Appreciation to Professional Members:
Firstly, I extend heartfelt gratitude to all volunteers and genealogists at Find a Grave, particularly those dedicated to fieldwork and documentation. Your effort, especially in documenting graves unrelated to you, is truly commendable.

My goal is to locate the final disposition of my ancestors, descendants, and collateral relations, create or link as many as possible, and ensure their bio honors their memory and family history. They are not static but actively maintained in alignment with my work to continue to refine, edit, and update as my lifelong work continues.

To this end, edits for certain profiles I do not own in some cases is insufficient for my purpose. I may ask for grace from you to request management of selected profiles, irrespective of transfer rules. I have low profile counts for a reason. Rest assured, I NEVER request all profiles. If one or two are transferred to me, it would be part of my original request, or it may later be happenstance. Either I created the profiles I managed or requested for the purposes to maintain them as a lifelong commitment, and share my knowledge for descendants and close family and to honor my ancestors.

Transfers I have Requested:
I appreciate the true professionals who have transferred the handful of profiles I requested; you have made this community better by making other members feel welcomed, entrusted, and that I can share my work and honor their memories, which I will only do if I manage the profile. Keep in mind, that a transfer request is not an edit request.

I will follow any individual who transfers profiles I asked for, credit you, and know you will always be shown as the original creator automatically at the bottom of the profile. You will have my utmost and heartfelt appreciation and respect. Realize they are in good hands with someone who deeply cares.

Special thanks to Tom Hartman, who transferred on a few of my relatives before he passed, but then a bunch of unrelated people jumped in to grab profiles. I look to you guys to share your knowledge and expertise.

Requesting Transfers is Not My Primary Goal:
My goal is to use this platform as a central location to convey what I have learned about my ancestors over the past two and a half decades of dedicated work, their descendants, and some collateral relations where I have information to share and need to manage and have continual access. I will NOT proxy my work and constantly requesting edits through someone, especially when not related. Rushing out to quickly copy and paste information from sites is not an answer. In a number of lines I am the originator of such information in quite a number of cases.

If I see profiles for which I have a very strong calling to manage, In some cases, some descendants or even collateral relations know that it is not an arbitrary request to you and there is a real need. Otherwise, we know what the Edit feature does, and I know how to use it, which a transfer request is not an edit request.

Profiles that have just been sitting for years, in a few cases more than a decade, like an empty profile card of my ancestor sitting in a shoe box to collect, then you are not spending every waking moment on my personal family history and stories, as I am, I recommend if you will consider my request.

Responsiveness of Communication to You:
First, know that between 2019-2023, I have 23 inbox and 24 outbox messages total. If I reach out to you, there is a credible need or calling for me to do something.

If I do not hear from you, I understand you are busy, just as I am! I will check in occasionally in case you missed my request. In some cases, it might be after six months or annually. If you received a duplicate request from me at some point, it is because you have not responded. If you do not respond at all, I can't read minds.

If there are ways I can help you in supporting the transfer, especially if the profile involves my close or personal ancestors or descendants (irrespective of the number of generations), please let me know.

Approach to Requesting Transfers:
My approach to requesting transfers is selective and purposeful, aimed at maintaining profiles long term where I can best honor and preserve their memory and have personal knowledge and history (considerable time and expense over the years) that I know I can only originate their history, or know for a fact I have done the most extensive research, and need to constant access to continually go back and forth over time to create and continually refine the bio and history, and is a personal lifelong commitment for me.

A transfer request from me means I considered all factors for that need, so respectfully, the response should not be to submit edits which is counter to the request. If I needed edits, I would have submitted that type of request, right?

Cause for Transfer Requests from Me:
When I see close family or direct ancestors, in a few cases, descendant or collateral relations where I have the best information to honor their memory and to manage them, or I observe my ancestors being traded multiple times to individuals who don't spend every waking hour thinking about my ancestors and their memory, and no actual work is done to care for their rich history, which I have to offer, I may step in to ask to manage out of respect for them, and in some cases, I feel like I am being compelled to do so.

If I requested a transfer; please consider not going out and copying/pasting information from other platforms as "research." Instead, consider transferring, as I already have done extensive proper ancestry work for my ancestors in most cases for years or have inherited family information. Again I am best suited to manage my own genealogical research to share, or, in some cases, their close descendants (irrespective of transfer rules), and especially if you aren't related (having similar surnames is not related and most cases meaningless genealogically speaking). I will continue to research and update the profiles I manage as a lifelong commitment.

In a number of cases, I may have put out limited information for what you see across multiple platforms, which could be intentionally limited, given those platforms are community-managed, where I have limited ability to control the information, but doesn't remove my copyright, and we must remain professionals. This platform is different and becomes critical for me to manage that I may share, otherwise I will not give up my work. Therefore, where there is a calling, I feel best suited to manage, this platform becomes vital for that purpose to present true biographic and genealogy information.

Findagrave affirms profiles are not intended to be static as a basis for considering transferring to those like me who care, spend all their time focusing on them, and have the most information. You also help a sense of Community and create the next generation of members to try to achieve what you have.

Upkeep of Profiles I Manage:
I have a small number of profiles for a reason, and I am working on each and every one of them and updating them daily. I will cycle through each, but there is prioritization, especially if I am performing deep research and need to make continual updates over time on key profiles bio information. Updates will occur at a frequency over time and not just one-time updates. Some of my ancestor's bios are very complex due to erroneous and false genealogies, which have no place here and, thus, may require extensive work and continual access to certain profiles.

Edits Submitted To Me: I will review them promptly. However, follow the rules. Allow me time, one, to even see your request before communicating, and two, to research to ensure the information requested matches my data. Further, follow the rules regarding any rejected edits.

Edits From Me: I do submit edits, especially if related or unrelated, I will simply submit edits to complete work I feel necessary to improve the bio. For general edits I submit, I may add my profile and ID and type of updates to the bio for credit where there is a significant profile change or relationship to me. These instances are not cases where I request transfer, which is why you are getting the edits, right?

Copyright:
The rules on this platform and others are clear for copyright ownership. I honor my ancestors by sharing information from my family knowledge and offline research, connecting children of ancestors and their stories for descendants of my ancestors while protecting my copyrights. This doesn't mean any rights to scrape the profile of content I have created without permission. This includes any photos you have added. Yes it is out there to share, by profiles I manage the information may change or the way I want to refine or present it until perfected, or if I have new information.

Transfer Refusals:
You may have your reasons, but please be professional and honest, not spin false narratives. In a lot of cases I monitor memorials and it gets to the point where my ancestor is not being honored, just collected and traded. I recommend if you are replacing what my intent is for my ancestors, then please dedicate all your time and efforts to my ancestors using Genealogical Proof Standards to bring their story to live, not just copy paste information, because that is what I am doing for the duration of my life until I can get to the publication point, not copying internet trees.

Transfers requested of me:
If there are direct ancestor profiles I manage or create, I will retain management. This is because I feel best suited to manage them over the long term and will accept edits. It may be that I have done extensive genealogical work at considerable time and expense, whether completed or ongoing.
-Direct ancestors I actively manage, I will retain as I am already in management of them.
- If you descend from a child of our shared ancestors, I will evaluate the decision based on transfer rules, including if I have done extensive work and/or if the profile is closest to me within the rules.
- If the request is outside the transfer rules for a child of our shared ancestor or their descendants, I will evaluate your intent and what you have to offer. If I put in extensive research, it may be best that I retain management if it is determined you are best suited. Certainly, I will transfer. However, If a false genealogy is identified, I will retain management.
- I typically have no qualms about transferring non-common ancestor profiles closest to you (within the transfer rules), as you may be best suited to manage them.
- Profiles that are incidental relations (descendant spouses), I will evaluate the request and your relation on a case-by-case basis.
- Profiles I manage that are unrelated to me; if the profile is your direct relation within the transfer rules, I have no problem transferring them. You must provide me with a basis for your relationship, as I am a very good researcher and genealogist.

