Stanley Shepard

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I have been doing genealogy research since the 1960s, while I was in Vietnam and in the service. I used to send a request to the LDS in Salt Lake for $1.00; they would research and send you information that they had. I was born in Framingham, Mass, and lived at 59 Granite St. in Ashland, Mass, from 1951-1964, then moved to

Hopkinton first on Haydenrow St. Then 11 Church St. I enlisted in the army in 1969, went to Vietnam 1970-1972. After Vietnam, I was stationed at Fort Mead, Maryland, then went to Korea for a year, then to Fort Hood, Texas. then back to Korea and back to Fort Hood and then back to Korea. I left the military in 1984, and my Father moved back to Minnesota, and everyone else did too. So I did too. In 1987-1990, I worked for Lockheed Support in Panama and was in Operation Just Cause. I live now in a little house that I own way out in the country in Blind Lake Township, Cass County, Minnesota. I have cataloged the Wabedo cemetery for my township and other cemeteries in the area. I have found many graves unmarked and, through research, identified who they are and listed them. I have received many positive responses. In one case, the family put up a stone. It is essential to take the time to research a cemetery, find and list the names and locations. Many times I list a name and a Picture of the grave stone I get, and I update it with more info to add, and thank me for finding them. I think that is what Find a Grave is all about. I want to locate the missing unmarked graves. I will be retiring in 2013 and will be able to spend more time researching. I have noticed that Ancestry.com has been adding Find a Grave records to search results. That is cool. I am willing to help anyone in central Minnesota. Sometimes we travel over 20 miles or more to a cemetery, and that is on country roads from one town to another in the same county.

It has been a long road, and I have been doing genealogy work since I was 19, and now I am pushing 75. I will be happy to transfer any memorial that is not a direct ancestor of mine.

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I have been doing genealogy research since the 1960s, while I was in Vietnam and in the service. I used to send a request to the LDS in Salt Lake for $1.00; they would research and send you information that they had. I was born in Framingham, Mass, and lived at 59 Granite St. in Ashland, Mass, from 1951-1964, then moved to

Hopkinton first on Haydenrow St. Then 11 Church St. I enlisted in the army in 1969, went to Vietnam 1970-1972. After Vietnam, I was stationed at Fort Mead, Maryland, then went to Korea for a year, then to Fort Hood, Texas. then back to Korea and back to Fort Hood and then back to Korea. I left the military in 1984, and my Father moved back to Minnesota, and everyone else did too. So I did too. In 1987-1990, I worked for Lockheed Support in Panama and was in Operation Just Cause. I live now in a little house that I own way out in the country in Blind Lake Township, Cass County, Minnesota. I have cataloged the Wabedo cemetery for my township and other cemeteries in the area. I have found many graves unmarked and, through research, identified who they are and listed them. I have received many positive responses. In one case, the family put up a stone. It is essential to take the time to research a cemetery, find and list the names and locations. Many times I list a name and a Picture of the grave stone I get, and I update it with more info to add, and thank me for finding them. I think that is what Find a Grave is all about. I want to locate the missing unmarked graves. I will be retiring in 2013 and will be able to spend more time researching. I have noticed that Ancestry.com has been adding Find a Grave records to search results. That is cool. I am willing to help anyone in central Minnesota. Sometimes we travel over 20 miles or more to a cemetery, and that is on country roads from one town to another in the same county.

It has been a long road, and I have been doing genealogy work since I was 19, and now I am pushing 75. I will be happy to transfer any memorial that is not a direct ancestor of mine.

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