I have been dabbling in genealogy since 1975. I have a rather large data base that I put on ancestry.com in 2009, which I had built up over the years. I like Find A Grave because I find it easy to navigate. I am trying to connect lonely memorials out there to their families.

I have several names in my ancestry: Kirk, Baskin, Cuscaden (Corscadden, Kaskadden and other variations), Ames and more. My eight ancestral surnames are Kirk, Myers, Reckin, Schreiner, Kramer, Rudloff, Ziehm and Ullrich.