Early in our virtual meeting experiences of 2020 we began attracting visitors from around Washington State as well as other parts of the United States.  Among our visitors was Ron Sailer, a neighbor from the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society in Lynnwood, just north of Seattle. Ron shared information that his great grandfather was buried in the pioneer cemetery here in Auburn and gave us information regarding research that had been done. http://www.auburnpioneercemetery.net/biographies/hopkins.php#.YA9Id-hKiUl .  In February, 2021, we did a blog about the research that had been done, quite extensively, and that more newspaper articles had become available thus showing the progress of research possibilities. https://skcgs.blogspot.com/2021/02/newspaper-research-progress.html A few months ago MaryLynn made contact with Ron again when she found a common link at WikiTree.  Small world! Valorie received The StillyGen newsletter [1] in early January 2023, and read with shock: ...

Collaboration and Cousin Bait Do you use Find a Grave in your genealogy research? I do, all the time! Right along with Ancestry, Google, Wikitree and FamilySearch. It shares with the most useful sites the power of collaboration and "cousin bait," which is advertising your name and contact information on profiles of relatives you share with your cousins, some of whom are researchers looking for you.  If you use Find a Grave only to find out the name of the cemetery in which your relative or ancestor is buried, you are missing out on much of the power of the site. And I'm not just talking about the clues such as date and place of birth, death, names of parents, spouse(s) and children. Before moving on think about who the  someone is who added information to the memorial. If it is not you, you can add information! And you can click over to their profile to find out which cousin is your benefactor. To make corrections or additions to a memorial click Suggest Edits as below: ...