Tombstone Tuesday Hunting For the Tombstones Of My Gallaher Family

Destination is La Crosse, Wisconsin and the Catholic Cemetery to hunt for the graves of my great great grandparents Patrick and Johanna ( Riordan) Gallaher.

Find a grave notes that there is over 1500 graves and only about 23 percent are photographed.

Among those not pictured is my Gallaher's.

Trip is planned for the summer , hopefully Thursday to take a short trip to La Crosse.

Goals are to find cemetery and graves. To take photos of the graves and post on ancestry and here.

Goal is to go to court house to see if I can get death certificates for both Patrick and Johanna.  I am hoping that I will find out who their parents are.

The Whispers Of My Ancestors In My Ears Anna Woodmansee Continues

While reading blogs tonight I found Angels in my Ear which was referred by Armchair Genealogists.
She has just started out writing her blog.  I look forward to continuing to read her writings. She talks about putting depth and more to our family history besides the dates we find.

I often sit and wonder about my ancestors. What was their lifes like, what were their dreams and hopes. How did they handle the saddness in their lives. At times I wish they would whisper in my ear. Tell me their secrets.

Today I shared the obituary of my great great grandmother Anna Woodmansee. The last part talked about her long suffering. It reads She has been a great sufferer for several years, but has bore her suffering with patience and christian fortitude. What is meant by that? Did she suffer from some disease, some unknown sadness to me. I wonder?

I did find this wonderful picture of one of her sons on ancestory tonight. This is George Everett Millsap and his family. I love ancestory and how their is sharing of family pictures for others to enjoy and put into their family research books. Pictured is six children, I found out that they had one more son who lived only about three years.

While searching swag found this site about abandoned cemeteries in Decatur where my ancestors lived. It mentions Millsaps. More research needs to be done here. Anna married Flavious Armenious Millsap.

Thanks for stopping by as I share my family members and what I am finding about these wonderful people who came before me. I want to learn more about all of them. Your friend in family research Grace

Cemetery Search and Ancestry.com

Here is an exciting addition to http://www.ancestry.com/ . A cemetery index . This addition is right up my alley. I love to visit cemeteries and I admire gravestones family or not. I have joined the grave rabbits group and post cemetery information in hope to help someone find their family http://wanderinggraveyardrabbit.blogspot.com/ . To search for cemetery information you can go http://www.findagrave.com/ . This is a great place to search for your ancestors and now we have a new place to search for final resting places.

The following is a post from Ancestry
Ancestry.com Cemetery Collection Free Through Nov. 5Posted by DianeThis just in: Ancestry.com is making its "creepiest collections"—records of cemeteries and gravestones free through next Thursday, Nov. 5. You will need to register for a free Ancestry.com account to view details of your search results. Use the search box on this Halloween landing page to access the free databases.Click here to see the list of cemetery indexes and inscriptions included in this offer.

Hope that you have a happy safe spooky Halloween ... Grace

A Historical Cemetery in Rosenberg Texas McNabb Family

I am not sure what there is about people who love to wander the cemetery and look at grave stones of people who are not their own family but I am one of them. I of course love finding my own family's gravestones, but they are scattered across the United States and Europe.

I found this wonderful old cemetery here in Texas thanks to my brother in law Larry. He loves history and old cemeteries like I do. Part of this wonderful old cemetery there are a great number of historical grave stones.

It was quiet and peaceful there. The sky was blue and it was hot - to hot to be there, but I still I wandered and took pictures for a bit.

I had posted awhile back about the top ten genealogy sites and http://www.findagrave.com/ was one of them.

This is a wonderful site where people just like me who love to wander cemeteries can post information and pictures about the gravestones of the famous and the non famous just for the historical or genealogy fact. I can sit here in my home and visit http://www.findagrave.com/ and see the grave stone of my great grandfather Adam Zion in Colorado and someone else can see the gravestones I am posting tonight and the next few evenings at that site.

Tonight I posted the tombstones of a family. I have not been able to find any information on them on the Internet yet but here is the information from their gravestones.

As you are facing the head stones on the left hand side is Johnnie McNabb who was born September 21 1902 and who died January 8 1944. My question is was Johnnie a female or a male? Did they name females Johnnie in 1902 after a father named John.

The middle tombstone is much larger and is that of Alexander D McNabb who was born May 4 1854 and who died February 20 1911. Printed also on his stone is "Women of the World Memorial. " Makes me wonder why this printed on a man's headstone. The tombstone on the right side of Alexander is Charlien Gloyd McNabb who was born September 27 1868 and died June 12 1929. This was probably his wife. I wonder if Gloyd a maiden name or middle name.

Find a Grave Web site From your Laptop

What a great site Find a Grave is .. found the grave stone of great great great grandfather McCormick Zion in Decatur, Iowa. Almost as great as seeing it in person. Will be putting it on my want to visit in person list.

Adam Zion was born January 22, 1795 North Fork Holston River Washington County Virginia and Died December 26, 1863 at the age of 67 years 11 months and 4 days.

Find a Grave Web site From your Laptop

Last night I posted some of the top web sites for genealogy. One of them was Find a Grave

I love to wander the cemetary. Quiet and so peaceful. Today I had dh stop at a cemetary in the Houston area. Will tell about that in another post. But tonight I wandered Craig Cemetary from my laptop.

Find a Grave is a simple-yet-powerful cemetery database has grown to more than 31 million grave transcriptions. You can search by name (with options for maiden names and partial surnames), birth date, death date or cemetery location, or browse a cemetery for people you think might be your ancestors. There's also a surname index and the Social Security Death Index.

Tonight I went to the site. Registered as a member, offered to take pictures of gravestones in my area. I then found that the pictures of my great grandmother Rachel and great grandfather Adam Zion plus there grave stone had been posted. I had seen these pictures before on the internet, but to night I was able to also get the name of the cemetary in a picture also. Before leaving I left viritual flowers for them. .

That is my grandfather Perry upper left hand corner.

Try to take some time to check out this web site. I am amazed. I will be taking some time to searching this site. I hope to be able to find graves of my ancestors that I have not seen yet.

Happy searching