I stumbled across this site while starting to research my family tree (Angell, Appler, Clark, Cresson, Edgar, Fluhrer, Fraser, Gunther, Gwara, Hall, Hoffman, Hughes, Isaac, Livingston, McDonald, Mielczarek, O'Neil, Parry, Patton, Pinsinski/Piusinski, Rawson, Russell, Troy, Zarnoch). Of course there are many other surnames from various direct relatives' siblings.

As a little girl, I was fascinated with a little cemetery in Higgins Bay, NY on Piseco Lake. If my parents couldn't find me, they assumed I'd walked the half mile up there. I even decided to record all the stones at the age of 9 and I was fascinated by looking for connections between the different families and if there seemed to have been a "bad winter" where more people died than normal. I was up there enough I even got mistaken for someone in the Rudes family's granddaughter!

My love of cemeteries never diminished, even in college, when I went jogging, I frequently made it a point to run near the cemeteries up in Potsdam, NY. I liked to find some of the older graves and visit them, just in case family members had forgotten their connection. I think it's sad when a person in your family is forgotten and I've enjoyed in my genealogical research bringing back forgotten members into my family.