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| G Giebner (#47161525)
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I once read that memories are essential to our life; they define us. I believe that. These memorials on Find A Grave are memories, if not to me, then they are to someone. Those that went before us deserve to be remembered, respectfully, lovingly…but especially never forgotten. Just for a minute, try swapping places with one of them in your mind and see if you don't agree. Even the tiny babies, too often un-named, deserve their place alongside all the others. They were people, too.
I treat each of these memorials as one of my own family and I find pleasure in being able to link mama & papa to each other, to their children, and children to their parents; even grandparents if they are there, too. And not simply posting a name with a couple of dates, no photo, and moving on like so many do…and then post photo requests for someone else to complete the job. If one takes the time to look and see whom you are posting and photographing, often there is a story, sometimes a sad story, to be read in the tombstones. Over here is the husband, next to him is the young wife gone at age 21, buried next to 2 or 3 babies, then sometimes another wife and another infant or two – how can anyone not take the time to link this family together? I feel that it's my responsibility to tell as much of their story as I can decipher. I have even been known to look up death certificates in order to help link individuals. Yes, that takes time but I believe that "quality" is infinitely better than "quantity" in this endeavor. I enjoy doing this.
Someone wrote that Find A Grave is not a genealogy web-site. I couldn't disagree more. Should my efforts help someone, anyone, find some of their family members or ancestors, then my work is well worth it.
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| | | Messages left for G Giebner (17) | [Leave Message] |
Sharon Smith
 | Yongue Burying ground
Thanks so much for the Yongue gravestone photos & thanks for being a volunteer for Find a Grave! | | | Debby Van Sant
 | Ruff Chapel-Ridgeway
Green, checked behind you found W. E. Parker left off please add photo. I added . Thanks Debby Van Sant Fairfield Genealogy Society | | | W. C. Daniel
| RE: Wiley Coleman Cemetery
I did not enter cemetery - only graves. Cannot alter. | | | Kelly Jane O
 | RE: Tom Carroll, Potters Field - obit
when the obit was printed. I thought if someone was looking for him they may be interested to know there was an obit. | | | Robin Arvickson
| Grave of John Pegg
I live in Erie, PA and am working on a second volume of grave locations for veterans of the War of 1812. I would like your permission to use the picture you posted of John Pegg's grave in this compilation. I will cite you as the source, but I need your first name.
I can be reached through this forum or by e-mail at rosuar@aol.com.
Thank you.
Robin Arvickson | | | Anonymous
 | William & Sarah Robinson
Thanks so much for William & Sarah Robinson transfers. | | | Michael Pickel
 | Pickle family in Pickens Cem.
Thank you for the excellent, caring job you did of photographing the Pickle gravestones in the Pickens Cemetery. I have only two questions:
1. How did you know that the rock with the J.P. cut into it was that of Jacob Pickle?
2. How did you know that the strange stone with the date 8 April 1845 on it was that of an infant Pickle?
Thank you again for your excellent work and care,
Michael Pickel | | | Joyce Talbot
| Eliza Gladden Powell
I have know since childhood that I had a great, great grandmother that lived to 100....my grandmother spoke of her often. It took working in the Heritage Center of the Library to find this site and track her down. To think that on our drive back and forth between North and South Carolina, we have passed her grave many, many time. Thank you for finding her and letting me find her.
J. Talbot | | | Kathy Haynes
 | McDonald
Thank you for taking the time for the photos. God Bless | | | Beth Presley
| RE: Great photos!!!
You are welcome. Let me know if you need any other photos in the Jackson Co, AL area. Also, don't forget those "TIPS" you were going to send me about help me read those "hard to read" stones. | | | | [View all messages...] |
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