How to Use Find a Grave + Mobile App
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- Learn how to use and some of the tricks to maximize your genealogy research using the Find a Grave website. Family historians have been using FindaGrave.com for years, but many skip some important tricks that can help you expand your family tree. Plus, learn how to use the Find a Grave mobile app!
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0:00 Intro
0:04 Find-A-Grave website and mobile app
0:39 Drill into hints on Ancestry.com
2:12 Information is provided by volunteers & can have mistakes.
2:48 Pay attention to cemetery name and memorial ID number.
5:21 Photographs on Find-A-Grave
6:10 Save or download the tombstone image
8:05 Photo requests for free
9:01 Virtual flowers on memorials
10:44 Virtual cemeteries
11:48 Ownership of memorials
12:53 Suggested edits on memorials you don’t own
15:16 Being a contributor to the site
18:15 Contributing and volunteering
20:25 Call the cemetery & get a map ahead of visiting
22:15 Download the list of requests
23:27 Fulfilling a request with the mobile app
24:28 Adding photos from your cell phone
26:10 Where to find the handout?
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When visiting a cemetery, it is a good idea to let someone know you are there, be aware of others around you and of your security. Sometimes there are questionable people looking for an opportunity.
Good point.
Yes, a relative’s wife was shot & killed a number of years ago. Not sure what happened exactly. Be aware
If you want to submit corrections to names, dates, places or relationships, the memorial manager is much more likely to approve them if you upload an obit, a DC, or some other document in which your proposed change is supported.
I created virtual cemeteries for all my family lines, since they are buried in multiple cemeteries. I also have a virtual cemetery for the Civil War soldiers from my father’s home town because I am researching them as well.
I made a virtual cemetery for each of my grandparents' families, as well as for my ex-husband's grandparents' families. That way I can help my kids and grandkids find their Dad's side of their family.
This is very timely, especially with Memorial Day coming up in May. Lots of people maybe out at cemeteries decorating their family members graves during this time period. I will be sharing this video on my Facebook with a request for people to contribute! Thanks for the great information!
I totally agree! Thanks for sharing.
Note that there are shared headstones in which a mate that outlived his or her spouse is given a birth year followed by a dash. Some call these "anticipatory" headstones. At the time of the death of the first of the couple to die, the spouse was anticipated that he or she would also be buried in that same plot. However, that plan is not always carried out. The surviving spouse may well remarry and be buried eventually in a plot with a subsequent spouse. Or the surviving spouse may move so far away that it isn't practical to have the corpse shipped back to be buried with the deceased souse. Now, people who try to upload all the headstones for a cemetery will usually make a memorial for the anticipated spouse (unless it is reasonable to think the anticipated spouse is still alive -- say, the first spouse to die did so in 2000). However, the odds in such cases are that the anticipated spouse was buried somewhere else, and if you search for a duplicate memorial for that person you are very likely to find his or her true gravesite. Thus, if you should stumble upon a FG memorial to a person whose burial was anticipated by a shared headstone, if the earlier spouse to die did so prior to the 21st Century you should immediately suspect that this surviving spouse was not ever buried with prior spouse and you can start searching for the person's true burial site.
More good points Gerald. Another thought. Even if the spouse wasn't buried there, the birth year is listed for this person, in your scenario. Just a little bit of data to add to the family tree.
@@GenealogyTV That birth year should help you find where the anticipated spouse is really buried.
Thanks for pointing this out. This issue of a "Shared headstone" has caused me hours and hours of corrections and dialog with folks who had assumed that the incorrect information posted in Find a Grave was correct. My father in law died in 1990. My mother in law prepaid for a double grave and marker at that time. Her name and birthdate as well as their marriage date was inscribed at that time. First of all, please do not inscribe the spouse's name while they are living. My sweet Mom in law went to visit the cemetery at the anniversary of her husband's death. She saw her own name there, and couldn't deal with it. She never went back. It was too difficult for her to view her own name on a gravestone.
Fortunately, she lived another 30 years. Along comes the internet and Find a Grave. The guy who created the memorial for my father in law also created one for Mom. He hadn't noticed that there was no death date, and did not double check. I did not become aware of Find a Grave until several years later. The gentleman who had created my In-Laws' memorials was quite apologetic and transferred them to me. But, the website's indexes had already been published many times. A full 7 years before my mother in law died, she was already being recorded on trees (and Family Search) as deceased. Thank God that my family does not know about virtual cemeteries, or they would have gone ballistic! More than a couple of people who had recorded Mom as deceased (I don't know why they even had her in their extended trees) actually stated to me "Well, if she was born in 1920, I just assumed that she was dead."