Assumptions:
Please do not make assumptions about me or my motives, especially if I am reaching out (irrespective of transfer rules). As of the beginning of 2024, I have 24 total outbound messages, most of which are past responses to inbound genealogy in this profile's lifetime.

If you hold one of my ancestor's profiles whether they are or are not related to you, I am not trying to "get them from you." I am trying to connect to my ancestors and share their stories (for descendants on my line). Find A Grave becomes crucial I maintain access to manage and continue to refine certain profiles I am curating the ancestry for year after year. This is the one place to get it right, and little edits are not always the answer, or giving up all my work, as I know it is easily taken and I am not credited.

Don't assume I didn't know where all my ancestors were or didn't care to create a profile before you. Refer to my message to you at the beginning of this bio. Otherwise, I wouldn't be asking for a transfer, right? It means I deeply care to ask for management and respect your work.

If there is a misunderstanding in communication, it is just that. Please be respectful of my communication because that is my intent when I reach out to you.

False Narratives to Avoid Transfers:
As a genealogist for my family's lines over the past 25 years, researching daily and weekends, sometimes till 1-2 AM, including genetic genealogy, I have done extensive research, including new ancestry discoveries in my lines through Genealogical Proof Standards, and accounted for thousands of DNA cousins within 6 generations to include their known position within my 220k tree database, or can quickly find out.

Members are here for various purposes. I dedicate a considerable amount of time to genealogy and DNA triangulation, and I am shifting focus to this platform's profile management. I am profoundly appreciative of those who can reach places, the hidden places, and your expertise to locate previously unknown final dispositions. I am not new to this platform and have been on it for a very long time. I am remiss that it wasn't my focus years ago, but those efforts were spent in deep genealogy. As a young distant cousin new to genealogy just told me regarding our shared family line, "You are doing very important work." This work is not for me, it is for the many generations that follow. You blocking my work and me blocking your work, does nobody any good. A reminder to us all to be humble.

Finally, the selfless act of transferring management for the handfuls of profiles I have requested, you have my respect for your work and as a human.

Appreciation to Professional Members:
Firstly, I extend heartfelt gratitude to all volunteers and genealogists at Find a Grave, particularly those dedicated to fieldwork and documentation. Your effort, especially in documenting graves unrelated to you, is truly commendable.

My goal is to locate the final disposition of my ancestors, descendants, and collateral relations, create or link as many as possible, and ensure their bio honors their memory and family history. They are not static but actively maintained in alignment with my work to continue to refine, edit, and update as my lifelong work continues.

To this end, edits for certain profiles I do not own in some cases is insufficient for my purpose. I may ask for grace from you to request management of selected profiles, irrespective of transfer rules. I have low profile counts for a reason. Rest assured, I NEVER request all profiles. If one or two are transferred to me, it would be part of my original request, or it may later be happenstance. Either I created the profiles I managed or requested for the purposes to maintain them as a lifelong commitment, and share my knowledge for descendants and close family and to honor my ancestors.

Transfers I have Requested:
I appreciate the true professionals who have transferred the handful of profiles I requested; you have made this community better by making other members feel welcomed, entrusted, and that I can share my work and honor their memories, which I will only do if I manage the profile. Keep in mind, that a transfer request is not an edit request.

I will follow any individual who transfers profiles I asked for, credit you, and know you will always be shown as the original creator automatically at the bottom of the profile. You will have my utmost and heartfelt appreciation and respect. Realize they are in good hands with someone who deeply cares.

Special thanks to Tom Hartman, who transferred on a few of my relatives before he passed, but then a bunch of unrelated people jumped in to grab profiles. I look to you guys to share your knowledge and expertise.

Requesting Transfers is Not My Primary Goal:
My goal is to use this platform as a central location to convey what I have learned about my ancestors over the past two and a half decades of dedicated work, their descendants, and some collateral relations where I have information to share and need to manage and have continual access. I will NOT proxy my work and constantly requesting edits through someone, especially when not related. Rushing out to quickly copy and paste information from sites is not an answer. In a number of lines I am the originator of such information in quite a number of cases.

