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"If a manager is not related, we encourage allowing family members to manage memorials."
https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Management-Questions
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"Our first preference would be for the manager to be a relative"
https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Who-manages-memorials
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"Genealogy rights the injustice of oblivion."
- Douglas Hunter Stevenson

I am commited to visiting each of the memorials that I manage at least once a year. I utilize my genealogy application, Reunion for Macintosh, to remind me of each person's birthday and then refresh the flower I've left at the memorial and look to enhance the memorial.

If I leave the family tree "flower" (the same icon as my profile photo) on a memorial that indicates that the deceased is a relative.

Family is Family. Aunts, uncles, great aunts, great uncles, cousins, cousins, and more cousins. I don't care as to how Find A Grave defines who my "close" relatives are. I love my second cousins as much as I love my first cousins. I communicate with dozens of cousins each month.

And I have plenty of DNA cousins. We may not know what our exact relation is but we are family. Blood relatives. We're working on finding out how we are cousins. I work on extending those branches and the related memorials just the same as I do my direct ancestors.

I am my family's historian, the "go to" person for my cousins. I am very active in maintaining and enhancing my family's Find A Grave memorials. I have cousins and in-laws that rely on me to manage their trees, DNA kits and Find A Grave interests.

My genealogy work is centralized in my Reunion for Macintosh database. In that database I have dedicated fields with URLs linked to:
my Ancestry Tree
my Ancestry DNA Matches
the FamilySearch Tree
Find A Grave memorials
New York City Municipal Archives Historical Vital Records
Portale Antenati

Going forward I will include New York City Municipal Archives, Antenati and FamilySearch URLs in the bios of the memorials that I manage.

My current data harvesting project is extracting birth, marriage and death records of Ottati, Province of Salerno, Italy. Surnames that I am related to include: Aquaro/Aquara, Bamonte, Beatrice, Beneventano, Doddato, Gatti, Grieco, Guadagno, Laurino, Manzo, Marino, Monaco, Passaro, Piecoro/Piecora/Pecoro, Pugliese, Ricco, Sabini, Sacco and Vessa. Ottati cousins: please contact me!

I have maintained, for decades now, a database on BAMONTEs originating from the comunes around the Alburni mountains. If your BAMONTE family members originated from Ottati or Brooklyn or Pennsylvania then you are most likely my cousin.

I also maintain a database of Castelpoto, Province of Benevento, BMD records. Surnames that I am related to include: Ciotti, Conte, d'Agostino, Della Pietra, di Gioia, Fusco, Guerriero, Mastrocinque, Miraglia, Panella, Tesauro, Tiso, Velardo, Vetrone and Visconte. Castelpoto cousins: please contact me!

I am of Scottish, English, Irish and Italian ancestry.

Scottish family names include: Adamson, Anderson, Barber, Birnie, Cameron, Christie, Cosgrove, Forbes, Gordon, Gowans, Gray, Handy, Hunter, Law, Low, Lumsden, Lyon, Mackie, Maders, Main, Masson, Maxwell, Morrice, Ogilvie, Patterson, Perrie, Philip, Robertson, Scott, Sim, Skinner, Smith, Stevenson, Strachan and Urquhart.

Irish family names include: Handy, Flynn and Kelly and a handful of Egan cousins. The Handy's originate from Kilbeggan, County Westmeath then on to Dundee, Scotland and then on to Australia and New York City.

I have taken both Ancestry Autosomal and Paternal Lineage (Y-46) DNA tests. I have also done the FamilyTreeDNA Big Y-700 test. My Y DNA results indicate that my paternal surname must have changed from CAMERON to HUNTER at some point.

My Y-DNA Haplogroup is R-FT5737. I share common paternal lineage with Neil Armstrong, Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Patrick Henry and Tutankhamun.

