I've been working on my family genealogy since about 2003. I really appreciate that so many genealogists are so generous with sharing information they have taken years to find.

I am fascinated with the history I find and every photo I run across is a piece of art to me. If any relatives have photos to share, PLEASE do. I will be happy to share any that I have that would be of interest to you. I hope to share the family information I have gathered by passing it along in as many ways as I can. I hope that future generations will be as proud and mesmerized by their history as I am.

I want to thank everyone on this site who spends so much of their time contributing to creating memorials, photographing headstones at grave sites and researching and sharing information. It's an awesome thing. And to those who have been so kind to transfer memorials to me that I have requested, a big thank you! My membership in this site and management of these memorials is something I plan to leave to one of my family members after I pass, a family legacy. That said, I have also created memorials for extended family members & if a relative of anyone I manage a memorial for would like to take over management who is more closely related than me, I will be happy to do that. I really love the philosophy of this site & I think that it's an amazing tool for sharing information. I also believe that when we pass memorials into the hands of those who are more closely related to the people honored in the memorials, they have a vested interest to continually link to other relatives they are researching and they can more easily add more information as they find it. Making sure our memorials end up in the hands of the best stewards ensures that we leave a better informational trail for everyone looking into their family history, now and in the future.

"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin,—seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. "
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been working on my family genealogy since about 2003. I really appreciate that so many genealogists are so generous with sharing information they have taken years to find.

I am fascinated with the history I find and every photo I run across is a piece of art to me. If any relatives have photos to share, PLEASE do. I will be happy to share any that I have that would be of interest to you. I hope to share the family information I have gathered by passing it along in as many ways as I can. I hope that future generations will be as proud and mesmerized by their history as I am.

I want to thank everyone on this site who spends so much of their time contributing to creating memorials, photographing headstones at grave sites and researching and sharing information. It's an awesome thing. And to those who have been so kind to transfer memorials to me that I have requested, a big thank you! My membership in this site and management of these memorials is something I plan to leave to one of my family members after I pass, a family legacy. That said, I have also created memorials for extended family members & if a relative of anyone I manage a memorial for would like to take over management who is more closely related than me, I will be happy to do that. I really love the philosophy of this site & I think that it's an amazing tool for sharing information. I also believe that when we pass memorials into the hands of those who are more closely related to the people honored in the memorials, they have a vested interest to continually link to other relatives they are researching and they can more easily add more information as they find it. Making sure our memorials end up in the hands of the best stewards ensures that we leave a better informational trail for everyone looking into their family history, now and in the future.

"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin,—seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. "
~Ralph Waldo Emerson