I live near Seattle Washington where I concentrate on family from OH, PA, NY, the UK, Poland and Slovakia, and anywhere else I find them, and family members of a few close friends.

"Remember me in the family tree -- my name, my days, my strife.

Then I'll ride upon the wings of time and live an endless life. (Goetsch)

THIS IS A CEMETERY -----

"Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families

are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is

undisguised. This is a cemetery."

"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,

historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.

"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved

in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -

not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living."

"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of

yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery

exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."

Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA