2026 -Please put a Flower on your memorials that you are taking care of.

Everyone should have at least one flower.

If you do lay claim to the memorials of others, please update those memorials.

"History Belongs to All of Us"

Help History come alive, participate in your local Historical Society.

 I am a member of several genealogy organizations and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Hi,

A shout out to all for taking the time and energy to photograph/input records. And especially if you take the time to connect families together. THANK YOU! It is the QUALITY and not the QUANTITY of memorials that make a difference!

Thank you to everyone for fulfilling my photo requests and edits! I appreciate all the active and dedicated volunteer CONTRIBUTORS!

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest

Neglected and alone

The name and date are chiseled out

on polished marbled 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, in blood, in 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 as you lived and loved

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot

and come and visit you.

By Walter Butler Palmer (1906)