Christine R.
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The work being done here serves to preserve history and make the information available to more people.
PRESERVATION includes images of the grave markers before they end up eroded, claimed by mother nature, or destroyed in a natural disaster. The other side is about the people who were laid to rest in those plots with those markers. They had stories and families.
MORE ACCESS to digital information means someone who can't travel across the country can see their great grandparents' grave site for the first time or discover other relatives and ancestors they may not have known about. Being able to find those memorials is also important to preservation.
If you can't find them, they get lost in the crowd, in a way forgotten.
Anyone whose family is FRENCH-CANADIAN and their ancestors lived in an area that was formerly part of NOUVELLE-FRANCE (New France) understands the struggle in finding records. Half of mine was in Clinton County, NY where almost everyone's name was anglicized with multiple spellings of that new name. Some went back to the French surname, some embraced the new name, and some went back and forth.
This makes it hard to find ancestors' graves. Don't you want your grave found by future generations?
It took a long time to find my 2nd great grandfather even though everything pointed to him not making it out of NY alive with his family. My memorials that are my relatives and ancestors have multiple names when applicable. The reason is so that someone else in my family or their descendants' descendants can find them. I don't want them to struggle like I did (even armed with genealogical research) or get discouraged and give up.
Please know this is why I will not accept edits that involve removing any of the "extra" names I've researched. The name someone is born with may not be the same they were baptized with, married with, married a 2nd time with (Seriously in my family!), or died with, etc. It's multifaceted, complicated, and I have reasons for including them. The name on the grave marker should be in the list of names. If not, please feel free to send a suggestion to add it.
I reached out to Find a Grave and was told it was fine to include the other names someone appeared with but the format is to use a space between them. If I haven't gotten rid of the "/" I used previously, please feel free to send a suggestion to fix it. I'm trying to catch them all but no one's perfect.
Thank you for taking the time to read my profile.
PRESERVATION includes images of the grave markers before they end up eroded, claimed by mother nature, or destroyed in a natural disaster. The other side is about the people who were laid to rest in those plots with those markers. They had stories and families.
MORE ACCESS to digital information means someone who can't travel across the country can see their great grandparents' grave site for the first time or discover other relatives and ancestors they may not have known about. Being able to find those memorials is also important to preservation.
If you can't find them, they get lost in the crowd, in a way forgotten.
Anyone whose family is FRENCH-CANADIAN and their ancestors lived in an area that was formerly part of NOUVELLE-FRANCE (New France) understands the struggle in finding records. Half of mine was in Clinton County, NY where almost everyone's name was anglicized with multiple spellings of that new name. Some went back to the French surname, some embraced the new name, and some went back and forth.
This makes it hard to find ancestors' graves. Don't you want your grave found by future generations?
It took a long time to find my 2nd great grandfather even though everything pointed to him not making it out of NY alive with his family. My memorials that are my relatives and ancestors have multiple names when applicable. The reason is so that someone else in my family or their descendants' descendants can find them. I don't want them to struggle like I did (even armed with genealogical research) or get discouraged and give up.
Please know this is why I will not accept edits that involve removing any of the "extra" names I've researched. The name someone is born with may not be the same they were baptized with, married with, married a 2nd time with (Seriously in my family!), or died with, etc. It's multifaceted, complicated, and I have reasons for including them. The name on the grave marker should be in the list of names. If not, please feel free to send a suggestion to add it.
I reached out to Find a Grave and was told it was fine to include the other names someone appeared with but the format is to use a space between them. If I haven't gotten rid of the "/" I used previously, please feel free to send a suggestion to fix it. I'm trying to catch them all but no one's perfect.
Thank you for taking the time to read my profile.
The work being done here serves to preserve history and make the information available to more people.
PRESERVATION includes images of the grave markers before they end up eroded, claimed by mother nature, or destroyed in a natural disaster. The other side is about the people who were laid to rest in those plots with those markers. They had stories and families.
MORE ACCESS to digital information means someone who can't travel across the country can see their great grandparents' grave site for the first time or discover other relatives and ancestors they may not have known about. Being able to find those memorials is also important to preservation.
If you can't find them, they get lost in the crowd, in a way forgotten.
Anyone whose family is FRENCH-CANADIAN and their ancestors lived in an area that was formerly part of NOUVELLE-FRANCE (New France) understands the struggle in finding records. Half of mine was in Clinton County, NY where almost everyone's name was anglicized with multiple spellings of that new name. Some went back to the French surname, some embraced the new name, and some went back and forth.
This makes it hard to find ancestors' graves. Don't you want your grave found by future generations?
It took a long time to find my 2nd great grandfather even though everything pointed to him not making it out of NY alive with his family. My memorials that are my relatives and ancestors have multiple names when applicable. The reason is so that someone else in my family or their descendants' descendants can find them. I don't want them to struggle like I did (even armed with genealogical research) or get discouraged and give up.
Please know this is why I will not accept edits that involve removing any of the "extra" names I've researched. The name someone is born with may not be the same they were baptized with, married with, married a 2nd time with (Seriously in my family!), or died with, etc. It's multifaceted, complicated, and I have reasons for including them. The name on the grave marker should be in the list of names. If not, please feel free to send a suggestion to add it.
I reached out to Find a Grave and was told it was fine to include the other names someone appeared with but the format is to use a space between them. If I haven't gotten rid of the "/" I used previously, please feel free to send a suggestion to fix it. I'm trying to catch them all but no one's perfect.
Thank you for taking the time to read my profile.
PRESERVATION includes images of the grave markers before they end up eroded, claimed by mother nature, or destroyed in a natural disaster. The other side is about the people who were laid to rest in those plots with those markers. They had stories and families.
MORE ACCESS to digital information means someone who can't travel across the country can see their great grandparents' grave site for the first time or discover other relatives and ancestors they may not have known about. Being able to find those memorials is also important to preservation.
If you can't find them, they get lost in the crowd, in a way forgotten.
Anyone whose family is FRENCH-CANADIAN and their ancestors lived in an area that was formerly part of NOUVELLE-FRANCE (New France) understands the struggle in finding records. Half of mine was in Clinton County, NY where almost everyone's name was anglicized with multiple spellings of that new name. Some went back to the French surname, some embraced the new name, and some went back and forth.
This makes it hard to find ancestors' graves. Don't you want your grave found by future generations?
It took a long time to find my 2nd great grandfather even though everything pointed to him not making it out of NY alive with his family. My memorials that are my relatives and ancestors have multiple names when applicable. The reason is so that someone else in my family or their descendants' descendants can find them. I don't want them to struggle like I did (even armed with genealogical research) or get discouraged and give up.
Please know this is why I will not accept edits that involve removing any of the "extra" names I've researched. The name someone is born with may not be the same they were baptized with, married with, married a 2nd time with (Seriously in my family!), or died with, etc. It's multifaceted, complicated, and I have reasons for including them. The name on the grave marker should be in the list of names. If not, please feel free to send a suggestion to add it.
I reached out to Find a Grave and was told it was fine to include the other names someone appeared with but the format is to use a space between them. If I haven't gotten rid of the "/" I used previously, please feel free to send a suggestion to fix it. I'm trying to catch them all but no one's perfect.
Thank you for taking the time to read my profile.
