"Find-A-Grave" is all about helping others and honoring those who have gone before us and will come after us; so, therefore.............................

Be Kind to Each Other, Have Fun, Enjoy Life & Happy Searching!

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Prayer for Genealogists

Lord, help me dig into the past

And sift the sands of time

That I might find the roots that made

This family tree of mine.

Lord, help me trace the ancient road

On which my fathers trod

And led them through so many lands

To find our present sod.

Lord, help me find an ancient book

Or dusty manuscript

That's safely hidden now away

In some forgotten crypt.

Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts

My soul when I can't find

The missing link between some name

That ends the same as mine.

---------by Curtis Woods

Life is just a stopping place, A pause in what's to be,

A resting place along the road to sweet eternity.

We all have different journeys,

Different paths along the way,

We all were meant to learn some things, but we were never meant to stay.

Our destination is a place, Far greater than we know.

For some the journey's quicker, For some the journey's slow.

And when the journey finally ends, We'll claim a great reward,

And find an everlasting peace, Together with the Lord

-----------Cadmus

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The Poem: "As I Sit In Heaven"

As I sit in heaven and watch you every day,

I try to let you know with signs I never went away.

I hear you when you're laughing, and watch you as you sleep,

I even place my arms around you to calm you as you weep.

I see you wish the days away, begging to have me home,

So I try to send you signs so you know you're not alone.

Don't feel guilty that you have life, life that was denied to me,

Heaven is truly beautiful, just you wait and see.

So live your life, laugh again, enjoy yourself, be free,

Then I know with every breath you take, you'll be taking one for me............

-------Authur Unknown

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

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 cast in bronze to pay warm tribute to accomplishments ad to the life – not the death of a loved one.

The cemetery is homeland for memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.

A cemetery is a history of people – a perpetual record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering always.

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A limb has fallen from my Family Tree. I keep hearing a voice that says,"Grieve not for me."

Remember the best times, the laughter, the song. The good life I lived while I was strong.

Continue my heritage, I'm counting on you.Keep smiling and surely the sun will shine through.My mind is at ease, my soul is at rest. Remembering all how truly I was blessed.

I miss you dearly, so keep up your chin. Until the day comes and we're together once again.

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"THE CLOCK OF LIFE"

The clock of life is wound but once. And no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop. On what day - or what hour.

Now is the only time you have. So live it with a will.

Don't wait until tomorrow. The hands may then be still.

Author - Unknown.

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" Cemeteries are not just places where people are buried, but rather outdoor libraries and museums; behind every gravestone waits a wonderful story ready to be told. "

[Unknown Author]

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༺༻ REQUESTS TO MANAGE MEMORIAL༺༻

If you find a memorial that you're related to and would like to manage it, please don't hesitate to reach out. I believe that family should be with family, and I'm happy to transfer management, provided I'm not personally connected to the individual myself.

To request a memorial transfer, click "Suggest Edits" on the memorial you want to transfer, then select "Suggest Other Corrections." In your request, please include your relationship to the individual.

༺༻ MEMORIAL EDIT SUGGESTIONS and CONTACT METHODS༺༻

If you need an edit made, please use the "Suggest Edit" option on the particular Find A Grave memorial that you are references.

All memorials are managed with the highest respect and dignity for the individuals and their families. If an immediate family member wishes to have specific information removed, updated, or added in the bio section, or if you would like the memorial itself removed, I will honor the family's wishes. Please accept my apologies if any actions taken are perceived otherwise. Managing these memorials is meant solely to honor their legacy and pay tribute to their memory in the best way I can.

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Lord, help me dig into the past

And sift the sands of time,

That I might find the roots that made

This family tree of mine.

Lord, help me trace the ancient roads

On which my father's trod,

And led them through so many lands

To find our present sod.

Lord, help me find an ancient book

Or dusty manuscript,

That's safely hidden now away

In some forgotten crypt.

Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts

My soul when I can't find,

The missing link between some name

That ends the same as mine.

-- Author Unknown

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FYI..............I go above and beyond by adding as much data as possible through research because I treat each memorial with the same care and respect as if they were my own family. I am NOT a memorial collector. All of these years of transcribing cemeteries allowed me to create memorials long before many others joined this site. Many were transferred to me by prior members, entrusting them to my care. This is a quest to preserve our heritage for future generations.

Transfers: I'm always willing to transfer a relative's memorial to you unless it is a relative of mine. I consider myself a "temporary steward" for many of these. Please don't send me a vague message asking a transfer for "John Smith." For the ones you are requesting, please use the edit tab for each person, click the "Contact Member" button and request a transfer. It's not up to me to figure out who you are referring to. If you have information that you want placed in the bio, edit the bio. Do not send the information in the notes while editing it to ensure it won't be overlooked. I encourage transfers, but not every single person with the same surname or every person I manage in a specific cemetery.

Edits: Please use the edit tab to request changes. I can't stress this enough- if you want something added to the bio, use the edit tab. Don't put them in the "notes." No corrections will be made from the message section. This is what the feature was developed for. If you are making a major edit such as unlinking parents, I need an explanation in the "notes" section.

Many of the memorials that I've "inherited" contain errors, so I appreciate everyone's help with edits. If you send me an edit, I should be able to trust that it was adequately researched. Too many times, I get an email with no memorial numbers or member number. I am not going to do the research to figure out which one you want transferred. Please do not send an edit to change a person's birth based solely on old death certificates which are known for being incorrect. Also, when I first started here there was no ability to link people and many name places weren't added yet.

Name Places: I add/edit information such as death places narrowed down to the exact place despite what an obituary, etc. might list. Remember- people tend to "generalize" places. Many neighborhoods in my area may be referred to as "Johnstown" but in fact may actually be in a neighboring municipality. Please don't take offense if I send edits under this reasoning. Wrong name places may confuse those that aren't familiar with the area when doing research.

Duplicates: Do not send me a message that you found a duplicate memorial. If you find it, then submit it the proper way via the edit tab.

Military Rank: I will NOT remove the rank from a memorial, as per guidance received from the site admin's. VA Burial Cards lists rank, as does military markers. This site was first meant to be a grave registration site. This is not a "Stolen Valor" issue. Don't send me the same regurgitated "references" that you most likely didn't research on your own or lecture me about it.

Obituaries: I will post obituaries to my memorials as long as the proper citation is made to give the proper credit for the source. If family members want their information private, then they should consider not having it published in the local newspaper/website and funeral home website. There is no legal expectation to privacy when the information has been made public. If you send a transcribed version of an obituary for the bio, please proofread it first. Do NOT send the requests through an email.

Comments: Any negative comments submitted will be forwarded to the site administrators. Lately, I've come across a few rude people on here. I'm done dealing with rudeness.

Photos: Ancestry Copyright Policy- Content contributed to public area of the Ancestry sites by users remains the property of the submitter or of the original creator, and we are a licensed distributor of such content. When a copyright violation occurs, the submitter, and not Ancestry, has violated copyright. Please credit me if using my photos elsewhere. This includes Ancestry.com, your personal genealogy page, etc. I don't mind if you use my photos, just please cite your source!

If I post a photo on a memorial in which you had already posted one, please don't take offense- sometimes additional photos under other conditions (ie- light, weather, etc.) can provide a whole different perspective. Many times, I've swapped out my own photos when conditions were different the second time around and the new photo had more detail, especially with worn stones. If you are the owner of that memorial and don't want someone else's photos just ask and I will remove it. Likewise, if you have a photo to add to mine that can help enhance the memorial, please feel free to contribute. Twice I have lost thousands of photos with computer issues before I was able to back them up. By posting these, duplicate or not, I've been able to go back and save them from the memorials.