Mom has since been returned to her shared graveside with her husband. We lost her to medical misdiagnosis in 2020, six months after turning 100 years old. I miss her every day. 😊
I truly want to thank you for this recent video. I had no idea how people left "flowers/flags/" etc in the past and this has been wonderful. I have spent the morning honoring family, classmates and acquaintances!!!
You are so welcome!
Awesome review Connie! FYI, I have virtual cemeteries not only for family but for one for Friends, those with whom we went to college, and for our church.
FindaGrave is a great site. Other tools I take to the cemetery: 1 an umbrella to shade the stone to help when putting light on it; 2 a mirror. A flashlight can do the job, but on a sunny day a mirror can give much more light. In fact I sometimes use 2 mirrors that I can stick in the ground, one to shine the light on the stone, the other to reflect the sunlight onto the other mirror. The 2nd mirror can help get the sunlight when the stone is under a tree & by sticking them in the ground, your hands are free to take the photo.
Great tips
I watched this video last week and since then when I'm on FAG, i leave daffodils and Assistant Historian, Virginia Mayflower Society if I'm searching to help a GSMD applicant. If it's just for my own research, i leave the daffodil and a familial identifying message. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank you for all the great information you share.
Thank you. This was very informative and has given me information I didn’t even know about. I never thought about how people created the virtual cemeteries, I’m glad I watched. Awesome, again.
So glad!
Thank you for the video on Find a Grave! I’ve been using this website quite a bit of late to find missing relatives and work on a brick wall. I use the site in a bit of a different way looking for cemeteries and then for individual relatives or potential using various features and search strategies. It is more of a top line cemeteries approach, which I’ve found useful as I search back into the early 1800s in small, family-centric cemeteries. I like the feature that shows the total number of memorials (speaks to size of cemetery), and have used the feature that shows nearby cemeteries. I have found small, off-the-beaten-track cemeteries using this feature. Also, I have been using strategies to find all persons with a specific last name (including unknown or unnamed children) and using plot numbers to find groups of family members with different last names. I do wish it was easier to find dates and information on the origins of the cemeteries, though I get the name is find a grave and not find a cemetery! :-) Looking forward to your next video. Pam
Thanks Pam
Thanks another great one
Outstanding show as usual, can i request one on new orleans old cemeteries. 💕💜
I did not know how virtual cemeteries worked. Thank you!!
Thank you for this.... My volunteer ID# is #24. I was given a box of 1000+ newspaper clippings. I am uploading them as fast as I can. These tips will be a great help!!! THANKS!!!
Awesome!
Thanks Connie!
I enjoyed your video and was surprised to see you live in the same town as I do, Wilmington.
No way! Really?
@@GenealogyTVI live across from Greenlawn Memorial Park
Thank you for all the great information 🙏
Any time!
Thanks bunches
I've had several of my suggested edits okayed simply because nobody came back to look at them. If the suggestion isn't acted upon by the memorial manager in a certain amount of time (which seems to be about 2-3 weeks), my edit suggestion is auto-approved and adopted.
Once in a while I've seen photos in the section for transcriptions, and helped out with a few of them as I saw them pop up there. I think either there are a lot of people waiting to transcribe those photos, or there are very few of them that are marked as needing transcriptions. On the occasion where I see photo transcription requests in languages I don't understand, I leave them, and find that they are almost always transcribed and done by the time I come back to the site the next day.
My big philosophy with Find A Grave is that I treat it like I would any other user-generated tree. The data there are hints that I look at as suggestions of primary records to find for verification. I've seen several memorials where the data in the database is contradicted and disproven by the original records that are scanned and uploaded there into the photos section.
True caution, about the validity of grave marker information. It is not always the actual truth and more documents should be found to validate the marker information, if possible.
Yes! Absolutely. I treat it the same... like a member hint... and look for the sources.
Connie, thanks so much for the detailed, informative video. Your timing with this was great, being as I have just recently volunteered as a photographer for my area. There is a large number of requests and I am looking forward to getting out and fulfilling some of them (just waiting for some decent spring weather to arrive here in Regina, SK). I think I will feel a great deal of satisfaction from doing this (with the benefit of being outside).
PS: I think it would be worthwhile to suggest to Ancestry the idea of creating a fund that people/organizations can apply to for support for the upkeep/maintenance of old, untended cemeteries (I think it's an absolute shame when they become forgotten with time)!
