A huge thank you to Find a Grave and GOD BLESS GENEALOGISTS.

Special thanks to the 1000s of my fellow volunteer memorial page makers, and volunteer photographers, and to all the cemetery employees and volunteers.

I'm so grateful for the [family] Historians, the family Bibles, the preserved historic Accounts and Diaries, the historic Maps, State GenWeb sites, Rootsweb, National Archives, historic Newspapers, and all subscriptions available for me today, at my fingertips, WOW...

**A very special thank you** to my late adoptive parents, Bill and Emily. My passion for this work is clearly because of their lifelong interests in their own unfolding family histories, and the results of years and years of snail-mail genealogy of my Grandma Mae (Crist)Jones.

It's very cool that my dad would then take our family to Germany, for the first time, for my entire 1st grade academic year - Bavaria, 1970. We had a car for everyday living but on weekends and breaks we road the Euro rail system and traveled to the great museums, palaces, cathedrals, castles. Went to Stonehenge [before it was roped off, I have the picture!], and Paris, and countless church cemeteries, Western Germany..

So yes, I caught both the family history and genealogy bugs early in life, no doubt. And today I'm proud to be a member of this massive diverse passionate collaborative community, Find a Grave.

Documented immigrant ancestors Scotland, England. Bas-Rhin France, and Rhineland/Palatinate, others. Sweden?

My work here is to honor all of them, plus their descendants. #BeBLESSED.

A huge thank you to Find a Grave and GOD BLESS GENEALOGISTS.

Special thanks to the 1000s of my fellow volunteer memorial page makers, and volunteer photographers, and to all the cemetery employees and volunteers.

I'm so grateful for the [family] Historians, the family Bibles, the preserved historic Accounts and Diaries, the historic Maps, State GenWeb sites, Rootsweb, National Archives, historic Newspapers, and all subscriptions available for me today, at my fingertips, WOW...

**A very special thank you** to my late adoptive parents, Bill and Emily. My passion for this work is clearly because of their lifelong interests in their own unfolding family histories, and the results of years and years of snail-mail genealogy of my Grandma Mae (Crist)Jones.

It's very cool that my dad would then take our family to Germany, for the first time, for my entire 1st grade academic year - Bavaria, 1970. We had a car for everyday living but on weekends and breaks we road the Euro rail system and traveled to the great museums, palaces, cathedrals, castles. Went to Stonehenge [before it was roped off, I have the picture!], and Paris, and countless church cemeteries, Western Germany..

So yes, I caught both the family history and genealogy bugs early in life, no doubt. And today I'm proud to be a member of this massive diverse passionate collaborative community, Find a Grave.

Documented immigrant ancestors Scotland, England. Bas-Rhin France, and Rhineland/Palatinate, others. Sweden?

My work here is to honor all of them, plus their descendants. #BeBLESSED.