Originally from Australia, now living in New York City. This began as trying to locate the resting places of my extended family... but my reach has been broad.
I make several trips back to Australia every year and spend a good amount of time photographing Memorials.

I'm not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination, but do the best I can with limited time and my inability to control the elements.

In the Memorials I create I prefer to get as much info as possible from the Headstone (although its worth keeping in mind that families sometimes make mistakes or mis-remember).

My second resource are Government BDM records... Again these can contain errors since they were digitized from Hand-Written records. And lastly creating memorials from Transcript Spreadsheets has been the most unreliable in my opinion. A lot of the dates are actually dates that the event was "Registered" and once again the Details were digitized from Hand-Written Records.

I do this on a Voluntary Basis... So please don't send any rude or snotty messages because I misspelled "Great Aunt Murgatroyd's" name. (You catch more flies with Honey than Vinegar). I try to respond to "Suggested Edits" as quickly as I can, but sometimes life gets in the way, so if I don't get to it that day, I promise that I will get it done asap.

I gladly reunite memorials with family members.

Originally from Australia, now living in New York City. This began as trying to locate the resting places of my extended family... but my reach has been broad.
I make several trips back to Australia every year and spend a good amount of time photographing Memorials.

I'm not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination, but do the best I can with limited time and my inability to control the elements.

In the Memorials I create I prefer to get as much info as possible from the Headstone (although its worth keeping in mind that families sometimes make mistakes or mis-remember).

My second resource are Government BDM records... Again these can contain errors since they were digitized from Hand-Written records. And lastly creating memorials from Transcript Spreadsheets has been the most unreliable in my opinion. A lot of the dates are actually dates that the event was "Registered" and once again the Details were digitized from Hand-Written Records.

I do this on a Voluntary Basis... So please don't send any rude or snotty messages because I misspelled "Great Aunt Murgatroyd's" name. (You catch more flies with Honey than Vinegar). I try to respond to "Suggested Edits" as quickly as I can, but sometimes life gets in the way, so if I don't get to it that day, I promise that I will get it done asap.

I gladly reunite memorials with family members.