Yeah... that usually gets left to the local genealogical societies. Sadly some of those have died out too.
Connie, I am a longtime user of Find-a-Grave, but your video told me so many new things I wasn't aware of! Thanks, and many thanks!
You are so welcome! Thanks for your support of the channel Richard.
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Thank you so much!
My fa,ily thinks I’m crazy to do these but I am happy to contribute
Thankyou Connie. I had contacted a distant relative.
Great video, thank you. I just signed up and there's 867 requests in my area. Wow
Have fun. bring water.
Possibly useful information when looking at UK burials.
With the odd exception cemeteries only started to appear in the UK after the Burial Act was passed in Parliament in the 1850's, prior to that churchyard burials are the norm.
Cemeteries use a plot numbering system, churchyards do not.
Some cemeteries are privately owned but the vast majority are the responsibility of the council for the area they sit within.
In the 1970's some county boundaries were changed and 'metropolitan councils' were created for several of the larger cities, these can be a bit of a nightmare to find in the listings as the city name alone isn't always enough, Sheffield for example is listed as 'Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England' whilst Manchester is ' Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England'.
Many councils have provided information and burial registers to Ancestry, FindMyPast or DeceasedOnline, the latter has a basic free search option but full results (such as plot number, other names within the grave and date of burial), can only be viewed by purchasing credits. Many councils can also provide plot details, some do so free of charge though there are councils that charge for the service. Bear in mind the larger cities often have multiple cemeteries many of which can contain tens of thousands of burials, photo requests with plot information will always be easier to fulfil so a bit of research before placing a request is time well spent.
Plots do not belong to the family though they may have purchased burial rights for a set period of time, eg 25, 50 or 100 years, in some cases the period may be longer but once the period has expired if surviving family do not repurchase the rights and there is space within the plot the rights may be purchased by another family, alternatively the council may classify the plot as a public grave and unrelated individuals may be placed in it over a period of years. Public graves cannot be marked by a headstone (there may be exceptions to the rule but most councils insist the burial rights are purchased before any marker can be erected). It's difficult to estimate the percentage of plots with headstones and in recent years many councils have carried out safety tests following fatalities caused by unsafe/falling headstones. any headstones deemed unsafe are taken down, if the family can be found they are given the opportunity to have the stone reinstated in a safe manner but sadly this isn't always the case and the testing procedure (known as a 'topple test'), has in some cases resulted in stones toppling over and being damaged, sometimes they are beyond repair as a result.
Several 'Friends of' groups and societies have been formed in recent years linked to individual cemeteries, they are largely volunteer groups and look after many of the older/closed cemeteries, it's worth googling to see if there is one linked to a cemetery as many are valuable resources of information. Facebook is also worth checking to see if there is a page connected to a particular cemetery. There are several UK based findagrave groups on facebook. I would recommend Findagrave. com members in the UK as being the one to look at.
Great information. Thanks for sharing.
I was just looking at Find a Grave this evening. I now know how to contact the person who supplied info for my great grand mother. There are a few errors that need fixing. Thank you. I also have photos of other markers for other family members who are buried in the same cemetery. I can take care of those "missing" names and grave markers now too.
You might also consider requesting to be given management of the memorial and care for it yourself. According to the online help such transfers are to be fast tracked for “close relationships”, defined as “ child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships.”
Wonderful!
Yes Kevin!
I definitely have some repeats on my tree. 😂 Some of it from family members crossing into another side of the family and the rest from I don't know what.
I am a volunteer photographer for Find-A-Grave. Not claiming a request is a problem for those of us who claim requests. After you take your time to fulfill the request and then find someone has already uploaded the photo, it is the a waste of your time. Please ask people to claim the requests. Thanks
I love Find a Grave. I personally haven't added any memorials, but love the steps you provided. I also, need to work on my virtual cemeteries. It would help to easily locate them if I am ever in the area. And while I'm at it, it was with find a grave that I submitted a photo request. A lady after a few months sent me a message saying that my paternal 2XGGF was buried without a stone. She sent photo's of the area he was buried and the plat book where it said no stone. After many years, this year I was financially able to remedy that and purchased a stone for him and his wife. Hopefully one day I will be able to visit it.
I might have missed it, as I've been busy with every other hobby I partake in. But I was curious your thoughts on the activity button they implemented at Ancestry? Definitely interesting.
