How to Confirm Information You Find on Find A Grave for Genealogy

Find A Grave for genealogy is a great resource...for clues! Researcher beware! Pictures, dates, biographies, and seemingly complete family trees can be found on Find A Grave, but how do you know it is accurate? You don't until you do your own research with vital records and more!

Learn a few tips in today's Genealogy Tip Tuesday video of how to verify information on Find A Grave.

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[liberty]

You always do such a great job of teaching. I love Find A Grave! I’ve found some great info this way. I may have been caught in the trap before but usually compare to other sources. 💕😉

[samuelvink]

Great stuff, I became worried about find a grave after I noticed that the family members weren't always on the gravestones in the photos.
Now, contacting the contributors sounds great but as we could see with K Roberts, sometimes they have done hundreds of edits. Isn't it a bit unfair to expect them to respond to so many people asking them the same thing? Is there not a way for them to publicly denote their source?

[greenacresfarms]

Is there a way to way to GPS tag a grave we find, along with tagging the information that is on grave site?

[kevincall]

Can you put burial plot or grave locations on peoples memorials so people can find their love ones and their ancestors?

[grannysyardsaledotcom]

Can you upload video? I found a bunch of film of graves