NO ONE MANAGES 10,000 memorials. You can contribute but you don't have to collect. This is not a competition or a collection.

Constantly spouting Find a Grave rules at everyone is a great way to get yourself ignored. There is nothing more of a turn off than looking to communicate with someone and they have a list on their profile of "Things they will NOT do." Even worse ? Not accepting messages ! Please, if you have questions and have messages turned off, I have no answers for you.

I have noticed that there are many people taking photographs from Ebay and other on line places and uploading them here now. Please be considerate of the seller. Please post both the front and the verso of identified photos. At the very least, list the auction seller .

Sometimes people leave you, halfway through the wood. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good…Stephen Sondheim

Remember, an individual is not forgotten if someone living has said their name.

"We all carry inside us,

people who came before us."

-L. Callanan

Remember me as you pass by,

As you are now, so once was I,

As I am now, so you must be,

Prepare for death and follow me.

In this world you can

search for everything,

except Love and death.

They find you when the

time comes.

~ Sergei Yesenin 1895-1925

I am a firm believer that every person, notable or not, should be remembered. I also hope that by uploading photographs, a family member may be able to buy (unfortunately) the ancestor's image. If I actually own the individual photograph, and the description will say so, please contact me if you are a family member.

For those who have issue with preserving lost photographs here, is this harming you? How is this harming you? Just relax.

I also happen to enjoy doing this small token for people that I do not even know. I am really not interested in the number of memorials I manage BUT I am concerned about the people being lost to history, unmemorialized.

If there is a photo attached to a memorial that I placed there, please read the photo description BEFORE contacting me for more information. If you click on the photo, then click "view original" you will see in the description EVERYTHING that I know about the photograph and where I found it. I typically list a seller ID, so that is all I know. Do not hesitate to contact the seller about a photograph auction that ended what appears to be long ago. I have seen sellers list photographs and not sell them, only to relist them 3 - 4 years later. Please do not contact me unless you have read the photo description first.

I search various sites for identified period photographs and frequently, sometimes even state archive websites. I purchase many. I also spend A LOT of time researching identified photographs in order to place them. All too often these photographs are sold and then disappear, where no one will ever see them again. This is simply unfortunate.

If I currently manage a memorial that belongs in your family, please ask for a transfer. Please include the memorial number and your Find A Grave member number before you send a message. I will transfer memorials, however, if the memorial is a family member of mine, I will have to decline. If you have information to add to a memorial, please use the EDIT tab and do not post a personal message.

I typically manipulate the gravestone photos, that I take. I do this so that the inscription is the best it can be.

You may discover that I have left a "penny" on a memorial . This comes from an old military custom of leaving coins on a grave that was visited in person. Leaving a penny means nothing more than you visited the memorial.

Leaving a nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together.

Leaving a dime means you served together in some capacity.

Leaving a quarter at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the soldier when they were killed.

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