I'm not sure what activity button you are referring to?
Don't be afraid to create a memorial, it's easy and painless. Make sure that you have a Death Certificate or obit, preferably both, and go strictly by the info you find there. The DC will usually name the cemetery. If you can't find the cemetery but you can find the funeral parlor, try to call the funeral parlor, and if they still exist they will be happy to tell you where the deceased ended up being buried. Be sure to scan and upload the DC and obits.
Always worth a look but have found some serious errors in additional "family" members who have been added.
Note that the transcription of the birth or death date on the headstone can occasionally be inaccurate. For example, a 3 can be an 8 that has faded out. Be alert to the possibility.
I find they are often inaccurate... especially on the birth information.
@@GenealogyTV So true! Always prefer the DC and the earliest Census over the headstone.
For images I take with my phone I don't ever upload the pictures via the phone app because I like to look at the image metadata "Horizontal Positioning Error" info to see which image has the most accurate coordinates. If the phone is not in range of enough of GPS satellites at the time of the photo this error value can be large.
Since the interface reads the coordinates from in the input picture I usually immediately delete the uploaded picture so that coordinates are saved.
Interesting. I didn't know that.
how can I put a photo "gif" in note flowers section.
I saw some people add like this.
thanks
Hi Constance, I have been a user of Find A Grave for just over 13 years. I love the site, but have only one complaint. There is no way to search for a cemetery by the cemetery ID that is given to every new cemetery added. I have left messages to the Find A Grave staff to have a search field placed on the site to enter the ID number to make going to the same cemetery you use often easier, and have gotten a message back saying that it would be given to the programming staff to consider. If you have a way to put in a request that may get more attention than I got, I would appreciate it. Please keep up the great videos you create.
Thanks for the compliments. After reading your comment I had to go look.. you're right... I usually just click on the cemetery name from one of the profiles and search for all the people by a surname in that cemetery. If I run into anyone that is from that team, I'll ask. Thanks again.
You are incorrect in regards to your statement about age "Someone put this in", age is calculated by Findagrave based on DOB & DOD
Connie. For the Find A Grave Memorials, are we allowed to create, for example, Peoria High School, Class of 1966 or Westside Chorus of London? Thank you.
If you are talking about a Virtual Cemetery, you can create what ever you want. Only you see it.
Are you able to shed any light on the Sync Problem on Ancestry. It’s been around 2 weeks now.
Syncing with what?
What if you have family that have been cremated and ashes scattered in the ocean or on a farm or elsewhere, How do you put them on find a grave?
You can add them without a physical grave... thus the memorial. They don't have to have a burial location.
@@GenealogyTV Yes you can create a memorial for a cremation. However, it is strictly forbidden to create a memorial for someone if you have no evidence where they were buried. They are entitled to delete illicit memorials. If you propose a link from a legit memorial to your created illicit memorial (say, son to father), experienced managers will deny the link and they may report you to FG.
@@GeraldM_inNC I didn’t know that. I think it’s a shame that, if you know someone was cremated & their ashes scattered in a certain place, or kept with family, that is information that someone may want to know in FIndAGrave. That way, a searcher doesn’t have to keep looking for this dead person’s grave.
@@Mistydazzle You misunderstood me. Cremations are fine. It's graveless burials that are forbidden, unless you can prove by a DC or obit or other document that he or she was buried in that specific cemetery. (I.e., you can't take a guess where he was buried, even if it's a reasonable guess.) It is possible to create a memorial for someone buried without assigning them to a cemetery at all, but FG insists that is strictly for temporary status while funeral arrangements are being made.
The big disadvantage of refusing to permit memorials for persons whose grave locations are unknown is that you can't link children to their parents. You will click on the link to someone's mother or father for a few generations until there is no link available because no grave is known for the parents. (Very common before 1850, and not at all unusual in the 20th Century.) In order to link up the family to ancestors some people (myself included) have tried to make memorials for people with no known grave, and FG isn't terribly diligent about taking them down -- although they are within their rights to do so. I imagine that if someone rats you out to FG, they will probably take it down. I got ratted out and was given a very stern warning. Since then I haven't created any graveless memorials, and I hold my breath hoping that if I keep a low profile they will leave the ones I created long ago alone. I never request a linkup from one of my illicit graveless memorials to a legitimate memorial, because the sticklers for the rules will reject the link and they may well report your illicit memorial too.
