updated Aug 2026

The short version:

If you are chasing DNA matches, definitely contact me, it's possible I'm also working on similar leads. I am willing to assist anyone with their search for their bio parents via an Ancestry DNA test, or any other DNA genealogy mystery really.

Use our photos any way you like, with credit (see below).

We transfer liberally (especially since I took many of them on just so I could affix a gender to them because it is annoying to import the "gray" ones into Ancestry, lol)

Names we research are at the bottom of the bio.

Nobody's perfect, if I've made a typo, have the wrongs dates or parents, or assigned wrong gender, I want to know about it, thank you.

I will however stick with the dates and spelling that are on the headstone to prevent duplications happening when people search by what is on the headstone.

I will put alternative information/explanations in the bio.

Hello All, welcome to the long version.

We are James Chandler and Mary (Gatch), lifelong residents of Clermont County, Ohio. James has been sorting out the past for nearly 45 years now. His main area of focus is Southwest Ohio. You can reach him at the email in the designated spot at the top of this profile.

Mary has entered all of her Gatch family into Ancestry.com going back to Godfrey Gatch of Baltimore aided by the extensive research of Virginia Markham and the book she wrote on the Gatch family. As a result of that endeavor, we manage a great many of the Gatch memorials on this site. We also have an unofficial Gatch Y-DNA project going, if you'd like to join, contact us. (I still have the old Y-search data in a spreadsheet).

If you are a Chandler, drop by The Chandler Family Association at their website at http://www.chandlerfamilyassociation.org. I'm in Group 7A, and I volunteer on the genealogy panel.

We don't purposely create duplicates, just let us know via the edit tab and we'll delete them if you point out an earlier one. If you've put in a merge for one of my memorials, and FindAGrave denies it, contact me and make your case for why mine is a duplicate and we'll hash it out.

As long as a person is not in OUR direct line, we will most likely honor all transfer requests. We are not hung-up on the transfer "rules", and are frankly puzzled by those of you who are.

Find-A-Grave now transfers the memorials they maintain with nothing more than a promise from you to transfer to a family member if asked.

You have our permission to use the photos we post in any way you wish but we ask that you credit us, but only so other researchers can find us if they want follow-up information about the photo or where it was taken. "Photo courtesy of 5chandlers (#47512372) at findagrave" or similar, will suffice.

If you post photos and don't share them freely, we would urge you to reconsider. This is findagrave, not the Louvre.

If you take photos of old stones and are tired of waiting for the sun to to be "just right" to make the letters "pop", try using a tall mirror perpendicular to the face of the stone to direct the sun across it.

I've also used the flashlight function on a cell phone to do the same thing on smaller stones.

We would like to give a shout out to Clermont County Genealogical Society for their incredible site at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohclecgs/cemeteries.

Use it as an index, but please don't "borrow" their photos, (findagrave and the CCGS frown on that). There are plenty of us willing to go photograph them for you, just put in a request.

Many, many thanks to Pamela Smith and the rest of the volunteers for their work on the CCGS site.

Thanks also to Kathy Pfeiffer, former clerk at Greenlawn Cemetery in Milford, Ohio, for adding/updating memorials and making it so much easier to find the locations of graves at Greenlawn.

Thanks to ALL of you out there searching graveyards and posting photos!

and finally... if you ask me a question via findagrave's message system, but then don't have your findagrave messages enabled and no email address in your bio... well, I'll try ESP, but don't hold your breath, lol.

If you want to know if someone is in my direct line, check my virtual cemetery called James' Direct Ancestors

A very incomplete list of names we research...

basically, if they lived in Southwest Ohio, I'll find a way to add them to my tree, lol.

ADAMS

ANTRIM

AVERY / AWBREY

BABB

BEHRLE

BERGER

BOGGS

BREEDING

BROTHERS

BUERKLE

CAREY

CARLIER

CHANDLER

COURTOT

COVENHOVEN / CONOVER

CRAVER / KREBBER / Gräber

CULLEN

DAVIS

DELLER

DIMMITT

DOAN

DuFAU

FAVRET

FENNER

FETTER

FLISCHEL

FRESCHARD

FRYBARGER / FRYBURGER

GALLO

GATCH

GAUCHE

GERARD

GOMIEN

GROGAN

HARRELL

HIATT

HIXSON

HOBBS

IUEN

KIDD

LEMING

LOHRER

LONG

MALOTT

McCAULEY

McPHERSON

PARIS / PARISE

PAUL

PENCE

PFARR

PHILHOWER

PRICE

PUGH

RAPP

REIN

REIS

RIEHLE

ROSSELOT

ROSSLOW

ROUSH

RUNYAN / RUNYON

SIMPSON

SPAHR

STADTMILLER

TOOMBS

WAGNER

WEBSTER

WILKERSON

WILKIN

YEAGER

and many, many more including a bunch of Italian names from Rogliano, Italy

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A note from FindAGrave admin on obits and such...

Since the move to Ancestry and the new website, newspaper obituaries, death certificates and other scanned documentation is allowed. We encourage members to move the images down to the bottom of the photo display so that they are not the first thing you see when viewing a memorial page.