Hello, my name is Tyler, I'm 28 years old and I live in Northeast Indiana. I found this website while searching for the owner of an old army duffel bag my mother found while cleaning out my stepfather's father's garage. As he was a hoarder, the garage was quite full of junk, mostly metal parts that we've since sold. But this duffel bag was interesting, so I went to googling. I found FindAGrave.com, and it rekindled my interest in genealogy.

This website is a brilliant idea. For long have I marveled at how fragile a human's existence is. Throughout the day, I drive by hundreds of people. All of which with their own lives, with family members, and ancestors. Every life just as complex and rich as my own. And although I have only shared this Earth for a fraction of some of the people I meet, I know one day we will all meet the same fate.

We die twice. Once when we release our last breath. Second when our name is spoken for the last time. Stone erodes with time. I have seen far too many graves with illegible names. Lives, maybe forever lost. They have died their second time. What FindAGrave gives us is a way to keep the dead from dying their second time. Although the Internet is still in its infancy, it has the ability to hold an image for much longer than stone. We can stop people from dying their second time with the multitudes of databases designed to hold millions of records of the lives of many. Census records, digitized for future generations to marvel at the lives that were led to bring them into this world.

I like history of individuals more than history as a whole, I feel.