**If anyone has a better looking picture then what I have posted, please post it, as all of know that sometimes the sunlight , or lack of, causes a image to look washed out or too dark.

Born and raised in Oakland County Michigan, I have been researching my family for 33 years, over the last 14 years I have been photographing cemeteries in and around Oakland County as well as other area of Michigan and several Eastern States and Canada. I am not one of those nut cases that thinks that a cemetery is mine and mine alone, or that the pictures I have are for my use only, and that they are copyrighted and using them is a huge no-no. Anyone can use the pictures that I post, place them on Ancestry and other genealogy sites, if you wish. I am doing this not only as a hobby, but to help out others with their search, and if someone makes a million dollars from a photo I have taken, please share the wealth. When taking these photos, I and others like me are not trying to invade anyone's privacy or disrespect their family members, we take pictures because it may be the last one ever taken of a headstone before it falls to the elements, a vandal, or the caretakers giant mower. So don't be afraid of the Middle Aged bald fat man in the cemetery, it's only me taking more pictures.

I don't know just what some Find A Grave people have done but, on a trip, in Oct 2013, my wife and I visited many cemeteries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York, Every cemetery where we had met someone, they were complaining about "those damn Find A Grave people". and they did not want them around. Remember people, treat every grave is it was your own family's grave. I just hope that one day some of the people on this site understand that, it is not about the number of memorials you create, trying to become the king of the hill, it is about preserving the headstones with a photo, for one day they may no longer be there, and giving someone the ability to see an ancestor's headstone from half a world away.

**If anyone has a better looking picture then what I have posted, please post it, as all of know that sometimes the sunlight , or lack of, causes a image to look washed out or too dark.

Born and raised in Oakland County Michigan, I have been researching my family for 33 years, over the last 14 years I have been photographing cemeteries in and around Oakland County as well as other area of Michigan and several Eastern States and Canada. I am not one of those nut cases that thinks that a cemetery is mine and mine alone, or that the pictures I have are for my use only, and that they are copyrighted and using them is a huge no-no. Anyone can use the pictures that I post, place them on Ancestry and other genealogy sites, if you wish. I am doing this not only as a hobby, but to help out others with their search, and if someone makes a million dollars from a photo I have taken, please share the wealth. When taking these photos, I and others like me are not trying to invade anyone's privacy or disrespect their family members, we take pictures because it may be the last one ever taken of a headstone before it falls to the elements, a vandal, or the caretakers giant mower. So don't be afraid of the Middle Aged bald fat man in the cemetery, it's only me taking more pictures.

I don't know just what some Find A Grave people have done but, on a trip, in Oct 2013, my wife and I visited many cemeteries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York, Every cemetery where we had met someone, they were complaining about "those damn Find A Grave people". and they did not want them around. Remember people, treat every grave is it was your own family's grave. I just hope that one day some of the people on this site understand that, it is not about the number of memorials you create, trying to become the king of the hill, it is about preserving the headstones with a photo, for one day they may no longer be there, and giving someone the ability to see an ancestor's headstone from half a world away.