I've created close to 3,000 memorials but I transferred them to a friend who being retired, she had more time to work on them than I did. And the profile picture is one of mine from numerous visits to Arlington National Cemetery for funerals as I lived on Capitol Hill.

Former Legislative Assistant at the United States Senate, former Senior Editor for eight years of "The Congressional Digest Magazine" a national non-biased political magazine. Ph.D. in Modern German History. Historian and author of 47 published genealogy, history and nonfiction books. Volunteer for the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room of the Library of Congress for more than 35 years.

World Traveler with only 16 countries yet to visit. Two in Africa and some small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Residing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. since 1981.