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| Amy Levesque (#47156425)
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I have been doing gene research for about five years and have an extensive tree on Ancestry.com. My kin come mainly from the Northeast, Canada, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. I am a Maker, a Parker, a Harvey, a Heath and a Kemp. I have extensive roots in Cutler, ME and Merrimack, NH.
I love wandering old places and especially graveyards. One's name may never been written previously or since, one's life never recorded other than the engraving on the stone.
"To gather up the records of the past and present, and faithfully transmit them to the future, is a duty which one generation owes to another." - The Rev Ira C Tyson, Bedford, NH 1885
Many of the memorials I have created are for family members, but once I get to a graveyard I photograph many stones and add them here as well. I am thorough and link memorials when the data is on the stone or if I have uncovered it in my personal research. I do not see these memorials as my property and will gladly transfer non-relatives to anyone with more info, a relationship, or more care. I will gladly and quickly make changes/additions/link relations upon request also.
Please feel free to use my pics without request as you wish. I took them for you! My camera takes awesome pics that I need to shrink in order to upload them to findagrave; if you would like a copy of the better pic emailed to you please ask - it really tickles me to find a pic someone has been looking for.
Many other contributors are playing a numbers game and I think they have lost sight of the purpose: documentation. If you are too busy to make requested changes in order to properly document one's LIFE, if you enter the bare minimum of info when more data is readily available, if it is all about entering one more name, please be gracious when one asks for a transferal of the memorial. Nobody is going to list how many memorials you created on YOUR memorial! 100 thorough, family-linked memorials are better than 126,000 half-assed name listings with death date years - but only in my opinion.
Some folks on FAG are re-creating their family tree here which is JUST SUPER if they know where they are all buried. The problem is that they often add memorials without burial information in order to be able to link other memorials together. I take photos to document a grave, and I search the same cemetery on FAG for the name before creating a new memorial. I do NOT search all of FAG because I know darn well where they are buried - so If I duplicate a memorial that one of you idiots list as "no cemetery" then forgive me for not considering my memorial a duplicate.
That being said, there are many contributors here that truly care that these memorials matter. They spend hours in graveyards and on their computers to ensure that these folks are not forgotten. In their profiles there is no mention of the website rules. All they ask is that we care. I do.
Amy Maker Levesque
Merrimack, NH | |
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WGTLC Scully Tolman
 | William Blood
I love what you did with the William Blood grave marker. | | | R Moore
 | Margaret Harvey
Thank you for picking up the typo on her DOD. It has been corrected.
BTW...love a few of the lines in your bio. May have to steal a couple of them if you don't mind.
RubyAdded by R Moore on May 17, 2013 4:21 PM | | | John Glassford
 | Hannah Moody at Old Hill, Newburyport, MA
re: Memorial# 85252631
Thank you Amy for the birth info. It has been added to Hannah's memorial.
John G. | | | John Glassford
| Mercy Tappan (versus Mary) at Old Hill Burying Ground
re: Memorial# 86773138
Hi Amy,
I created the link to her husband as requested. I have changed her name on memorial to reflect what is inscribed onto the headstone. I have noted the discrepancy and source below in the bio regarding her first name.
Thank you,
John G.
| | | John Glassford
| Old Hill Burial Ground at Newburyport, Mass.
Hi Amy,
Your pix at Old Hill are a great addition to the database. Very nice work! I have hundreds of photos in my possession from Old Hill that I've yet to upload but I am working on so many other projects right now [on FindAGrave and elsewhere] I have no idea which year I'll be uploading the rest of my pix... LOL!
If you enter Old Hill from the side street by the lake, this is the area of concentration I worked on for several months on and off [although I did pop around and also do the Hoyts as you know on the hill above the mausoleum. If you enter thru the side entrance I photo-documented everything on the right up to the street, everything on the left going up and along the hill and all straight ahead all the way to the flat part on the other side including the flat but Not the military stone cluster at the far corner. I never got that far. Many of my photos did not come out as nice as yours. If you have a photo of a memorial I've already set up, Please add your photo onto the memorial as well.
John | | | John Glassford
| Old Hill Burial Ground at Newburyport, Mass.
Hi Amy,
Thank you for all of the great info you've been providing for folks interred at Old Hill. I have completed all requests for revision of memorials. What great clear photos you are taking there! Looks like you had some great sunny weather.
Again thanks,
John G. | | | Meges
 | Mary Herbert
Those old grave stones are remarkable. Thanks for the pictures.Added by Meges on May 07, 2013 5:50 PM | | | Meges
| Mary Fox
Thanks for the great grave photo.Added by Meges on May 07, 2013 5:10 PM | | | Christopher Brooks
 | Willow Cemetery entrance
Amy, thanks for the much improved photograph of the entrance to the cemetery. | | | J.G. WHIPPLE
 | Isaac Blodgett
Amy,
Thank you for taking your time to acquire and post gravestone photo.
Regards,
John | | | | [View all messages...] |
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