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::✺:: HAPPY FALL Y'ALL FROM MONTANA ::✺::

Wishing each of you many joyful autumn days!

With Love ❤ Paul and Annie

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❦ Blessings and Objectives of Find a Grave: Many headstone photos, obituaries, and biographies in this database will exist beyond the actual headstone or mortuary/newspaper archives. It's a blessing to so many, in life and in spirit. I love helping to make sure people's lives aren't forgotten and linking families. I'm so happy many of you do too. I love my Find a Grave friends!

❦ Happy to Help You: I'd be happy to help you in any way I can through this website or through the Association of Professional Genealogists registry (see apgen.org link above - member number 7838). I'm grateful for the help I've received over the years.

༺❤༻ A Project Close to My Heart: ༺❤༻ There are 600+ burials in Provo City Cemetery for patients of the Utah Territorial Insane Asylum (now known as Utah State Hospital), most in unmarked graves, given a pauper's burial, alone without ceremony, between 1885 and 1960. Most have no parents or spouse listed on their DC and no obituary. Donations were requested for the Utah State Hospital Forgotten Patients Cemetery Project to help construct a monument to honor these precious, forgotten souls. I'm happy to report that on October 10, 2018, the monument was completed! They've been home with their Savior, Jesus Christ, for a long time; they deserve to finally be remembered here on Earth. See the link (above) for each of their memorials in the collection I've created to honor them. Also, here's a link to the Utah State Hospital Patients Monument with photos. There are copyright-protected photos and bios for this project. PLEASE DO NOT post, publish, share as your own, or submit to other websites without written permission and a link back to the project or monument page above. There is no copyright on all other headstone photos I or my husband have taken and posted—you are welcome to use them for your family history research and projects. I happily share them. Thank you ;)

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Frequent Requests & Questions:

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❦ Edit Requests: Please use the EDIT tab of any memorial you'd like to send requests for edits. Please do not use messages on my profile to send edit requests. I'm happy to add &/or correct any appropriate info if requested with respect and your primary source.

❦ Photos | Clippings | Images: Please show respect for those that have gone before us. When posting any image, photo, document, or obituary clippings to memorials I've created or manage, if it isn't straightened, cropped neatly, and does not include the source citation on the news clipping OR in the caption, I will eventually post one that gives honor and respect to the individual, and promptly sort the image order. Need help cropping and cleaning up images? I'm happy to help you!

❦ Permissions: I waive all claim of copyright for the headstone photos I've taken—I happily share them with you. HOWEVER, my photos and bios for the Utah State Hospital Forgotten Patients Project, graphic designs, collages, researched and written biographies (not compiled bios) are protected by copyright law. DO NOT post, publish, share as your own, or submit to other websites without written permission. I believe in sharing generously in this work, that's why I do it. I try very hard to cite my source(s) in my work. If I have overlooked citing a source, please send an edit request through the memorial in question.

❦ Memorial Transfers: I'm more than happy to transfer a memorial to family (see Find a Grave guidelines), unless I'm related. Please include your relationship in your transfer request or it will be deleted. Also, feel free to request a transfer of a family member's recently deceased memorial, rather than choosing the instant "manage" option during the first year—this will prevent the digital removal of all photos, obituary, and all flowers/tokens left by loved ones, if that is your preference.

❦ Military Rank Used With Name for Deceased Veterans: The United States Armed Forces and Department of Defense have made it clear that although a deceased veteran does not lose their rank, it is incorrect and highly inappropriate to use their rank with their name, unless they died in service. That's why their rank is not inscribed before their name on military headstones, but below it.

❦ Will You Create a Compiled Bio For Me to Post? Yes, I'm happy to create a compiled bio from an obituary (and other primary sources) for any memorial, and send it back for you to post. Yes, I'll also create a print-ready image of a compiled bio.

❦ Please Remember:

• We have 21 days to respond to requests, rarely taking longer than 24 hours. I've been entrusted with 15,000+ memorials by Find a Grave administration, inactive, photo-only, and fallen gravers, besides memorials I've created—it takes time to update and manage them all. Please be patient and respectful.
• Please learn Find a Grave naming conventions (see HELP link). For multiple married names, Find a Grave now allows (does not require) more than one in the last name field as the system will now pick up each last name in the search function. My preference is the original rule (last name matching headstone—not three, four, or more last names in a title), but will use on rare occasions if they are all inscribed on headstone or to avoid duplicate memorials.
• I'm truly grateful to all those that have been so giving of their time, efforts and info in this work. I want to thank you all very much and I'm happy to help you if I can. Enjoy Find a Grave!

❦ A Favorite Quote: "Returning from earth to life in our heavenly home requires passage through—and not around—the doors of death. We were born to die, and we die to live (see 2 Cor. 6:9). As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven."

—Russell M. Nelson

April 1992 General Conference

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints