Genealogy begins as an interest,

Becomes a hobby;

Continues as an avocation,

Takes over as an obsession,

And in its last stages,

Is an incurable disease.

I found this website during the summer of 2012. I enjoy working on my own genealogy, as well as helping out others with photos of their family/ancestors!

*Photo Credits*

You may use any of the photographs I have taken for your own personal genealogy work and for Ancestry.com trees. It would be nice if you would credit your source though.

"Photo credit: StephanieH #47869375."

Photographs may NOT be used for publications to be sold without permission.

*Burials Unknown*

Per Find a Grave (https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Non-Cemetery-Burials): "Find a Grave's purpose is to catalog and make available final disposition information. If burial information is unknown for an individual, Find a Grave is probably not the right place for their information."

**I prefer not to link to Burials Unknown and will decline those edits. If you want to be rude about it...that's on you. Please send another edit when you find the location.

Dear Ancestor

"Your tombstone stands among the rest

Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished marble stone.

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh and blood and bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder how you lived and loved

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot

And come to visit you."

-Walter Butler Palmer