There is actually a way around the problem, because there is a way to put encoded links into the comment section of a memorial. Let's say there were six siblings with memorials but no known graves for their parents, and therefore no clear illustration of the memorials of the siblings, i.e., if you see one of the siblings you have no links to the others. Actually, there is a rarely utilized solution. There is a way to input a link manually into the comments. I haven't tried this yet, but it can be done. So you would make a list of all the known siblings with memorials and manually put in a code that if clicked would bring you directly to the other siblings. Or, you could just type in the memorial number for the other siblings and someone could search for the number manually. But it is indeed possible to put a clickable link for siblings into the comment section.
Wonderful information!!! I do have a question....I went in to Add a Flower to my father in law's memorial. It said I needed to create an account. What all is involved with creating and account???
Just your name and email. It's totally free.
@@GenealogyTV Thank You!!!
Question...I went to a cemetery and went in the office to get information on some requests but they told me I couldn't do that because I am not of the family and/or some other stuff. What should I do then? This cemetery has a lot of requests.
Perhaps share the requests with the cemetery and let them fulfill them. Unfortunately, there are some cemeteries that don't allow photographing of tombstones... even if they're hundreds of years old.
Is it appropriate to upload a newspaper obituary to find a grave if the person does not have a cemetery location or plot?
Absolutely. You can create a memorial without a physical location of a grave.
Last one out please turn the lights out.
Some headstones the information can no longer be read. Some cemeteries don’t keep records either.
So true.
Why would FindAGrave generate a “source citation” that doesn’t comply with genealogy standards?
Can you show an example where you’ve changed a FindAGrave-generated citation to be compliant?
Ancestry's sources are not compliant per the professional standards either. However, FamilySearch does or at least most of the time... IMHO.
Here is a Find a Grave source citation that I wrote for my research notes.
Find A Grave, Find A Grave, database with images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 April 2023), memorial 94307699, Jesse Eugene Davis (1810-1889), Genoa Cemetery, Wayne County, Iowa; gravestone photographed by mrearic.
Theirs is similar(below)... and a good source citation, just not the way I was taught.
Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/94307699/jesse-eugene-davis: accessed 15 April 2023), memorial page for Jesse Eugene Davis (6 Dec 1810-17 Mar 1889), Find a Grave Memorial ID 94307699, citing Genoa Cemetery, Genoa, Wayne County, Iowa, USA; Maintained by Dennis Brown (contributor 46959770). Both are acceptable in my book.
Hello and good day. If I'm editing a profile and I want to tag someone How do i do it? Is seen it where the name is blue in but I've always wanted to learn how to do it...
If you are the manager of the profile then click edit, then add the memorial ID of other people, like the mother, father or spouse. If you are not the memorial manager , then click suggest edits and suggest to the edits through contacting the memorial manager.
Please do CLAIM before you head out. It's really annoying to find someone else has done the photos once you return because they didn't bother to claim them. I actually stopped doing the cemetery within 2 miles of me because someone else was doing this all the time.
Good point.
Set your virtual cemeteries to public. Then other researchers can check the contents and see if you're interested in the same people.
Good point
Let me make it clear that FG treats any biological parent as a parent even if there was no marriage. If you are linking someone to his or her parents, it will appear as if the parents were married even if they were never married.
Adopted children are linked to their biological parents, unless the names of the biological parents aren't known. Then in the comment section you would add that so and so was adopted and raised by Mr. & Mrs. adoptive parents. Note that in the old days formal legal adoptions were rare. In Censuses you will see the same person sometimes being called by his birth surname and other times by his adopted surname. Very often a child used the surname of his mother's second husband without any formal adoption, and the child may later return to his real father's surname.
As for the surnames of "bastards", English common law was that they weren't entitled to bear their biological father's surname. However, rural America never held by that tradition. Women frequently called them by their biological father's surname. I have yet to see any clear pattern as to when women did this and when they didn't.
All good points. Keep in mind that you might find guardianship papers in the county courts for orphaned or adopted children.
Find a grave has become a terrible resource. Sure… great for marking a tombstones; however, the indicated relationships are VERY OFTEN wrong.
Ancestry is deleting original documents, leaving MAYBE their horribly inacurate transcriptions. Plus the "Need for Greed" bug has hit them. I canceled my subscription two months ago. Family Search has also ruined their site. Genealogy is becoming a dinasour.
What are better options? I’m still fairly new to my research and it’s a lot harder than I imagined. Most of my ancestors were part of the “grand derangement”. So the language switch, how many couldn’t read or write and just how common the names are, my goodness it’s hard..
