Well, this week has been alittle hectic with puppies, dr appts and other stuff. But I found a few minutes here and there to work on some stuff i've been looking for for myself and others. I was amazed at how much information a headstone can contain. :D That is if you can FIND the headstone in this jacked up county. In my search of a local graveyard, I was informed that in the 60's there was about 750 people moved into Docks Creek cemetary with no record of where they were put!! WTH!? I was amazed at how bad this upset me. When I saw "unmarked grave #3 moved from Hatfield cemetery by DOT" I was furious. I don't know about you, but alot of my research has me coming across locations of graves not by the headstone inscription, but by the LOCATION of where they were. So if someone has not mapped out the cemeterys they brought these people from and where the graves were in them. We have lost who that person is!! So now basically if it is an ancestor of yours that you want to go visit, you basically take a bunch of flowers there and lay it down in the middle cause you wont know who is who...

So realizing this, I have taken it upon myself to go to local graveyards, write down who is located where and take pics of the stones to put on findagrave.com BIGGGG mistake, not because it takes alot of time, but because the emotional toll it is taking on me. Even though I don't personally know the people involved, when I trip over a stone that is almost completely buried in the grown and covered with weeds was bad enough. But when I saw that this wonderful person was a medal recipient from world war I,, You could probably see steam coming off the top of my head. How completely wrong!!

  I miss the days of dinner on the ground. Playing in the tombstones while family talked and ate, then taking the time to maintain the graves of loved ones. No matter if it is father, grand father, or great grandfather 6x removed. They are part of who you are, they make you the person you see in the mirror everyday. Respect that and cherish it, if not you are nothing more than a leaf blowing in the breeze that has no idea you come from a tree....

Hi ya'll!!

I'm so tickled to have stumbled on this page. Having been at the whole 'digging up roots' thing for two years, I sometimes feel like i'm some babbling moron around others that have no interest in this topic. I guess thats why I love that saying "Genealogy- confusing dead relatives and annoying the living." lol

  I guess though that after years of following my mother to family get togethers and graveyards hearing about so and so five times removed. I was destined to start this sometime on my own. I think though the reason I am so driven, is I have no children. So to me the only legacy I am leaving is the ability to give others the roots they need to get their wings....

  I hope ya'll say hi and journey with me down this twisted path my jumbled tree takes me...

Renee'