Find-a-Grave.com has been a tremendous resource for me over the 20+ years I've been researching various branches of my family tree. Without it, it would've been harder and taken longer to connect relationships. I am therefore extremely grateful for the contributions of volunteers who visit cemeteries all over the world and post content to this public site. The key words here being "volunteers" and "public".

Find-a-Grave is a community for sharing information PUBLICLY in a variety of different formats. There is no paywall for this site. Sharing should not end with a picture of a headstone, and the names and dates transcribed from them. There was more to each person's life than their name and dates of birth and death. All of this is to say that I welcome your photos of those whose memorials I manage, as long as they were obtained ethically by you. I welcome obituary text, newspaper clippings and appropriate stories about them. You may also leave flowers.

I don't post anything publicly to the memorials I manage that I am not willing to share with others. So, please, feel free to take any photos, text or newspaper clippings that I post publicly to this site.

I do NOT require photo credit for any photos I take myself and post. They are pictures of headstones and sometimes the people buried there. They are not works of art. ;)

I am also happy to transfer memorials I manage to distant relatives who have a more direct relationship to the individuals than me. EXCEPTIONS: My mother, my father, and all generations of my grandparents. I will continue to maintain these memorials. Currently all but one memorial I manage are my family.

Over time (and time permitting) I may begin adding more memorials of people I do not know who are buried in cemeteries in my current city of Baltimore, Maryland. If I do, and I am managing your ancestor, I will happily transfer it to you. I have no bond with these individuals or feel any sense of ownership of memorials I have entered for people I have no connection to whatsoever. But if you do, I know you will take better care of it than me. :)

Find-a-Grave.com has been a tremendous resource for me over the 20+ years I've been researching various branches of my family tree. Without it, it would've been harder and taken longer to connect relationships. I am therefore extremely grateful for the contributions of volunteers who visit cemeteries all over the world and post content to this public site. The key words here being "volunteers" and "public".

Find-a-Grave is a community for sharing information PUBLICLY in a variety of different formats. There is no paywall for this site. Sharing should not end with a picture of a headstone, and the names and dates transcribed from them. There was more to each person's life than their name and dates of birth and death. All of this is to say that I welcome your photos of those whose memorials I manage, as long as they were obtained ethically by you. I welcome obituary text, newspaper clippings and appropriate stories about them. You may also leave flowers.

I don't post anything publicly to the memorials I manage that I am not willing to share with others. So, please, feel free to take any photos, text or newspaper clippings that I post publicly to this site.

I do NOT require photo credit for any photos I take myself and post. They are pictures of headstones and sometimes the people buried there. They are not works of art. ;)

I am also happy to transfer memorials I manage to distant relatives who have a more direct relationship to the individuals than me. EXCEPTIONS: My mother, my father, and all generations of my grandparents. I will continue to maintain these memorials. Currently all but one memorial I manage are my family.

Over time (and time permitting) I may begin adding more memorials of people I do not know who are buried in cemeteries in my current city of Baltimore, Maryland. If I do, and I am managing your ancestor, I will happily transfer it to you. I have no bond with these individuals or feel any sense of ownership of memorials I have entered for people I have no connection to whatsoever. But if you do, I know you will take better care of it than me. :)