I have been tracing my family roots for over 50 years. I was excited to find this site that helps to document and share with others. I am a retired educator...23 years as a math and computer teacher and then 17 years as a district technology director.

The families I am tracing include the following: Winn, Brantingham, Santee, Ellyson, Schussler, Longenecker, Patterson, McMillan.

I have posted memorials and pictures for the following cemeteries in or near New Philadelphia, Ohio: East Ave, Evergreen Burial Park, Fair St (Ave), Tuscarawas County Home Infirmary, Jerusalem Church, and St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church plus East Goshen Friends Cemetery near Beloit, Ohio, and Damascus Cemetery in Damascus, Ohio.

I am currently working to document Amish cemeteries in Holmes, Wayne, Coshocton, Tuscarawas, Knox, & Ashland Counties in Ohio. To date I have been to and documented 269 Amish cemeteries. In the process I have found and added 98 Amish cemeteries to FindAGrave and have added over 5,700 individuals to FindAGrave. Here is the website I created to document my findings: www.OhioAmishCemeteries.com

I can add information and links to any memorial for you, or if I have a memorial for one of your relatives, I'll transfer ownership upon request. (Please give your relationship to the person.) Please make the request via the Edit tab and then Suggest a correction...

Feel free to use any of the pictures that I have posted. (It would be nice if you gave me credit for the picture.)

****If you volunteer on this website and decide you no longer want to maintain the records please transfer your records to someone who has an active account and willing to take over the records. (I am one of many willing to take over records.) It would also be a good idea to leave someone instructions on how to make these transfers should you go inactive without warning. (Borrowed from another FAG Contributor)***** Click here for instructions.

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"If Christ is raised, nothing else matters If Christ is not raised, nothing matters." - Jaroslav Pelikan

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When we get to heaven as Sam Gamgee from "Lord of the Rings," said, "everything sad [will] become untrue."

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