If your messages are disabled and you have no email do not expect any conversing with me. It is impossible. Calling other volunteers rude and disrespectful because your code of picture taking may have been offended and leaving no way for a conversation is childish.
I have posted many pictures with shadows in them. At times I walk deep into cemeteries with oxygen and only get one shot of a stone when I get them on the computer to find they have NO stone image representation. With no way of knowing whether myself or another volunteer will get back to it. A message asking to do a picture check on a memorial is fine.

Many Death Certificates for Lee County Iowa are wrongly filed in Blue on Ancestry.com under Keokuk Township, Wapello County, Iowa. If you open them up you can see that the death places are actually Keokuk, Lee County Iowa. Please open the death cert. and look at the county and town before sending or declining edits involving deaths in Keokuk Township, Wapello county.
Please be patient with me during the covid slow down. I have a lot of extra time on my hands for research and have been sending a lot of links. Thank you so much to my fellow gravers for your acceptance of the constant barrage of link requests. I truly enjoy the research involved. It is like reading a new chapter of Lee county history every evening. I have found much peace walking the local cemeteries and Oakland in Keokuk is a favorite. I do not believe a mounted stone posted in a public place containing a birth and death date can be owned by a photographer. I have never had anybody come back to life and ask me to remove pictures either. To the contrary, I have dozens of thank you messages from distant family members. For this reason I will continue walking the local Lee county and surrounding counties cemeteries row by row and skipping nobody. By doing this I have entered hundreds upon hundreds of memorials that were lost in the cracks of records and located dozens of graves that are new and added with no regards to location in Keokuk Oakland. Oakland is huge. Block numbers are a must (if possible) if a relative is to visit a grave they have found on this sight. I will continue to request links and birth dates for families I research. I don't feel you should be volunteering by adding memorials if you are not willing to accept correct family links. Nor can you pick and choose the guidelines to abide by which this sight has. EVERYBODY deserves to be correctly linked. everybody has parents. Many of the people I research have no relatives to request the links on find a grave volunteering. So the "assumption" that only "family members" should supply information or request links falls by the wayside for me.
I have made mistakes, I have corrected mistakes found. To me the word "volunteer" means "with good will and intentions and the drive to help make things right and proper." No matter what the reason for volunteering, sometimes mistakes happen. My research starts with Ancestry.com and moves forward from there.
I have found a lot of family here and many were already linked, helping me find my ancestry back to Deacon John Doan (11th GGfather) who stood beside Miles Standish in developing Barnstable and Plymouth. I'm forever grateful to those that researched my distant grandparents.

If your messages are disabled and you have no email do not expect any conversing with me. It is impossible. Calling other volunteers rude and disrespectful because your code of picture taking may have been offended and leaving no way for a conversation is childish.
I have posted many pictures with shadows in them. At times I walk deep into cemeteries with oxygen and only get one shot of a stone when I get them on the computer to find they have NO stone image representation. With no way of knowing whether myself or another volunteer will get back to it. A message asking to do a picture check on a memorial is fine.

Many Death Certificates for Lee County Iowa are wrongly filed in Blue on Ancestry.com under Keokuk Township, Wapello County, Iowa. If you open them up you can see that the death places are actually Keokuk, Lee County Iowa. Please open the death cert. and look at the county and town before sending or declining edits involving deaths in Keokuk Township, Wapello county.
Please be patient with me during the covid slow down. I have a lot of extra time on my hands for research and have been sending a lot of links. Thank you so much to my fellow gravers for your acceptance of the constant barrage of link requests. I truly enjoy the research involved. It is like reading a new chapter of Lee county history every evening. I have found much peace walking the local cemeteries and Oakland in Keokuk is a favorite. I do not believe a mounted stone posted in a public place containing a birth and death date can be owned by a photographer. I have never had anybody come back to life and ask me to remove pictures either. To the contrary, I have dozens of thank you messages from distant family members. For this reason I will continue walking the local Lee county and surrounding counties cemeteries row by row and skipping nobody. By doing this I have entered hundreds upon hundreds of memorials that were lost in the cracks of records and located dozens of graves that are new and added with no regards to location in Keokuk Oakland. Oakland is huge. Block numbers are a must (if possible) if a relative is to visit a grave they have found on this sight. I will continue to request links and birth dates for families I research. I don't feel you should be volunteering by adding memorials if you are not willing to accept correct family links. Nor can you pick and choose the guidelines to abide by which this sight has. EVERYBODY deserves to be correctly linked. everybody has parents. Many of the people I research have no relatives to request the links on find a grave volunteering. So the "assumption" that only "family members" should supply information or request links falls by the wayside for me.
I have made mistakes, I have corrected mistakes found. To me the word "volunteer" means "with good will and intentions and the drive to help make things right and proper." No matter what the reason for volunteering, sometimes mistakes happen. My research starts with Ancestry.com and moves forward from there.
I have found a lot of family here and many were already linked, helping me find my ancestry back to Deacon John Doan (11th GGfather) who stood beside Miles Standish in developing Barnstable and Plymouth. I'm forever grateful to those that researched my distant grandparents.