Greetings!

You are welcome to take and share any of my uploads/photos.

I mostly work on family but I do have some that I have added along the way that are not. If they are not my family, I'm happy to transfer them to you. If family, I will transfer within guidelines.

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FAMILY PROJECT:

I began exploring findAgrave in September of 2020, grateful for many volunteers that came before me who created family memorials. I have found that I have a lot of family who settled in the Midwest (mainly Minnesota and Iowa area). I also have a lot of family in the East Coast (mainly New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts). I noticed quite quickly that many family memorials were not established yet and begun the project of creating them. I have to say that right from the start I was amazed to find that so many of my photo requests were claimed and fulfilled... and I continue to be amazed as each kind soul fulfills another request. Shortly after I started this project I was assisted by a fellow findAgraver who lives in Massachusetts and had taken a few photos of family resting places. His photos are always well thought out and stunning. Since then, he has taken it upon himself to help me every chance he gets... he has done many of my family memorials in the Boston area. Thank you John for helping to bring each memorial to life.

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PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU SEND ME AN EDIT WITH NO DOCUMENTATION AND I CAN NOT FIND PROOF THEN I CAN NOT COMPLETE THE EDIT. IT IS ESPECIALLY FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU HAVE MESSAGES TURNED OFF... DON'T REQUEST AND EDIT, ATTACH NO DOCUMENTATION, AND GIVE NO WAY TO CONTACT YOU... YUCK.

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Family names of interest are: Walsh/Walch/Welsh/Welch/Walse (Methodism)

Durgins of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine (Durgin Scroll)

McLaughlin

Behrends

Knudson

Fiedler

McNeil

Seery

Drew

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As of May 2024...

27 Cremations

10 Buried or Lost at Sea

1 Donated to Medical Science

2 Lost at War

2 Animal/Pet

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A CALLING:

What calls us to find the ancestors? It goes beyond a simple curiosity. We are taken over, compelled, as if possessed by something bigger than us that is begging to be revealed. There is one of us in most every family, called to be the scribe. I am but one of the many in the long line of storytellers of our clan. Like others I am called to gather and assemble the ancestors—to breathe life back into them as far back as we can reach. We take what we find and chronicle the facts of their existence, remembering their names and who they were and what they did. They are the sum of who we are, for without them, we would not exist. We greet those who came before us, restoring their place in the familial line. We scribe their stories and their histories. We search for them in public libraries, county records, and weed-filled or well-kept cemeteries. We comb through yellowed newspapers, family archives, and lovely old letters and photo albums. We find them! And in finding them—we find ourselves.

Catherine (Clemens) Sevenau, Sep 2009

(Ed Smith findAgrave #47100545 )