I am retired with a 30 year interest in searching my family history. I understand the importance and thrill of finding the final resting place of our ancestors. I live in the Tampa Bay area now but my roots are in the southern Illinois counties of Franklin, Perry and Jackson and St Clair. Some family names that I research are Mabus, Merkel, Schaeffer, Weston, Prior, Kirkpatrick, McGuire, Duncan.

I am retired with a 30 year interest in searching my family history. I understand the importance and thrill of finding the final resting place of our ancestors. I live in the Tampa Bay area now but my roots are in the southern Illinois counties of Franklin, Perry and Jackson and St Clair. Some family names that I research are Mabus, Merkel, Schaeffer, Weston, Prior, Kirkpatrick, McGuire, Duncan.