I started researching my family tree in 2015, and it became an important lockdown project for me. I am always grateful to people who have uploaded good memorial photographs, and want to help others in return. I am happy to travel locally from Bexleyheath if I can do it by public transport. In December 2022, I asked my husband if he would like to come to the cemetery with me, and we now enjoy searching for graves together, in order to fulfil requests. He tends to take the photos, but before he takes them, we try to give the grave a bit of a tidy, sweeping away dead grass and leaves to make them as legible as possible. Our holidays are usually in North Norfolk, researching my family tree, and exploring the churchyards there, and Pembrokeshire, where we photographed all the graves in a now defunct chapel yard, where the chapel is being converted to a dwelling. We are slowly uploading them to Find A Grave, translating them as necessary with the help of Google. We see memorials as historical documents, which steadily deteriorate by the action of weather and people and wish to preserve them for the future.

I started researching my family tree in 2015, and it became an important lockdown project for me. I am always grateful to people who have uploaded good memorial photographs, and want to help others in return. I am happy to travel locally from Bexleyheath if I can do it by public transport. In December 2022, I asked my husband if he would like to come to the cemetery with me, and we now enjoy searching for graves together, in order to fulfil requests. He tends to take the photos, but before he takes them, we try to give the grave a bit of a tidy, sweeping away dead grass and leaves to make them as legible as possible. Our holidays are usually in North Norfolk, researching my family tree, and exploring the churchyards there, and Pembrokeshire, where we photographed all the graves in a now defunct chapel yard, where the chapel is being converted to a dwelling. We are slowly uploading them to Find A Grave, translating them as necessary with the help of Google. We see memorials as historical documents, which steadily deteriorate by the action of weather and people and wish to preserve them for the future.