If I see profiles for which I have a very strong calling to manage, In some cases, some descendants or even collateral relations know that it is not an arbitrary request to you and there is a real need. Otherwise, we know what the Edit feature does, and I know how to use it, which a transfer request is not an edit request.

Profiles that have just been sitting for years, in a few cases more than a decade, like an empty profile card of my ancestor sitting in a shoe box to collect, then you are not spending every waking moment on my personal family history and stories, as I am, I recommend if you will consider my request.

Responsiveness of Communication to You:
First, know that between 2019-2023, I have 23 inbox and 24 outbox messages total. If I reach out to you, there is a credible need or calling for me to do something.

If I do not hear from you, I understand you are busy, just as I am! I will check in occasionally in case you missed my request. In some cases, it might be after six months or annually. If you received a duplicate request from me at some point, it is because you have not responded. If you do not respond at all, I can't read minds.

If there are ways I can help you in supporting the transfer, especially if the profile involves my close or personal ancestors or descendants (irrespective of the number of generations), please let me know.

Approach to Requesting Transfers:
My approach to requesting transfers is selective and purposeful, aimed at maintaining profiles long term where I can best honor and preserve their memory and have personal knowledge and history (considerable time and expense over the years) that I know I can only originate their history, or know for a fact I have done the most extensive research, and need to constant access to continually go back and forth over time to create and continually refine the bio and history, and is a personal lifelong commitment for me.

A transfer request from me means I considered all factors for that need, so respectfully, the response should not be to submit edits which is counter to the request. If I needed edits, I would have submitted that type of request, right?

Cause for Transfer Requests from Me:
When I see close family or direct ancestors, in a few cases, descendant or collateral relations where I have the best information to honor their memory and to manage them, or I observe my ancestors being traded multiple times to individuals who don't spend every waking hour thinking about my ancestors and their memory, and no actual work is done to care for their rich history, which I have to offer, I may step in to ask to manage out of respect for them, and in some cases, I feel like I am being compelled to do so.

If I requested a transfer; please consider not going out and copying/pasting information from other platforms as "research." Instead, consider transferring, as I already have done extensive proper ancestry work for my ancestors in most cases for years or have inherited family information. Again I am best suited to manage my own genealogical research to share, or, in some cases, their close descendants (irrespective of transfer rules), and especially if you aren't related (having similar surnames is not related and most cases meaningless genealogically speaking). I will continue to research and update the profiles I manage as a lifelong commitment.

In a number of cases, I may have put out limited information for what you see across multiple platforms, which could be intentionally limited, given those platforms are community-managed, where I have limited ability to control the information, but doesn't remove my copyright, and we must remain professionals. This platform is different and becomes critical for me to manage that I may share, otherwise I will not give up my work. Therefore, where there is a calling, I feel best suited to manage, this platform becomes vital for that purpose to present true biographic and genealogy information.

Findagrave affirms profiles are not intended to be static as a basis for considering transferring to those like me who care, spend all their time focusing on them, and have the most information. You also help a sense of Community and create the next generation of members to try to achieve what you have.

Upkeep of Profiles I Manage:
I have a small number of profiles for a reason, and I am working on each and every one of them and updating them daily. I will cycle through each, but there is prioritization, especially if I am performing deep research and need to make continual updates over time on key profiles bio information. Updates will occur at a frequency over time and not just one-time updates. Some of my ancestor's bios are very complex due to erroneous and false genealogies, which have no place here and, thus, may require extensive work and continual access to certain profiles.

Edits Submitted To Me: I will review them promptly. However, follow the rules. Allow me time, one, to even see your request before communicating, and two, to research to ensure the information requested matches my data. Further, follow the rules regarding any rejected edits.

Edits From Me: I do submit edits, especially if related or unrelated, I will simply submit edits to complete work I feel necessary to improve the bio. For general edits I submit, I may add my profile and ID and type of updates to the bio for credit where there is a significant profile change or relationship to me. These instances are not cases where I request transfer, which is why you are getting the edits, right?

