservation Primer.
3) Special Note on Photo Requests
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2013 GPS CAMERA ROUNDUP
Update Notice, May 2013: For several years I have published a guide to GPS enabled cameras, evaluating their features and usefulness for cemetery photography. Find A Grave has limited the space available to me here, but if you contact me by email, I will send the full GPS camera information which I have been forced to delete here.
Basic GPS capture is simple. On an iPhone or iPad, it simply happens. There are a wide range of camera types that now do GPS, and cost is little more than comparable models. There are also some serious drawbacks, if you are concerned as I am about grave location accuracy. Contact me for the full scoop.
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Sorry, the other comments formerly present and noted above have also been deleted in order to shorten this bio to the required length. Again, contact me by email if there is an interest.
BTW - my email situation is hopeless, with over 1,000 new messages daily. Please include "Find A Grave" in the subject line of all emails. If I am away from my computer, your email will be buried in the onslaught, but at some point, I will search for Find A Grave in order to get caught up on Edit Requests for memorials I manage. Hopefully, you will not wait too long for a reply.
If you have an urgent situation, I am not adverse to taking calls on my cell phone, (903) 238-4465.
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Charles Babian
 | Thanks for the added info
I read your description and can confirm the reason for this not having much info - namely my uncle and mother were poor. I wonder if I could have the "father" stone added? I'll call local monument companies to inquire. I actually have the deed to the plots!
I really appreciate your gift of the photo. Happy father's day - to you and to the fathers of us all.
Charles | | | Kay Herndon-Foglesong
 | Bio/photos
After reading your bio..I wish everyone on Find A Grave could read it..I have had people contact me that are angry that their photo's end up on Ancestry from Find A Grave..we all treasure the photo's no matter where they came from..I have had close to a 1000 pictures taken/copied from my Ancestry site..but I am ok with that and glad to share also..
When i come up on a photo of a loved one it takes my breath away and i cherish it so much.I may have never seen the face of this person...So Thank you.
Blessings,Kay | | | Kay Herndon-Foglesong
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Thanks so much for the nice photo for Roy Robertson.
Blessings,Kay | | | Fern May
 | George Yaw photo request
Danny, Thank you so much for trying to find this grave. You went way out of your way to help someone and I really appreciate the effort you put into it.
I also love what you have to say about the sharing of photographs and I agree with you completely.Added by Fern May on Jun 15, 2013 8:22 AM | | | Charles Babian
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I really appreciate the photo. I have never been to Texas. I am deeply moved by your having done me this favor. Thank you again.
Charles | | | Charles Babian
| Thanks so much.
I really appreciate the photo. I have never been to Texas. I am deeply moved by your having done me this favor. Thank you again.
Charles | | | matamy
 | Eliza Eversole
Danny -- just noticed you picked up my photo request for this grave. Thank you and I enjoyed reading your bio and I appreciate your attitude. I hope you have good luck in finding this grave and I thank you for your time. Let me know if I can ever get you anything from the San Angelo, Texas area.
AmyAdded by matamy on Jun 07, 2013 8:42 AM | | | Elaine
 | W.C. & Juanita Caffee
Danny,
I appreciate the photos you posted to the Caffee's memorials. Thank you very much!Added by Elaine on May 11, 2013 11:43 PM | | | Bob Tippit
 | RE: Carl Borders Photo Request
Hi Sir,
No problem. Office had told me that Carl Borders was in a mausoleum. One on west side, maybe older of the two smelled so bad that I could not walk around and look. Thanks for the note. | | | LADONNA GREER COLLETT
| Corene Daniels
Hi Danny, thank you for Corene's parent's links,
they have been added.Also I have transfered her listing over to you. I know you didn't ask,but I don't do this to build up numbers.I try to connect family any chance I get,and it doesn't matter how close or how far apart the link may be. I've added over 40,000 photo's ,and so far almost 25,000 memorials,but would give them all gladly to family. I've seen too many tombstones destroyed by time,weather,and vandals,and it saddens me to think of all the history that is lost.So that is why I do this.
LaDonna | | | | [View all messages...] |
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