I am interested in any information on the following relatives:

Lipar (Harrietta MI)

Frank (Coleman)

Verwey Mt. Pleasant

Marhofer Beal City (The last reunion they had 15 copies of the Marhofer family tree all the way back to Germany. Unfortunately, one of the cousins gave them all out, and after the reunion, she went back to get more copies and the document was deleted or lost). If you have a copy of the family tree, please share a copy with me.

I love cleaning and taking pictures of gravestones. I mostly work on church cemeteries. Where I live they are a lot smaller, and in need of some TLC. And I take pictures of everything. I usually find 1 to 2 stones that have never been posted, from the past. And that is what makes it interesting. Now picture taking is done for the winter.

I am now volunteering, and am currently finding obituaries and posting them for St. Andrew's Cemetery, Find a Grave, Saginaw, MI. Starting at the A's until I am done. I am officially done with St. Andrew's Cemetery. To all the volunteers, a big thank you. I hope the information provided will help individuals looking for their relatives, and possibly getting them started to find other relatives. There is alot of history there. I was recently contacted from Germany that had found relatives in the St. Andrew's Cemetery. All the information that everyone worked on is making a big difference.

Where I see a need for Volunteering is to get with the Library in your area and see what can be done to either get the obituaries online on their site (a lot of this is on microfilm and will not last forever), or find them, and add them into Find a Grave. It is something that children can help look for and it provides a great history lesson.

I like reading stories from WWI. These two I just finished:

Fatal Decision Edith Cavell World War I Nurse by Terri Arthur. She is not well known, but she is the next Florence Nightingale. It is heart stopping.

The Last of the Doughboys by Richard Rubin. The US does not keep track of the veterans from WWI. But France sure does, and that is how Richard Rubin found the names of the US veterans and their stories, they are all over 100.