What a wonderful site this is! Steve and I became contributors when I found that I had a lot of relatives buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Brook, Indiana, that did not have a Memorial.

My family has lived in this area since the 1850's ( seven generations) and Steve's family has lived in the Lafayette area for eight generations! When we would visit our relatives, we would also go to Riverside Cemetery to take pictures of the gravestones and add them to FAG. Unfortunately, some of the stones in the Old block can no longer be read.

PLEASE do not post anything in the photo area (like the picture of the death certificate or the obituary) but the pictures of gravestones or individuals. I will gladly type the obituary in the bio area. Please include the source of the obituary. I wish all contributors would allow the obituary to be entered. There is so much information in them that is so helpful.

Jeff Gonyea had on his profile the following and we couldn't have said it better:

"We don't "own" the memorials we manage - they are not ours. We may create them, we may update them, we may transfer them to others - we are but stewards. They are Find A Grave memorials of human beings, departed.

They are not "friends" on a social media network website to be collected like baseball trading cards. And there's no prize for the one who dies with the most.

The reward (for me) comes from maintaining the most accurate and dignified memorials I can. What we record becomes history, and a record in someone else's family tree. We have a responsibility to do a good job of it. It's a privilege and honor."

What a wonderful site this is! Steve and I became contributors when I found that I had a lot of relatives buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Brook, Indiana, that did not have a Memorial.

My family has lived in this area since the 1850's ( seven generations) and Steve's family has lived in the Lafayette area for eight generations! When we would visit our relatives, we would also go to Riverside Cemetery to take pictures of the gravestones and add them to FAG. Unfortunately, some of the stones in the Old block can no longer be read.

PLEASE do not post anything in the photo area (like the picture of the death certificate or the obituary) but the pictures of gravestones or individuals. I will gladly type the obituary in the bio area. Please include the source of the obituary. I wish all contributors would allow the obituary to be entered. There is so much information in them that is so helpful.

Jeff Gonyea had on his profile the following and we couldn't have said it better:

"We don't "own" the memorials we manage - they are not ours. We may create them, we may update them, we may transfer them to others - we are but stewards. They are Find A Grave memorials of human beings, departed.

They are not "friends" on a social media network website to be collected like baseball trading cards. And there's no prize for the one who dies with the most.

The reward (for me) comes from maintaining the most accurate and dignified memorials I can. What we record becomes history, and a record in someone else's family tree. We have a responsibility to do a good job of it. It's a privilege and honor."