My mother loved genealogy and used to tell me so many stories. Sadly I didn't understand the depth of what it all meant and wish she were here other than in spirit in my journey.

She and my younger sister didn't have access to all the online records available today so she wrote letters and spent countless hours in libraries and writing letters to retrieve documents. Thankfully my younger sister understood the value of their hard work and had the space to store all of it. I continue the journey with love and passion.

Find A Grave is an invaluable tool in my journey and have become more involved mostly working my local cemetery and looking for ancestors.

Those who know me do not understand the passion all of us have for what they call are 'dead people.' They think it's morbid and think ghosts; I think of love and connections and never forgetting the contributions they made, good or bad.

Please feel free to request a transfer of memorials. If I am not related to the person the only interest I had was making sure they are not forgotten or lost.

I am working a project with a group of woman to ensure every grave at our cemetery is listed and photographed.

There are times I run across brand new headstones and photograph them and usually create a memorial. This can be very upsetting to the loved ones who either wanted to create one or have stumbled upon the one I created. We understand it is a shock to see the memorial is already created. Know that it was created out of love. I do it because I do not want anyone to forget your person. Know that most people do not know all these memorials exist or didn't know they can set up a free account.

Please - if you are related or want to manage it for the family I will transfer it to you. The only reason I won't transfer is if they are my family - even still we can negotiate that!

I apologize the amount of edits I request. Most of these memorials are unmarked (no headstone). I am using a variety of cemetery and/or online records to add dates and grave locations so the grave/person can be located and headstones photographed.

Please research the burial location. My main focus in Mountain View in Auburn, Washington. In 2022 and 2023 we have:
- entered 3,000 memorials
- researched 2,300 memorials, and
- Added plot numbers to about 1,200 memorials
- Merged duplicates
- Change burial location to the correct cemetery
- There are 80 records still to be resolved

Here are a few links to help locate your loved one.
- https://www.auburnwa.gov/city_hall/mountain_view_cemetery
- https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Home

Remember Find A Grave is an invaluable tool for genealogy research. But we are all volunteers. While striving for accuracy we do make mistakes. We know though, to use more than one source for proof. Find A Grave is not a family tree. There are free and inexpensive websites for this purpose. Find A Grave serves two purposes - memorializing a person's life and documenting their final disposition. It's important to create the memorial in the correct cemetery.

Please do some research - not everybody is in a cemetery. Not everybody is buried in the town they live in.

Lastly - There is Mountain View in Auburn, King County, Washington. If the death certificate says Mountain View, Tacoma. It is Mountain View Memorial Park in Lakewood, Pierce County, Washington. Lakewood was part of Tacoma a long time ago.

My mother loved genealogy and used to tell me so many stories. Sadly I didn't understand the depth of what it all meant and wish she were here other than in spirit in my journey.

She and my younger sister didn't have access to all the online records available today so she wrote letters and spent countless hours in libraries and writing letters to retrieve documents. Thankfully my younger sister understood the value of their hard work and had the space to store all of it. I continue the journey with love and passion.

Find A Grave is an invaluable tool in my journey and have become more involved mostly working my local cemetery and looking for ancestors.

Those who know me do not understand the passion all of us have for what they call are 'dead people.' They think it's morbid and think ghosts; I think of love and connections and never forgetting the contributions they made, good or bad.

Please feel free to request a transfer of memorials. If I am not related to the person the only interest I had was making sure they are not forgotten or lost.

I am working a project with a group of woman to ensure every grave at our cemetery is listed and photographed.

There are times I run across brand new headstones and photograph them and usually create a memorial. This can be very upsetting to the loved ones who either wanted to create one or have stumbled upon the one I created. We understand it is a shock to see the memorial is already created. Know that it was created out of love. I do it because I do not want anyone to forget your person. Know that most people do not know all these memorials exist or didn't know they can set up a free account.

Please - if you are related or want to manage it for the family I will transfer it to you. The only reason I won't transfer is if they are my family - even still we can negotiate that!

I apologize the amount of edits I request. Most of these memorials are unmarked (no headstone). I am using a variety of cemetery and/or online records to add dates and grave locations so the grave/person can be located and headstones photographed.

Please research the burial location. My main focus in Mountain View in Auburn, Washington. In 2022 and 2023 we have:
- entered 3,000 memorials
- researched 2,300 memorials, and
- Added plot numbers to about 1,200 memorials
- Merged duplicates
- Change burial location to the correct cemetery
- There are 80 records still to be resolved

Here are a few links to help locate your loved one.
- https://www.auburnwa.gov/city_hall/mountain_view_cemetery
- https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Home

Remember Find A Grave is an invaluable tool for genealogy research. But we are all volunteers. While striving for accuracy we do make mistakes. We know though, to use more than one source for proof. Find A Grave is not a family tree. There are free and inexpensive websites for this purpose. Find A Grave serves two purposes - memorializing a person's life and documenting their final disposition. It's important to create the memorial in the correct cemetery.

Please do some research - not everybody is in a cemetery. Not everybody is buried in the town they live in.

Lastly - There is Mountain View in Auburn, King County, Washington. If the death certificate says Mountain View, Tacoma. It is Mountain View Memorial Park in Lakewood, Pierce County, Washington. Lakewood was part of Tacoma a long time ago.