Geiszler Genealogy

When I went to Ohio last week, I visited some cemeteries where I knew my family members were buried. While at most cemeteries, I took additional pictures in hopes that they were needed on Find-A-Grave.com . I've uploaded about 50 new photos to the website and added 14 names that were previously not in the database. That has been so exciting. Uriah Lytle (1864 - 1951) Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio Section 75 I took this photo because a blogger I follow is search Lytle's. I don't know if this person belongs in their family. However, it was fun to think he might be. Thus far, I've not been able to fulfill a 'Photo Request' with the photos I've uploaded. However, I have an additional 500+ photos to add to the website. They might not all be needed, per se. But if I've made even half of those additional photos available for a researcher, then I know the extra time was well spent. In the process, I'll be able to post my family member's g...

I've been blessed to take a journey to Columbus, Ohio. I visited the Green Lawn Cemetery, which proclaims to be the fifth largest cemetery in Ohio. It has perhaps 20,000 (or was is 200,000) people buried there. Thanks to Stacy Baliss who graciously gave up her time to search through the Green Lawn microfilms at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. She provided me with a list of 60 persons complete with their burial cards and their plot locations. I also received a section map to find each person in this massive cemetery. I blocked off the entire day to visit the cemetery to find these names and to snap other pictures. I took over 400 pictures of additional stone to see if they're needed on Find-A-Grave.com. Perhaps this is the wrong method of snapping photos at a cemetery; but I didn't have hours to devote to looking up names. I figured, if the pictures aren't needed, I still had practice documenting photos. The experience of finding ancestor headstones and documenting so...

Whew!!! I can't say how excited I am. Let's just say I should probably video tape this happy dance. Here's how it all started. My ancestor Leon Philip Smith was a bugger to figure out because his posterity only knew him as Philip Smith. Once I figured out he was LEON Philip Smith, I was able to connect him into a line that has had work done for generations prior to this one. His wife was only known as Katherine for the longest time. Philip was buried with his second wife Mary Smith in the Green Lawn Cemetery. But where was Katherine buried? I forgot the step that lead me to realize that Katherine's name was Catherine Dague. But, I figured it out. In any case, when I found Leon's parents buried in Smith Cemtery (aka Union Cemetery), a Catherine Smith wife of Philip Smith was buried on their plot!  Kenneth Gilbert's photo for the Find-A-Grave listing of Catherine Smith Okay, so I have confirmed (documentation not listed in this narrative confirms) my connection of...