One day in 2014 I received a hint from ancestry.com concerning a family member long gone, someone who had been difficult to trace.Family Trees on Ancestry.com had her birth place as Georgia or Alabama primarily, and there was one Tree listing that piece of information as South Carolina. She also carried the name Sarah Wright Jones prior to her marriage. Countless search variations were tried, but there are many people with the last name Jones, and to complicate things, Sarah appeared to have been delivered by the Stork.

The hint received was the cemetery where Sarah is buried, and a photograph of her gravestone.

I was excited. The information I received in the Ancestry.com hint coincided with a trip I'd planned to the South, with emphasis on Alabama, because my great-great grandmother, one of Sarah's daughters, was born there. I contacted the photographer who had taken the picture in the small Baskin-Kirkland Cemetery,in Talladega County. Then in October of 2014 I met Mike Reeves, the photographer, and he took me into the cemetery, which is on private land.It was an eye-opening experience for me. I had never before seen a family cemetery.

I would call myself a user of Find a Grave, more than a contributor, at least for now. I have, however, made some interesting discoveries simply searching public or church-owned cemeteries where I believed my ancestors might have been laid to rest.

The families I have an interest in are: Baskin, Alabama and Texas; Barron, Mississippi and Texas; Conlogue, Pennsylvania and Coos County, Oregon; McKennas, Michigan and Coos County, Oregon.

One day in 2014 I received a hint from ancestry.com concerning a family member long gone, someone who had been difficult to trace.Family Trees on Ancestry.com had her birth place as Georgia or Alabama primarily, and there was one Tree listing that piece of information as South Carolina. She also carried the name Sarah Wright Jones prior to her marriage. Countless search variations were tried, but there are many people with the last name Jones, and to complicate things, Sarah appeared to have been delivered by the Stork.

The hint received was the cemetery where Sarah is buried, and a photograph of her gravestone.

I was excited. The information I received in the Ancestry.com hint coincided with a trip I'd planned to the South, with emphasis on Alabama, because my great-great grandmother, one of Sarah's daughters, was born there. I contacted the photographer who had taken the picture in the small Baskin-Kirkland Cemetery,in Talladega County. Then in October of 2014 I met Mike Reeves, the photographer, and he took me into the cemetery, which is on private land.It was an eye-opening experience for me. I had never before seen a family cemetery.

I would call myself a user of Find a Grave, more than a contributor, at least for now. I have, however, made some interesting discoveries simply searching public or church-owned cemeteries where I believed my ancestors might have been laid to rest.

The families I have an interest in are: Baskin, Alabama and Texas; Barron, Mississippi and Texas; Conlogue, Pennsylvania and Coos County, Oregon; McKennas, Michigan and Coos County, Oregon.