I am an Artist and an Art Educator. I am also a happy wife and mother and proud grandma. I've been doing genealogy since 1986, so I'm no novice. When I create memorials, or suggest edits on other memorials, I do so after thorough research and a minimum of 99.9% confidence that my info is correct.

Words of advice: Don't believe every detail on every Birth Certificate, Census, Death Certificate or Obituary that you see. Case in point...My mom's DC said she was pregnant; she was 65 when she died and definitely not pregnant! Do your research and find as many sources as you can for your facts. Don't forget to look in books, court records, newspaper archives, and any other sources you can find. I also recommend Family Search for records and their Full Text Search feature. But remember that FS has ONE universal family tree that anyone can edit. You have no control over that. So I keep my own tree on Ancestry.

Also: Beware of Find a Grave memorial managers who hold memorials hostage and refuse to make changes even when MULTITUDES of documented sources have been provided to verify that information. Worse yet? The memorial managers who have the time to message you and say they no longer have time to update memorials--but can't take two seconds to do so, and who refuse to transfer memorials to people who actually care about them when requested. These are the two biggest problems with Find a Grave.

My main research focuses on the following surnames: Kephart, Swinford, Davis, Sutton, Hayes, Price, Frazier, Testorff, Bigham, Eads, Templeton, Leming, McCreary, Crain, Barkley, Clark, Winders, and Williams.