We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T.S. Eliot

Family and genealogy has been place of exploration and connection for me. Gravesites are one of the few touchpoints we have with those who went before us.

Please message me any questions. Any photos or information you would like added, please supply your sources.

If I am not also related, or more closely related, I look forward to transferring graves to family members or any friends of the deceased.

I have really enjoyed adding the GPS links to graves at two pioneer cemeteries in Oregon, and I am working on a third. This process has taught me a lot about how easy it is to make mistakes when creating a memorial.

When I finish canvassing a cemetery, I check to see which graves don't have GPS and go look for them. Of course, there are unmarked graves to consider. A number of these entries had a death certificate or other proofs. But I also discovered multiple people were erroneously attached to the wrong cemetery. I generally understood this to be a possibility, but seeing the details of how it could happen was enlightening. In one case, I found a person who had lived their whole life in Australia 100 years ago, yet were buried in Oregon. There was a cemetery in Australia with the same name and the Graver readily told me she mis-clicked on a dropdown. The challenges of using a phone in bad weather etc., are real. Even trickier, there are multiple cemeteries in our state with the exact same name but in very different counties.

Another challenge: Some pioneer cemeteries still accept new burials but others don't. One cemetery I walked, the manager told me no new graves have been allowed there for decades. Yet, someone who died a few years ago was attached to this cemetery on FG. Looking to see when the last burial occurred is one way to doublecheck a pioneer cemetery's status. To conclude, it has been an excellent learning experience. I have appreciated all the conversations with great volunteers.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T.S. Eliot

Family and genealogy has been place of exploration and connection for me. Gravesites are one of the few touchpoints we have with those who went before us.

Please message me any questions. Any photos or information you would like added, please supply your sources.

If I am not also related, or more closely related, I look forward to transferring graves to family members or any friends of the deceased.

I have really enjoyed adding the GPS links to graves at two pioneer cemeteries in Oregon, and I am working on a third. This process has taught me a lot about how easy it is to make mistakes when creating a memorial.

When I finish canvassing a cemetery, I check to see which graves don't have GPS and go look for them. Of course, there are unmarked graves to consider. A number of these entries had a death certificate or other proofs. But I also discovered multiple people were erroneously attached to the wrong cemetery. I generally understood this to be a possibility, but seeing the details of how it could happen was enlightening. In one case, I found a person who had lived their whole life in Australia 100 years ago, yet were buried in Oregon. There was a cemetery in Australia with the same name and the Graver readily told me she mis-clicked on a dropdown. The challenges of using a phone in bad weather etc., are real. Even trickier, there are multiple cemeteries in our state with the exact same name but in very different counties.

Another challenge: Some pioneer cemeteries still accept new burials but others don't. One cemetery I walked, the manager told me no new graves have been allowed there for decades. Yet, someone who died a few years ago was attached to this cemetery on FG. Looking to see when the last burial occurred is one way to doublecheck a pioneer cemetery's status. To conclude, it has been an excellent learning experience. I have appreciated all the conversations with great volunteers.