Academic training in Archaeology, History and Anthropology. Recently retired after thirty year career in Finance. I am not a F.G. "collector" of memorials. Prefer to do high quality photos, research, exact inscription recordings and correct mistakes. I also lead a cemetery conservation group that cleans and repairs historic grave stones.

My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather William Morris is the only amateur grave stone carver known by name in Illinois. His grandfather Sam Morris was on the town committee in 1740s Stratford on Avon that repaired the Shakespeare funerary monument. It's genetic.

Primarily interested in Cemeteries in Randolph Co., Illinois, Preble Co., Ohio and Abbeville District, S.C.