Please let me take a moment to thank each and every one of you that leaves a token on any of my memorials. You will never know how much it means to me and how thankful I am for caring people like you!

I am very active here and am happy to do links, add bios, etc. So there is no confusion, please suggest your corrections through the Edit tab on the memorial, not on my profile page; or worse yet, the flower section of the memorial. This includes transfer requests.

The photographs I add to this site are copyrighted. PLEASE do not lift my photographs without my permission. You may use my photos only for your personal use — they ARE NOT TO BE PASTED ON THIS OR OTHER WEBSITES!

I have filled photo requests with absolutely no acknowledgement only to find the requester then lifted my photo and posted it as their own to the spouse after the spouse passed. I blur out the image of a living spouse if there is a double headstone to protect the privacy of the living. It also stops or slows down those who post my work as their own.

I generally will not link to unknown burials. After getting out and photographing cemeteries, I have found a lot of the unknown burials and things get really messy. This site is, after all, Find A Grave.

Under "Help" is the following information:

Burial Details Unknown: Find a Grave's purpose is to catalog and make available final disposition information. If burial information is unknown for an individual, Find a Grave is probably not the right place for their information. In rare cases, creating a Find a Grave memorial for someone with no burial information may be warranted, but these should be uncommon. If it is too soon after someone's passing for burial information to be known, please wait to create the memorial.

" Admins won't knowingly link any memorial of unknown disposition. We should not expect you to link them either. Posted by: Mark-Find a Grave Curator"

Please note: The Department of Defense rules are that a person can only use a military title if they meet one of the following parameters:

1) Passed away in combat while serving their county,

2) Retired after 20 or more years of military service

3) Passed away while active in the military.

If they served at any time, they can have a headstone, and the rank is listed below the name, not as part of their name, unless they meet one of those qualifications. Back before "Veteran" was an option on Find-A-Grave, the only way to quickly identify anyone who served in the military was to add the rank to their name. Some of my memorials still incorrectly show rank and I have been correcting them when found. Please do not ask to add rank unless one of the three parameters are met.

I am very generous with transfers; however, please remember that I have done the locating, researching, picture taking, linking, etc. I am thrilled when I can transfer memorials to family but if you are "collecting" names in your family tree, I am not obligated to transfer outside of Find a Grave guidelines.

Memorials are transferred for relatives with these close relationships: child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships.

I sincerely appreciate all the kind and encouraging people I have encountered here. For all the others - "Quit your meanness!"