Hi Everyone!

Suggestions that I can not document might be added with the date I change the memorial and who provided me with the information.

Please note that I follow Find A Grave guidelines and DO NOT post a full obituary that I have not written on the memorials. I will index the parents, a spouse, and the marriage date, if possible. I will also post where I found the memorial/obituary, so the full information can be found.

Here are the guidelines from the Find A Grave announcement page

What information can I include in a non-famous bio?

Personal information:

The focus of a biography is memorializing the individual's life with preference to an originally written biography. We ask that those who index and memorialize the deceased from newspapers and other third-party accounts do so with full respect of copyright, refrain from adding information about living people (e.g., survivors) to protect their privacy, and respond generously to the family of the deceased.

How long is the U.S. copyright law?

Generally, for most works created after 1978, protection lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. For anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, the copyright term is 95 years from the year of first publication or 120 years from the year of creation, whichever comes first.

SO IF YOU ARE SENDING ME AN EDIT THAT CONTAINS AN OBITUARY PLEASE PROVIDE THE SOURCE. I won't do anything without the source information.

I appreciate the memorials that contain the obituary. I will not add obituaries to the memorials I manage unless the obituary is obviously in the public domain (e.g., before 1900). Not knowing whether the copyright is owned by the family, the funeral home, or the newspaper.

If you have found an obituary for a 100-year-old death, please also cite the newspaper and the date it was published.

If I can find the person's parents, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I will link them. But I do not spend much time researching to find that link.

Additionally, while documenting cemeteries, I will take photos of both temporary and permanent markers. Both contain documentation of the grave.

Any picture that I take for this site, you are welcome to use.... Make sure to check out the Iowa GenWeb site if you are looking for loved ones in central Iowa; they are doing a wonderful job of documenting cemeteries. Those photos are copyright-protected, but they can help you locate someone and then ask for a photo here.