I enjoy spending free time in cemeteries and doing genealogy, including helping those with unknown parentage or other mysteries solve them with DNA.

-Please credit me if using my photos elsewhere!! This includes Ancestry.com, your personal genealogy page, etc. I don't mind if you use my photos, just please cite your source! You do not have my permission to download my photos and re-upload them here to find-a-grave. If a spouse passes away who is shown on a photo of a stone I've previously uploaded, contact me and I will upload a copy until I am able to go take a new photo of the updated gravestone. https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2021/08/13/credit-doesnt-cut-it/

-Please submit any additions, corrections or transfer requests via the "edit" tab on each individual memorial. I add memorials one at a time (not in mass uploads as some do) in an effort to increase accuracy, but no one is perfect. I do check ALL edit suggestions for accuracy, which tends to take up many hours of my day. If you are submitting edits for which the records or other sources are difficult to find, please send me a message to let me know what your sources are for the information.

-I follow relationship guidelines for transfers. I do not support "memorial collectors." I ignore requests that do not include your relationship to the deceased.

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My most meaningful work on Find-a-grave are the cemeteries I have fully photographed / transcribed. These cemeteries are special because (in most cases) I am related to many buried there:

-Lawrence/Cady Cemetery (Brown Co., WI 2006-07)

-Saint Louis Catholic Cemetery (Caledonia, WI 2009-10)

-Fairview Cemetery (Greenleaf, WI, 2010)

-St. James Catholic Cemetery (Oak Creek, WI 2010)

-Saint Mary of the Lake Catholic Cemetery (Westport, WI, 2012)

-New Prospect Cemetery (New Prospect, FDL, WI, 2015)

-Rexford Cemetery (Ellington, WI, 2017)

My biggest project has been Resurrection Cemetery in Madison, WI. I started this project to document all gravestones (and plot locations) in Resurrection given how poor the records are for earlier burials. I wanted all of us to be able to find people who weren't in the records the cemetery office, or who weren't fully documented there. So for I've completed the following portions:

Section 1, Blocks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 (2012-13; 2022)

Section 2, Blocks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 (2014 & 2015)

Section 3, Blocks 11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33 & 42 (2013-14)

Section 4, Blocks 11, 12, 13, 21 & 22 (2014)

Section 5 (2014)

Section 6 (2014&2021)

Section 8 (2014)

Section 9 (2020)

Section 10 (2021)

Section 11 (2020/2022)

Section 12 (2021)

Section 13 (2021)

Mausoleum parts: Garden of Prayer; St. Andrew Niches

(Note for the above that I frequently re-walk sections to update them with any new burials since the initial walk-through)

I have photographed the following but am still in the process of uploading:

Mausoleum (2019/2022)

I fully photographed several cemeteries in Georgia as well, including:

-Sunrise Cemetery (Maysville, GA, 2014/2018)

-Mountain View Baptist Church (Baldwin, GA, 2014)

I've fully photographed Belmont Cemetery in Belmont, MA, and will add those photos as I am able to.

Another user entrusted me with the care of memorials from Ridgelawn Cemetery in Watertown, MA, due to the work I did at that cemetery over several years. Ridgelawn Cemetery memorials were all created from cemetery records by that user. Those records used to be accessible/searchable online, but unfortunately the city of Watertown removed those records from their vendor site, so they can no longer be accessed directly.

****If something happens to me, my husband is to maintain this account and my memorials*****