I began taking a closer look at my family's genealogy and history about 2004. Much of my early work was through searching the Internet and building a personal collection of data (consisting mainly of family records, visits to local genealogical societies, and vital record requests with various state agencies). In 2006 I joined Ancestry.com and this broadened the information available to me. For the first couple of years I kept my Ancestry tree private because I wanted the information to be as accurate as possible before making it public. I care about the information I research, but knowing I'm human I can also make errors. If you see an inaccuracy, please let me know. As of 2020, I had 3,000 people in my Ancestry.com family tree.

I joined Find A Grave around 2011, but did not contribute much until 2020 because I wanted to focus on the work I was doing with Ancestry.com (and I thought it would be too overwhelming to try to manage data on 2 sites). Nearly all the people I have memorialized on Find A Grave are in my family tree or closely associated to someone in my family.

There are many people in my family tree where I don't know their final resting place. For example, some graves are unmarked, cemetery names have changed over time, records are thin or missing for some family members, or I don't have a relevant obituary or Death Certificate.

Many of my Find A Grave memorials are concentrated in 2 geographical areas: Northeast Maryland / Southeast Pennsylvania (my Dad's family) and Southwest Virginia (my Mother's family). The earliest arrivals to America in my Dad's family date to the 1730s (Edward Pearce, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1737) and my Mother's family to the 1630s (Richard Hale, Charles City County, Virginia, 1638).

If you have any memorial updates or any questions please let me know.

I began taking a closer look at my family's genealogy and history about 2004. Much of my early work was through searching the Internet and building a personal collection of data (consisting mainly of family records, visits to local genealogical societies, and vital record requests with various state agencies). In 2006 I joined Ancestry.com and this broadened the information available to me. For the first couple of years I kept my Ancestry tree private because I wanted the information to be as accurate as possible before making it public. I care about the information I research, but knowing I'm human I can also make errors. If you see an inaccuracy, please let me know. As of 2020, I had 3,000 people in my Ancestry.com family tree.

I joined Find A Grave around 2011, but did not contribute much until 2020 because I wanted to focus on the work I was doing with Ancestry.com (and I thought it would be too overwhelming to try to manage data on 2 sites). Nearly all the people I have memorialized on Find A Grave are in my family tree or closely associated to someone in my family.

There are many people in my family tree where I don't know their final resting place. For example, some graves are unmarked, cemetery names have changed over time, records are thin or missing for some family members, or I don't have a relevant obituary or Death Certificate.

Many of my Find A Grave memorials are concentrated in 2 geographical areas: Northeast Maryland / Southeast Pennsylvania (my Dad's family) and Southwest Virginia (my Mother's family). The earliest arrivals to America in my Dad's family date to the 1730s (Edward Pearce, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1737) and my Mother's family to the 1630s (Richard Hale, Charles City County, Virginia, 1638).

If you have any memorial updates or any questions please let me know.