Understand that I am here to collaborate with others, and I do my best to link every single person I come across to their family- I often research far beyond my family tree in order to do that and then delete them from my full Ancestry.com tree. You may very often see me popping up in your tree for that reason when there is absolutely zero relationship to me, and doing this often helps to fill in holes in my own tree I wouldn't otherwise know! That said...

I am NOT here for numbers, and I treat every single memorial as if they were a living person. My time with Hospice has taught me to truly value the lessons we all learn in death and I have a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for hoarders who do absolutely nothing for no one but themselves. Treat each memorial with the dignity it deserves, or please, find another hobby/way to bring meaning into your life because collecting memorials and doing nothing with them or becoming wildly inappropriate with people who call you out for slacking on your Memorial "Manager" duties does not fly with me. If you can manage tens or hundreds of thousands of memorials and you do nothing but tend to them all day, every single day, day in and day out, carry on and this isn't meant for you.

I am absolutely thrilled with the resources available through Find A Grave!! The goal I had initially was to fill in holes, but my family has come alive beyond data points entered into my tree. I have a much better understanding of who they were and the lives they led, which includes the place they came to rest at the end of that life.

I was initially working on researching the family tree of William and Mary Woodcock (26188934 and 26188936)- my Great Great Great Grandparents. While they were born in England, they came to NYS in the 1820s. All of their children (12 in all I believe) were born in NYS. Those 12 children were born to farmers, many became farmers themselves or married farmers-- living and dying in and around St. Lawrence County, having spent the entirety of their lives in the county or the surrounding counties. A few spread their wings well beyond St. Lawrence County, well beyond New York and a few even traveled beyond the borders of the United States.

I am also researching the Mangiaracina/Livoti and the Arena/Momamolite/Dagostino lines from Italy and NYC as well as Zimmerman/Weber and the Poppe/Bastian lines from NYC and Germany.

I just started researching the Lashbrooks/Boney lines, which is my cousin's maternal line that she knows little about.

Interest in Lazaro and Co lines from The Philippines.

If you connect back to them, or any of their line, I'd love to hear from you-- I am open to messaging and potentially connecting further from there!