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Find A Grave has been a great resource for genealogical research. My thanks to everyone who has contributed to this site. Any photo I've added is yours to use if you ask me. The information and photos have been placed there so others can use them, and I'm happy to share and contribute what I can.

While I'm thinking of it, when you take a volunteer photo for someone, it's a great idea to also take a picture of the adjoining graves and also take an area shot. Post these at the highest resolution rate that find-a-grave will allow. This can often greatly enhance the value for the member who requested the photo.

In older cemeteries, headstones sometimes have photo-ceramics attached. Please take up-close, careful shots of them. Because of vandalism and time, you may very well be the last person to ever see that portrait. Posting a good shot of the photo-ceramic on the memorial helps provide a kind of immortality to the long-ago deceased.

I've always felt that what we do here is to provide a service to others, both now and in the future. We are compiling information so that a user at some point could locate where someone is buried. By posting a photograph, you have the additional benefit of enabling someone to have a "virtual" visit to the cemetery, when it is no longer possible, whether by health or distance, for them to do so.