My main interest in posting memorials is simple. Helping others, find the cemetery where someone is buried and hopefully keeping future generations connected with their past.

So many cemeteries have no records, partial records, or lost records. More people are buried without a gravestone or marker than those that have one. So many gravestones have fallen over, knocked over, or lost its inscription. Sadly cemeteries have thousands and thousands of "gone and forgotten" persons lying beneath the surface. Even sadder,is that many of those who served this country in peacetime and war are buried without a marker or the marker is gone. Even more disturbing is the way some long neglected cemeteries were "cleaned up" with a bulldozer, and headstones were plowed over.

Find A Grave is remedy for the gone and forgotten. It has also become a digital cemetery or remembrance site for those that have foregone traditional cemetery burials .

15 years later, and some 16K plus memorials, I find it harder and harder to please certain people whose numerous FAG rules don't go far enough, and add their own and often numerous rules or "likes and dislikes" regarding "their" memorials.

When communicating; please remember common courtesy, Find A Grave is a hobby; not a job. You: are not my boss.

The information I enter is the best information I have at the time and mistakes/typos are inevitable. I am not responsible for FAG edits that are not accurate. I do not have the time to view/verify all the suggested edits/biographies that arrive daily. I am also not adverse to transferring memorials outside FAG Rules if they are not in my family tree.

If you found someone that you could not find before on Find a Grave, that's great. Glad I could be of help. Everyone deserves a small memorial.