@@ThisIsMyTH-camName1 I hear that and totally agree. I feel really stupid most of the time when doing mine and to think I thought this would be easy once I did a dna test, baaahaaaaaaa!! 🤦🏻♀️
@@lynntaylorbuccafuri5924 I help others and can move so quick. I’m about to start over because I’ve learned a lot during the process and finding many errors.
@@ThisIsMyTH-camName1 I could only wish to have the knowledge to help others or myself. I started this (2018) looking for my paternal relatives (dad was orphaned at 9, only kept in touch w/1 of his 7 siblings due to some kind of bs, and a couple of them passed away). He didn’t know anything about his parents besides his mother was from the Azore Islands, his father from the UK. (It’s possible he knew but just didn’t tell us (?) but the cousins we did know didn’t know much more than he did). Dad raised the 4 of us on his own. Mom left while pregnant with me but he took custody of me when I was about 18 months to raise me with my 3 older sisters who were with him already. I figured doing a dna test would find answers to our questions and curiosities of our paternal family…nope.
After I took my 3rd dna test (not knowing what I was doing when I started), I learned he wasn’t my biological father 😲. (He’ll always be my dad, nothing changes for me) I couldn’t use my dna to search so I had to get my oldest sister to test, and she had a cousin (son of my dads oldest brother) test. I have no clue how to read the cousins Y-dna results (FTDNA) but at least I can see his autosomal matches. It’s so hard and frustrating using their dna results to search. If I message their dna matches, I try to explain that I manage their dna results and what I’m searching for but they act as if I’m trying to commit identity theft or something. I have had no luck from anyone I’ve messaged.
I have learned my dads fathers name is not what I thought due to the name on documents found in the US, no consistency on dad or his siblings birth/death records as far as “fathers name and place of birth”. However, his father was born in Jamaica, 1881 (once owned by the UK). Also learned that his mother was abandoned at birth on Island of Terceira, Azores 1879. That came from papers we found in dads safe when he passed away, they were written in Portuguese 😣 so it took some time to find someone to translate them. This was confirmed by a dna match to my sister as well, however if she was abandoned at birth how did she have the same ‘surname’ of the people my sister is a dna match to(?), so only more questions have been added to the list for each of dads parents.
I would’ve been lost without their help. I’ve thought about starting over but I’m so afraid of tossing something away that might be important. This is definitely an expensive hobby, actually I call it my addiction and it’s so much harder than I ever expected.
I am technology challenged and I am having such a hard time understanding how to use some of the tools available for comparing dna results and trying to understand them.
Surnames, (OMG) my fathers surname is TAYLOR, my mother was McFADDEN+McINTYRE, several other common Irish surnames also 😣. It seems there are millions of TAYLOR’s in the world, originating from various locations. I totally agree with you and get what your saying.
I still consider myself new to genealogy even though I’ve been trying to do it for the past 5 years.
I apologize for the length of this. It’s hard finding people who care to hear what I am saying when it comes to my genealogy.
Photo Volunteers: Please heed that one thing she said that went by so quickly: Wider shots. I have been able to accept or reject a similarly named and located gravesite because there was just enough of a family member headstone next to it still in the picture that finished off the connection. Not super wide, but wide enough to catch other stones that seem like they're part of the context, and still legible enough to see them all together. Unfortunately not many pages have that.
But of the ones that have, I've found new family member names to add, I've been able to confirm/reject one person vs. a nearly identical person. I even have found info from the headstone at the side of the picture, that gave me a date to attach to a family member name. That key item was enough to unlock a trove of information that searches were not turning up before.
A tip I stumbled upon: once you find a grave that you know is valid, maybe click on the cemetery name and check the list of documented graves there. If the cemetery is 'the only one in town' or aligned with a church or organization that a lot of the family would have been 'near' or part of, there may be a lot of other family members there who hadn't turned up in grave searches before or sometimes the dates/etc. give you what you need for a breakthrough. Or if you're super lucky and there are slightly wider photos on some other similarly named pages, you can see that person is connected to your subject because of a stray headstone in the picture...
Yes! Agreed!
here's one you forgot to mention, when people just browse online obituaries & upload that to F.A.G. someone did that to me & I was lucky enough that they transferred it to me. but I had to contact them yet again, because I didn't want all that personal info on the site & I wasn't able to remove it all & needed them to do that. why they couldn't be bothered to just go to the cemetery, I'll never know. oh & I never put in a request.