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"The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them."
― Czeslaw Milosz, The Issa Valley

"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
― Terry Pratchett

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
- Thomas Campbell

"We all carry, inside us, people who came before us."
― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas

"Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear."
- Anonymous

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PS - Have You Made Provisions For Your Family History Records After Your Death? https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Genealogy_Codicil_for_Your_Last_Will_%26_Testament

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"If a manager is not related, we encourage allowing family members to manage memorials."
https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Management-Questions
=====
"Our first preference would be for the manager to be a relative"
https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Who-manages-memorials
=====

"Genealogy rights the injustice of oblivion."
- Douglas Hunter Stevenson

I am commited to visiting each of the memorials that I manage at least once a year. I utilize my genealogy application, Reunion for Macintosh, to remind me of each person's birthday and then refresh the flower I've left at the memorial and look to enhance the memorial.

If I leave the family tree "flower" (the same icon as my profile photo) on a memorial that indicates that the deceased is a relative.

Family is Family. Aunts, uncles, great aunts, great uncles, cousins, cousins, and more cousins. I don't care as to how Find A Grave defines who my "close" relatives are. I love my second cousins as much as I love my first cousins. I communicate with dozens of cousins each month.

And I have plenty of DNA cousins. We may not know what our exact relation is but we are family. Blood relatives. We're working on finding out how we are cousins. I work on extending those branches and the related memorials just the same as I do my direct ancestors.

I am my family's historian, the "go to" person for my cousins. I am very active in maintaining and enhancing my family's Find A Grave memorials. I have cousins and in-laws that rely on me to manage their trees, DNA kits and Find A Grave interests.

My genealogy work is centralized in my Reunion for Macintosh database. In that database I have dedicated fields with URLs linked to:
my Ancestry Tree
my Ancestry DNA Matches
the FamilySearch Tree
Find A Grave memorials
New York City Municipal Archives Historical Vital Records
Portale Antenati

Going forward I will include New York City Municipal Archives, Antenati and FamilySearch URLs in the bios of the memorials that I manage.

My current data harvesting project is extracting birth, marriage and death records of Ottati, Province of Salerno, Italy. Surnames that I am related to include: Aquaro/Aquara, Bamonte, Beatrice, Beneventano, Doddato, Gatti, Grieco, Guadagno, Laurino, Manzo, Marino, Monaco, Passaro, Piecoro/Piecora/Pecoro, Pugliese, Ricco, Sabini, Sacco and Vessa. Ottati cousins: please contact me!

I have maintained, for decades now, a database on BAMONTEs originating from the comunes around the Alburni mountains. If your BAMONTE family members originated from Ottati or Brooklyn or Pennsylvania then you are most likely my cousin.

I also maintain a database of Castelpoto, Province of Benevento, BMD records. Surnames that I am related to include: Ciotti, Conte, d'Agostino, Della Pietra, di Gioia, Fusco, Guerriero, Mastrocinque, Miraglia, Panella, Tesauro, Tiso, Velardo, Vetrone and Visconte. Castelpoto cousins: please contact me!

I am of Scottish, English, Irish and Italian ancestry.

Scottish family names include: Adamson, Anderson, Barber, Birnie, Cameron, Christie, Cosgrove, Forbes, Gordon, Gowans, Gray, Handy, Hunter, Law, Low, Lumsden, Lyon, Mackie, Maders, Main, Masson, Maxwell, Morrice, Ogilvie, Patterson, Perrie, Philip, Robertson, Scott, Sim, Skinner, Smith, Stevenson, Strachan and Urquhart.

Irish family names include: Handy, Flynn and Kelly and a handful of Egan cousins. The Handy's originate from Kilbeggan, County Westmeath then on to Dundee, Scotland and then on to Australia and New York City.

I have taken both Ancestry Autosomal and Paternal Lineage (Y-46) DNA tests. I have also done the FamilyTreeDNA Big Y-700 test. My Y DNA results indicate that my paternal surname must have changed from CAMERON to HUNTER at some point.

My Y-DNA Haplogroup is R-FT5737. I share common paternal lineage with Neil Armstrong, Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Patrick Henry and Tutankhamun.

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"The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them."
― Czeslaw Milosz, The Issa Valley

"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
― Terry Pratchett

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
- Thomas Campbell

"We all carry, inside us, people who came before us."
― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas

"Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear."
- Anonymous

=====

PS - Have You Made Provisions For Your Family History Records After Your Death? https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Genealogy_Codicil_for_Your_Last_Will_%26_Testament

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