Findagrave enabled me to learn the names of my great-great grandparents. Since then, I've wanted to contribute to the site whenever I have time, in the hope that I can provide valuable information to someone else who is searching for it.

I love the history of Berkeley, California, and I love contributing to the history of this city by documenting the lives of its ordinary citizens.

My own family names include Zanker, Walter, Curtner, Koch, Roelling, Binder, Pieper, Franck, Jaehne (settlers of the Santa Clara Valley, CA), Beckwith, Gaylord, Willliams (residents of Marshall County and McLean County, IL), Farrer, Eubanks, Tate (farming families in Arkansas). Please feel free to email me if you have information to give, or questions you think I might be able to answer:

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P.S. I am always happy to transfer management of a memorial to family or even friends of the deceased. Just ask!