I have taken a lot of gravestone photos in some of the cemeteries that are close to where I live in the city of Troy, NY. I'm hoping it might help others out with locating their long lost family members. My favorite would definitely have to be the New Mount Ida Cemetery. We have done so much volunteer work back there over the last ten years. It has been amazing seeing this forgotten and overgrown cemetery be transformed into a place that is now walked in and visited by so many daily.

**Please send me edits for any information you want updated or added on to a memorial. It also helps if you add notes if the information you send does not match what is on the gravestone.

** Per Find a Grave: memorials are transferred for relatives with these close relationships: child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships. Please contact me if you are requesting a memorial to be transferred to you, also please state your relationship, otherwise it will be ignored.

Another favorite cemetery of mine would have to be the Coleman's Station Cemetery, a small family burying ground located on my Grandparents farm. As I kid I loved playing around in there, hiding around the gravestones, trying to find ghosts (I never did). But as I got older, I really came to appreciate the history of the people that were buried there. I realized how important it was to preserve these stones that were slowly falling apart. This was the first cemetery I photographed for Find a Grave and I know it definitely started this wonderful hobby of mine.

I have taken a lot of gravestone photos in some of the cemeteries that are close to where I live in the city of Troy, NY. I'm hoping it might help others out with locating their long lost family members. My favorite would definitely have to be the New Mount Ida Cemetery. We have done so much volunteer work back there over the last ten years. It has been amazing seeing this forgotten and overgrown cemetery be transformed into a place that is now walked in and visited by so many daily.

**Please send me edits for any information you want updated or added on to a memorial. It also helps if you add notes if the information you send does not match what is on the gravestone.

** Per Find a Grave: memorials are transferred for relatives with these close relationships: child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships. Please contact me if you are requesting a memorial to be transferred to you, also please state your relationship, otherwise it will be ignored.

Another favorite cemetery of mine would have to be the Coleman's Station Cemetery, a small family burying ground located on my Grandparents farm. As I kid I loved playing around in there, hiding around the gravestones, trying to find ghosts (I never did). But as I got older, I really came to appreciate the history of the people that were buried there. I realized how important it was to preserve these stones that were slowly falling apart. This was the first cemetery I photographed for Find a Grave and I know it definitely started this wonderful hobby of mine.