My name is pronounced......My' nah!

PLEASE PLEASE, let's all be respectful about changes and suggestions. We all make mistakes.

Here's a new word I learned today.

COIMETROMANIA - (n.) an abnormal attraction to and desire to visit cemeteries. Can you relate?

****EDITS***Should people's OCD issues on how a memorial page that YOU manage looks, burden your day????. (Poem...delete, census info.... delete....without linking family members in said census records.

Section: E, Lot: 5....or.....Section E Lot 5

NO!!!!!!!!!!!

Instead, use your talents and resources to make helpful changes and link family members together. Acting like the 'Find A Grave police' is so uncool!

Currently working on adding photos, obituaries and linking my family members together.

(June 2022)

Ashland, WI - Saint Agnes Cemetery.

(May 2022) Assumption B V M Cemetery in Pulaski. I only photographed and walked section #1. We decoded some Polish headstones and looked for birds.

(2022) Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery, Bonduel, WI

Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Hortonville, Wisconsin.

Started in June of 2021, it was only 49% complete at the time. Finished the upper east and started on the north side.

Update- visited in April of 2022. Finished the north side by the new apartments. Then the lower west by sexton garage. Just have to walk through the oldest headstones by the second driveway.

Athens, Wisconsin- this is on going....

Glad to answer questions about these three cemeteries.

(I have walked through every grave to make sure it is photographed and recorded. Jean Balz, sexton is helping me to be very thorough, as they would like to link the FAG site to their Athens Village website).

*Calvary Cemetery - Athens, WI (7/2020)

*Athens Cemetery (9/2020)

*Trinity Luthern (8/2020)

I will be going back and adding all the plot numbers for these three cemeteries. Also, I will be adding all the "No Headstone" listing from the directories. I will be visiting the Athens Catholic and Lutheran Churches for more info. and will continue to find newspaper obits and complete missing info. for these memorial pages.

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COMPLETE WALK THROUGH...

*Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery - Berlin, Marathon Co.

(finished 7/2020)

*Memorial Park Cemetery - Advance, WI (finished 6/2020)

*Bethal West Cemetery - Green Valley, WI. (finished 6/2020)

*Fenwood Cemetery, Fenwood, WI (finished 5/2020)

*Christ Lutheran Cemetery - Holton, WI

(4/2020)

*Sacred Heart Cemetery - Stetsonville, WI. (March 2021)

*Rural Home Cemetery - Big Bend, WI

(May & June 2021)

*Faith Lutheran Cemetery South

Taegesville, Marathon County, WI (July 2021)

I'm a dairy farmer located in central Wisconsin, who joined FAG to do ancestry on my own family. I enjoy documenting graves, so that others can find their kin. I'm very grateful to those who have helped me in my research and am happy to return the favor. For every memorial I enter onto this site, that's another memorial that has a chance of getting into the hands of a family member.

When my kids were younger they loved to help me fulfill photo requests. Now, most of the time its just me.

PHOTOS - Any photos I have taken may be used by you.

For many descendants of the deceased, this single grave photo may be the last piece of visual remembrance left of a special friend or long lost family member.

OBITUARIES plus Extra info.

Should we add obituaries? As a person who is searching for ancestors, I am very much in favor of adding as much info. to memorials as possible, while at the same time I don't want to be insensitive to living family members. I believe that when the family submits information into a public forum like a newspaper or funeral home website, they want that information to be public. They want a record of their loved one's life. Isn't that what Find a Grave is all about?

I have cousins and extended elderly family members that occasionally ask what I have found in my genealogy persuits, as they are not on Ancestry, but do have access to a computer. They love reading the obituaries I have attached to FAG and have asked me to find lost friends and classmates.

Think about this....you create a FAG memorial page from a death indexing list or from the newspaper. Perhaps, your a numbers seeker, perhaps not. Is the information you created correct? There is no headstone photos associated with this...'so called' memorial page....just some dates and a name. But if an obituary is included ~with~ the memorial page it makes it so much more BELIEVEABLE!!

My Find A Grave photos and the obituaries I add here are with the HOPE they are discovered and shared by a loved one. Perhaps, I unearthed a lost marker beneath sod or weeds, braved the unpredictable elements of nature, or have done extra research all in an effort to find answers, provide proof and document what is left behind.

MEMORIAL PAGES - I'm willing to transfer ALL pages that are not related to me. Just ask.... If you asked and I still didn't follow through.... sometimes my emails get sent to the trash and I don't always check there....so ASK AGAIN!!!!

"My goal is to get folks reconnected with their families, not to run up my stats. It makes my day to see folks "go home.""

From FAG member Kathy.

Always looking for the following surnames.....DERRY, CASTLE, CLARK, BARRETT, FESSENBECKER, NEIDERHAUSER, GUMIENY, GUMIENNY, HEIDGER, BLUMENBURG, BLUMBERG, SCHWOERER, STRZELEC, BRZEZINSKI.