I have been away awhile. Life. Our daughter received an appointment to the US Naval Academy and we head to Maryland, by car, in a week to drop her off for Plebe Summer before the academic year starts. We have been wide open the past 4 years with high school marching band (football and competition), JROTC (raiders and national competition), and local symphonic orchestra activities to include her school being invited to march and compete at the Sugar Bowl, what a way to end high school marching band! The school won first place all across the board. I promise I will be back and active as usual once she is at Annapolis starting her new chapter. I also retired from Civil Service so I plan to make some trips and do more research. Again, please accept my apologies for being absent but our only daughter took priority. Cheers ~t

Some of my, and my husband's, family names being researched are listed in my virtual cemeteries.

I make regular visits to Andersonville National Cemetery to visit with my mom and baby brother and to put flowers on their graves. When I make these trips I take photos for others. I try to pop in and look in the cemetery database located in the lobby and talk with park rangers, most who have done extensive research on individuals buried there. They can sometimes provide additional information that is not publicly available.

If you would like to look for Andersonville Cemetery information in the database without having to visit the cemetery - it was made public by the family of Jack Lundquist who developed it. When he passed away in 2009 his family put it on line at:

http://civilwarprisoners.com

I have a passion for capturing and sharing information found in cemeteries. When I stand and look about I see the headstones and markers and so much more. They are markers of a life that once was. As I stand there quietly I listen, to the whispers on the wind that say "remember me."