Documentation and Sources:

Please do not cite "Ancestry.com" or "FamilySearch.org" as the source for the information you send. These sites are not sources; they are repositories for the actual sources. The reproduced copies of authentic, official records on these sites are the sources you need to name. These would be birth certificates, marriage records, death certificates, wills, census records, obituaries, etc. These are the records you should cite as your source.

I add rank in the naming field for retired veterans with 20+ years of service, military personnel killed in the service of their country, or those who pass away during active service. Rank is not included in the naming field for veterans who have been discharged from the services. This is per military protocol.

The manager of a memorial is not notified when a photo has been added to a memorial. So although you will not receive a "thank you" from me, I do appreciate all the photos of the deceased that have been added to the memorials that I manage.

These old photographs are priceless!!

I will gladly add any appropriate data if you will send it to me via "corrections and additions" under the edit tab on the memorial page. If the data concerns events occurring before 1925, include a verifiable source for your information. If I am unable to verify your EDIT I may decline it, and you may be asked to send your source.

I believe obituaries are a valuable resource providing genealogical information that may not be available elsewhere. These obituaries have already been published in numerous newspapers and on the internet, where circulation is much more prevalent then on Find A Grave. Anonymity has already been compromised, therefore, obituaries are included on my memorials. I do not change, add or delete information from the original obits. I will add a note if the obit has obvious or known errors.

I also invite anyone to post an original copy of a death certificate or obituary on the memorial. Please DO NOT add photos of census records, Social Security records and, most of all, photos of someone's family research to the memorials. Information from these records can and should be included in the biography section of the memorial.

Biographies on my memorials were written before any links were made and are the results of my own research unless otherwise noted.