I have been using Find A Grave for over 6 years now. It started out a great way to pass time during the COVID pandemic but more importantly to connect with relatives who have passed. I would like to give a special thank you to member Priscilla Parr (48240104), she was very helpful in getting me started and creating my first few memorials. Later I would find that she is a cousin, 5C2R. Also, thanks go to Don Bogart (48035385), he was very helpful with photos and locating my grandparents in my hometown cemetery. The Find A Grave group is great to work with. Predominantly made up of people who are very helpful with edits, transfers and their sharing of knowledge, thank you all! Thank you to the moderators of the website, your hard work makes Find A Grave a great place to work.

Unless permission is first requested from me, and then granted by me, the following applies to all my photos/artwork:

All photos that I have taken or otherwise created and uploaded to Find A Grave memorials shall not be copied or reproduced in any fashion, nor used elsewhere on Find A Grave or any other public or private media.

My personal goal; to find my forefathers and discover all the things they have to tell me. To add to that information with whatever family knowledge I have and what I have collected through other websites. To link those I find with their children and parents where that link is broken. I do this, not only for my family, but for others as well. I will stop and research a person, find their spouse, children, parents and any documentation in hopes of showing or telling the family's story. This documentation process is near and dear to my heart.

If I request from you a transfer of a relative's memorial I hope you will grant my wish. I believe it is important that these be managed and cared for by family members who are willing and interested, which I am both. I may also ask for the transfer of non-family if I feel the need to tell their story in length. I know this can be done without a transfer but it just makes it easier on everyone when I have maintenance privileges.

If you hung in there and read my profile to the end, here's a little Copypasta in Ancestral Mathematics.

To be born, we need:

2 Parents

4 Grandparents

8 Great-grandparents

16 Great-great-grandparents

32 3rd-great-grandparents

64 4th-great-grandparents

128 5th-great-grandparents

256 6th-great-grandparents

512 7th-great-grandparents

1024 8th-great-grandparents

2048 9th-great-grandparents

In just the last 11 generations, 4,094 ancestors were needed — all of this within approximately 300 years before you or I were born!

Stop for a moment and think...

Where did they come from?

How many battles did they fight?

How much hunger did they endure?

How many wars did they witness?

How many hardships did our ancestors survive?

On the other hand, how much love, strength, joy, and encouragement did they pass on to us?

How much of their will to survive did each of them leave within us, allowing us to be alive today?

We exist only because of everything each of them went through.

Best regards,

Bob Dean