20 years a researcher - skill level above average.

That is my Great Great Grandmother's repaired Headstone in the profile pic. She was revered back in the day and she is revered now. Her Headstone had broken into two pieces about 100 years ago, we think. I do Monument Restoration in GA/AL feel free to contact me here on Findagrave ....

Solving mysteries is the fun part of Genealogy.

Findagrave has gotten a lot better recently. I believe it will be as important as Ancestry.com some day, especially to novice researchers - beginners who do not have the time, inclination or do not want to spend money on an Ancestry.com membership.

Posting pictures and obits here on Findagrave makes the site much more important and fun for researchers, and more importantly, it honors the people in those graves by telling their stories in a much more complete way than simply posting a photo of the grave.

I have a public Ancestry.com tree that anyone can access. This tree has many of the same photos I have posted here on Findagrave, but also many more. The first 5-6 generations of my Ancestry.com tree are rock solid and in some cases back 7-8 generations are rock solid.

Additionally, I am a content contributor to an excellent new book, 'Arcadia Revisted' by the very talented Doug Flowers. I encourage everyone researching Collins and allied families of metropolitan Augusta, Ga to get a copy of this 600 page Magnum Opus. (The earliest Collins ancestor that I can prove 100% is Leven Collins (1748-1806) who died in Augusta, Ga.)

The rest of the tree is the opposite of rock solid because that is the nature of Genealogy - going that far back in time and proving things is impossible - but it is food for thought.

In the very early generations, I simply merged info from other researchers in the hope of starting discussions and finding new avenues of research to hopefully help future researchers.

20 years a researcher - skill level above average.

That is my Great Great Grandmother's repaired Headstone in the profile pic. She was revered back in the day and she is revered now. Her Headstone had broken into two pieces about 100 years ago, we think. I do Monument Restoration in GA/AL feel free to contact me here on Findagrave ....

Solving mysteries is the fun part of Genealogy.

Findagrave has gotten a lot better recently. I believe it will be as important as Ancestry.com some day, especially to novice researchers - beginners who do not have the time, inclination or do not want to spend money on an Ancestry.com membership.

Posting pictures and obits here on Findagrave makes the site much more important and fun for researchers, and more importantly, it honors the people in those graves by telling their stories in a much more complete way than simply posting a photo of the grave.

I have a public Ancestry.com tree that anyone can access. This tree has many of the same photos I have posted here on Findagrave, but also many more. The first 5-6 generations of my Ancestry.com tree are rock solid and in some cases back 7-8 generations are rock solid.

Additionally, I am a content contributor to an excellent new book, 'Arcadia Revisted' by the very talented Doug Flowers. I encourage everyone researching Collins and allied families of metropolitan Augusta, Ga to get a copy of this 600 page Magnum Opus. (The earliest Collins ancestor that I can prove 100% is Leven Collins (1748-1806) who died in Augusta, Ga.)

The rest of the tree is the opposite of rock solid because that is the nature of Genealogy - going that far back in time and proving things is impossible - but it is food for thought.

In the very early generations, I simply merged info from other researchers in the hope of starting discussions and finding new avenues of research to hopefully help future researchers.