I am honored to receive the Kreativ Blogger Award
I have been honored with the Kreativ Blogger Award, by Deez from Cemetery Explorers! Thank you so much Deez. I really enjoy what I do here and wish I was able to spend more time with it. I also appreciate you letting me add to you wonderful sight. I love what you are doing over at Cemetery Explorers.  As a rule of receiving this award I’m required to list 7 things about m

Tombstone Tuesday – John and Nettie Richmond
© Copyright 2009 Terri O’Connell My son and I recently took a trip East to look at colleges. On our way home we stopped in Beckley, WV to visit a few cemeteries and to show him where his Grandma was born. We only had a short period of time to visit, but we made the most of it. I believe we saw about 4 cemeteries that day. My son got to stand at the grave of his 6th, 4th and 3rd Great Grandparents. It is all in a days work. I am grateful to Bob, who

Wordless Wednesday – Richmond Homestead
Home of John and Nettie Richmond, Stanaford, Raleigh Co, WV ©2009 Terri O’Connell

Tombstone Tuesday – S Martha Warden
©2009 Terri O’Connell S. Martha Warden is the wife of Thomas. Thomas Warden’s headstone was posted in for my last Tombstone Tuesday. Both are buried in the Warden Family Cemetery in Raleigh County, WV. Many of their descendants still live in Raleigh County today. 

To pay, or not to pay
Over the past few days I have been looking through Ancestry. com’s service of Expert Connect. Where someone can hire an “expert” to help them with their research. I am all for them having professionals who are looking to find clients to assist. I mean it is only to make it easier for those of us researching our families. I myself would be inclined to ask for a bit of help here and there. But, what has me questioning this service is some of the pricing they are asking for. For instance,  to have someone take a photo of a gravestone could cost you anywhere from $5 to $709. (The $709 will allow this group of experts to travel 999 miles to take this picture.)