Copyright:
The rules on this platform and others are clear for copyright ownership. I honor my ancestors by sharing information from my family knowledge and offline research, connecting children of ancestors and their stories for descendants of my ancestors while protecting my copyrights. This doesn't mean any rights to scrape the profile of content I have created without permission. This includes any photos you have added. Yes it is out there to share, by profiles I manage the information may change or the way I want to refine or present it until perfected, or if I have new information.

Transfer Refusals:
You may have your reasons, but please be professional and honest, not spin false narratives. In a lot of cases I monitor memorials and it gets to the point where my ancestor is not being honored, just collected and traded. I recommend if you are replacing what my intent is for my ancestors, then please dedicate all your time and efforts to my ancestors using Genealogical Proof Standards to bring their story to live, not just copy paste information, because that is what I am doing for the duration of my life until I can get to the publication point, not copying internet trees.

Transfers requested of me:
If there are direct ancestor profiles I manage or create, I will retain management. This is because I feel best suited to manage them over the long term and will accept edits. It may be that I have done extensive genealogical work at considerable time and expense, whether completed or ongoing.
-Direct ancestors I actively manage, I will retain as I am already in management of them.
- If you descend from a child of our shared ancestors, I will evaluate the decision based on transfer rules, including if I have done extensive work and/or if the profile is closest to me within the rules.
- If the request is outside the transfer rules for a child of our shared ancestor or their descendants, I will evaluate your intent and what you have to offer. If I put in extensive research, it may be best that I retain management if it is determined you are best suited. Certainly, I will transfer. However, If a false genealogy is identified, I will retain management.
- I typically have no qualms about transferring non-common ancestor profiles closest to you (within the transfer rules), as you may be best suited to manage them.
- Profiles that are incidental relations (descendant spouses), I will evaluate the request and your relation on a case-by-case basis.
- Profiles I manage that are unrelated to me; if the profile is your direct relation within the transfer rules, I have no problem transferring them. You must provide me with a basis for your relationship, as I am a very good researcher and genealogist.

Assumptions:
Please do not make assumptions about me or my motives, especially if I am reaching out (irrespective of transfer rules). As of the beginning of 2024, I have 24 total outbound messages, most of which are past responses to inbound genealogy in this profile's lifetime.

If you hold one of my ancestor's profiles whether they are or are not related to you, I am not trying to "get them from you." I am trying to connect to my ancestors and share their stories (for descendants on my line). Find A Grave becomes crucial I maintain access to manage and continue to refine certain profiles I am curating the ancestry for year after year. This is the one place to get it right, and little edits are not always the answer, or giving up all my work, as I know it is easily taken and I am not credited.

Don't assume I didn't know where all my ancestors were or didn't care to create a profile before you. Refer to my message to you at the beginning of this bio. Otherwise, I wouldn't be asking for a transfer, right? It means I deeply care to ask for management and respect your work.

If there is a misunderstanding in communication, it is just that. Please be respectful of my communication because that is my intent when I reach out to you.

False Narratives to Avoid Transfers:
As a genealogist for my family's lines over the past 25 years, researching daily and weekends, sometimes till 1-2 AM, including genetic genealogy, I have done extensive research, including new ancestry discoveries in my lines through Genealogical Proof Standards, and accounted for thousands of DNA cousins within 6 generations to include their known position within my 220k tree database, or can quickly find out.

Members are here for various purposes. I dedicate a considerable amount of time to genealogy and DNA triangulation, and I am shifting focus to this platform's profile management. I am profoundly appreciative of those who can reach places, the hidden places, and your expertise to locate previously unknown final dispositions. I am not new to this platform and have been on it for a very long time. I am remiss that it wasn't my focus years ago, but those efforts were spent in deep genealogy. As a young distant cousin new to genealogy just told me regarding our shared family line, "You are doing very important work." This work is not for me, it is for the many generations that follow. You blocking my work and me blocking your work, does nobody any good. A reminder to us all to be humble.

Finally, the selfless act of transferring management for the handfuls of profiles I have requested, you have my respect for your work and as a human.