I have been working on genealogy for about 25 years. After being diagnosed with cancer and ensuing treatment, I found myself thinking about the brevity of our time here on earth and found a renewed enthusiasm for finding my ancestors.

You are free to use any photos I have taken and submitted of cemeteries or gravestones to use in your research, Ancestry trees, or any other genealogical endeavor; there is no need to ask my permission. That is why I submit them...so that they might help people document their family's history. I don't take many photos, but when I do, it is when I have visited cemeteries on my trips out of state, so my thought is that I should make this opportunity available to those unable to travel to see their family member's final resting place for themselves.

If I have created any memorials that are family members of yours, or friends or neighbors, and you would like to maintain them, let me know, and I will transfer them to you providing they are not my own family.

I work with our local Dog Rescue and foster homeless and discarded dogs until we find a forever home. We have 3 shih tzus who we adopted from Rescue. Or maybe they adopted us! If you are looking for a pet, dog or cat, please consider Rescue!

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer