If you find errors in any of my memorials, please be so kind and let me know so I can correct those.

Everyone needs to be remembered.

I want to keep the memories alive of every person I create a memorial for or manage and photograph their final resting place.

Why I Do This: I spend weekends hanging out in cemeteries — not because I'm goth, but because I'm helping people find long-lost relatives. Think of me as a historical detective who helps connect family dots through gravestones. It's like Where's Waldo, except with ancestors.

Grave Locations: I'm that person wandering through cemeteries with their phone. No, I'm not playing Pokémon GO — though that would probably be less weird to explain to passersby. When I take pics, I always have GPS turned on, so if you want to find a specific grave, just hit "Show Map" and follow my digital breadcrumbs.

Genealogy is a passion. I first joined findagrave.com for that purpose. I have always read obituaries. I truly love the ones that make the person amazing in their life.

The old saying is you die twice. Once physically and the second is when the last time your name is spoken. I never want the people that have gone before us to be forgotten. With modern technology like Find A Grave, their legacy will live on forever.

NAMES / MILITARY DESIGNATIONS: While some people adamantly refuse to add it, I WILL honor their service and rank. A veteran who has served honorably in a time of war may bear the title of the highest grade held during that war. This right is conferred by Congress in law by 10 US Code 772 Section .

I believe that the history of any community is comprised of the stories of each and every one of its inhabitants. It is immaterial whether the person was the city's mayor or a dishwasher; every piece of this human mosaic is an integral part of the historical perspective. I am committed to preserving this history by creating entries that include a bio along with the photo of the person's headstone or marker. I hope that my efforts will eventually become a valuable resource for those who are exploring the history of the Las Vegas Valley, as well as for those who are researching their personal family histories.

Genealogy is a passion. What I love about Find A Grave is you can make their Memorial into their life story. I feel creating memorials are a way of preserving memories that are positive, about certain rites of passage, and the idea of a continuation of life through memory. I enjoy in my spare time making and updating memorials especially those of Veterans. As I transcribe and photograph graves for others, I feel more closely connected to humanity.

I truly appreciate the service and time of strangers that have photographed my ancestors graves, homes and shared personal photos. In return, I have chosen to help others in their own pursuits of information especially with locating graves of loved ones.

It is my honor and privilege to help families remember their ancestors and share their life story with the world.

I believe in humanity beyond the headstones by creating a legacy that will last for generations through a biography and pictures on their memorial page.

I believe a cemetery is not a place for the "dead" but a place where a family is reunited for eternity. A fellow Find A Graver posted this in their bio and I would like to share it also: WE ARE THE CHOSEN: We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors.

To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us, "Tell our story!" So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.

How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us." It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family.

It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. Without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach.

That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are.

So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those whom we had never known before. There's no greater gift than doing something for people who can't do it any longer.

Death is ultimately filled with regrets of what we should have done or what we could have done more of. There is the realization that all the things that seemed important at the time, have not made a ripple in our lives. But with bad comes good. The passing of a loved one is filled with memories that make our hearts open, our smiles brighter, our tears to be the tears of recollection of the eternal moments.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.