I was reminded this week by one of my Guest Writers’ articles about FindAGrave.com and using it to not only research your ancestors but also as way to memorialize them. So I puttered on over to the site, since I had not been there for a while. WOW.. while the site doesnt look very fancy, the Ancestry information that they have has really grown.
This is and entirely VOLUNTEER effort and always has been, which is rare in this day and age when everyone seems to be trying to turn their websites into money making endeavors and I was extremely impressed with some of the features they have. (Free request a photo of a Gravestone is my favorite). According to their site they have listings for over 56,000 graves!
I decided to poke around a bit since I had recently lost an Aunt to see what information might be there.. I have to say what I found brought tears to my eyes.. literally. I found my Aunt’s grave listing and the volunteer had also posted the Obituary but I also found my Uncle – her husband who I did not even know had passed and his obituary as well.
I was so sad, but grateful, not only to know he had passed but that some kind person had posted the obituary.
I did a little more digging and since a good portion of my tree resided fairly close by I refined my search to show everyone in that particular cemetery and found the memorials for 5 more ancestors.
If you would like to “dig” around at FindAGrave.com, subscription is free, you can upload and add to their database, or put flowers or notes on a family grave. Just one thing to mention, the first time I logged back in from the login page it kicked me back to the login, after looking around a bit, I noticed that I was indeed logged in and it showed in my status bar on the left hand side of the page. 
I really recommend this website.. One word of caution, addiction is possible… 5 hours and 2am came and went quickly a few nights ago and Im still recovering from the sleep deprivation.
Happy Trails…
This post was mentioned on Twitter by C. Greer.