When I first came across Find A Grave years ago, I thought it was an odd thing. I thought it was primarily for people looking for movie stars' graves. In the last ten years or so, however, I have been researching my father's World War II naval history aboard the USS Zircon (PY-16), as well as the USS YMS-75, AND the people with whom my mother attended St. Margaret Mary School in the Bronx in 1940, and I have found the site extremely valuable for locating family members of my dad's ship mates and my mom's classmates.

If, by chance, your father or other relative served aboard the USS Zircon (PY-16), the USS YMS-75, or the USS YF-415, please get in touch, either here or via the websites I've created for each of the ships (the most recent actually being about the YF-415 disaster).

Along the way, I have added information, photographs, and obituaries to memorials as a way of returning the favour, in hopes that my research can help others as they track down their family histories. I've also created a few memorial pages along the way, and I'd be happy to transfer management should you be related.