I've retired three times and like to keep busy. I enjoy genealogy and have been somewhat active at it for about 30 years. Lately I have photographed 10 cemeteries in Elkhart County, Indiana that have a low percentage of gravestones photographed. As I go through a cemetery I often find unrecorded graves. If I have created one of your family members I will gladly transfer that site to you. In addition please feel free to use or share any photos that I have provided. I enjoy it when family members add information via the edit process.

I often double check for errors in my process but with the number of sites I have created there will undoubtedly be some errors that slip through. For those I will apologize in advance. Please feel free to correct me when I make a mistake, I will not take offense.

Cemeteries photographed: Adams-Neff Cemetery; Cornell Cemetery; Elkhart Prairie (Alwine) Goshen; Geisinger- Cooper Cemetery; Grace Lawn (Middlebury) Cemetery; Hire cemetery; Little Pine Cemetery; Pleasant View Cemetery; Solomon Creek Cemetery; Sparta Cemetery (Noble County); St Vincent DePaul Cemetery; Violet Cemetery; West Goshen Cemetery

Current and future projects:

Note: Indexes include Find A Grave memorial number along with (when known) deceased & spouse , parents, birth & death dates and source published.

Bristol Banner Newspaper – Weekly newspaper from Apr 1877 to Mar 1980. These files are only available at the Bristol Public Library. Because early obituaries many time are merely a death notice, as an experiment I have enhanced these files from different resources. I have completed my error checking for 1877 to 1920. It has about 8,000 obits. I have collected another 11,000 obits from 1921 to 1980, and have enhanced that section. This project now complete.

The Elkhart Truth – One of my previous projects was to collect obituaries from 1999 to 2021. The Truth began to add parents names to obituaries in Jan 1999. During the 5 years it took to complete these obits it includes about 82,000 files.

The Elkhart Review 1859-1917 This newspaper appears to have changed names a few times: Elkhart Review, Elkhart Weekly Review, Elkhart Evening Review, Elkhart Daily Review are some of the names. I'm up to 1879 on this one.

The Goshen News – I have digitized the obituary index card file of the Goshen News located at the Goshen library. It goes from about 1970 to 1997. It will be about 38,000 files when complete. I will expand to include up to 2004. The online access to Goshen News obits begins 30 Nov2004, but their limit is 4 obit look ups per month before requiring a subscription.

Goshen Democrat – Current project. Newspaper archives and Goshen Library have records from 1839 to 1917. There are over 4,000 issues to search. Completed up to 1882.

The Goshen Times - Newspaper archive.com has 1859 to 1895. - completed

Middlebury – I have a copy of the obituary index file from library records. Newspaper archive.com has 1877 to 1923 and the library records to up to 1980. I have digitized the entire library index to make it compatible with my other obit files.

Millersburg Grit - Weekly newspaper found at Newspaperarchive.com They have about 550 issues available from 1895 to 1923. About 2/3 complete