Find a Grave
October 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pm (Articles)
Why would anyone want “Find a Grave stickers”?
I know, it sounds weird. There is a site I read about called “Find a Grave”. Slap one on your car’s bumper to identify yourself as a “graver” when you drive through cemeteries. Put one on your laptop. Hang one on your wall at work and let your co-workers wonder about you. Get creative! Email a photo of your sticker in action to info@findagrave.com and they will add it to our online sticker scrapbook.
Jim Tipton created the Find A Grave website in 1995 because he could not find an existing site that catered to his hobby of visiting the graves of famous people. He found that there are many thousands of folks around the world who share his interests. What began as an odd hobby became a livelihood and a passion. Building and seeing Find a Grave grow beyond his wildest expectations has been immensely satisfying for Jim. Every day, contributors from around the world enter new records, thousands use the site as an educational reference tool, long-lost loved ones are located and millions of lives are fondly remembered.
To see the current online photo album of Find a Grave stickers, go to:
http://www.findagrave.com/
Find A Grave Stickers
P. O. Box 522107
Salt Lake City, Utah 84152-2107
Check out the site. I think it is a great idea. Genealogists are great for sharing anyway. This is just one more way to help some else down the road.
As I was viewing the “Find a Grave” site, I ran across the picture of Jim Bridger’s grave marker.
Judi Wollenziehn said,
October 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I was so surprised to see the picture I’d taken of Jim Bridger’s grave at findagrave.com! Thanks for your kind words about the website’s goal of helping researchers find their ancestors. My history club students work on the site (see p. 10 at http://www.bishopmiege.com/s/100/images/editor_documents/publications/summer08MM.pdf)
I should mention that Bridger’s gravesite is actually in Independence, Missouri. He loved the West and would probably have preferred it be his final resting place but he died on a farm in south Kansas City (where my home is built today).
We travel out to Wyoming every summer to enjoy the scenery he loved so well. When he was old and losing his vision, he would always say: “If I could just go out West one more time…a man can see so much further there.”
Best wishes,
Judi