Living in the country in Indiana, I loved that there was a small church and old cemetery next to our property. I was ecstatic when we moved to southern Georgia to find another country church and cemetery just across from our house.

To help myself become acquainted with the “neighbors,” I methodically made my way row by row through the cemetery double-checking that each gravestone had a picture on Find a Grave, and then mapping its GPS location within the app.

Over the course of the summer, I have finished the majority of the neighbor project. The cemetery is now 91% photographed and 85% with GPS.

The McNair twins were one of my most recent “fixes” at the cemetery. McNair was buried beneath the dirt, so I used my hand-dandy carving fork to dig away to find the surname.

There are quite a few gravestones that are so covered in moss, lichen, and dirt they are unreadable. I have started the process of cleaning them.

I highly encourage you family history lovers to help photograph and GPS mark your local cemeteries. It might help a fellow history seeker someday find their ancestors.