Thanks to other Researchers!

Last week, I had the chance to help another "newbie" find a cemetery site for a fellow veteran, who served with this young man in the Marines in Vietnam. Within 25 minutes, some Internet database research to find out who his parents were, whether they were still living, and two local phone calls, I had the specifics- down to the plot number in the section and block of the cemetery. All because another researcher had noted the cemetery where his parents were buried, long after his death in 1968 in Quang Tri,Vietnam!
Let's all take a moment or two and THANK the other researchers who are thorough, accurate and so helpful to our own research and those we help along! I'm sending the researcher a short, written thank you note today, hopefully encouraging the man who may never know how helpful his published research was for others, far away here in Minnesota. I encourage you to do the same- offer the words of appreciation we ourselves so seldom hear as dedicated researchers and hopefully, more people will "pay it forward" and genealogists will gain even greater respect and admiration for all the good we do !