Find A Grave - Top 5 Tips

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[melodycook]

When I leave a flower, I try and leave my relationship to the person for whom I am leaving a flower. It also helps other researchers who may be looking for relatives. It helps them know you are related and not just a friend or someone who leaves flowers on random memorials.

[cesiliebotello]

One thing to remember when photographing tombstones is lighting. I always take a spray bottle of plain water to squirt on the lettering on the tombstone. This brings out the lettering in the picture. Also, always look on backs of tombstones. In my case my parents are buried on one side and my grandparents are buried on the other. Some times you can find additional information on the backside of tombstones.

[elli]

Note of caution on Find-a-Grave. Photos of old limestone graves are sometimes heavily covered in lichens that contribute to a partially dissolved facing. A marker dated 1733 could in fact be 1738. Also, some markers have been replaced in recent years by a family's enthusiastic re-discovery and newfound interest in genealogy. They don't always get it correct. Always verify your work.

[cathyhughes]

Just a word of caution. Not all info that volunteers have contributed is accurate. This is a good jumping off point, however, for further research. I recently discovered a tombstone attributed to one cemetery was actually in a different cemetery in the same town.

[johnmeyer]

When I started using findagrave there were about 500 thousand listings. Where my family are from there were several ardent findagrave transcribers, so I found a lot of family listings. I looked for cemetery transcription's and added entire listings to findagrave.
Just yesterday I found a distant relative and saw she is showing in-correct parents. I added her death certificate and obituary. The person who controls the listing has been notified and hopefully a correction will be made.
I always read the obits if there is one.

[bethmeadorsmurphy]

Thanks Constance for another great and helpful video! My son and I are contributors on Find-a-Grave too, we usually go out one or two Saturdays a month and print out the photo requests in our area. It’s a lot of fun and gives him and I some bonding time as well! I also enjoy using the transcription feature on their site and helping out that way as well.

[tmpatklk]

Great video, Constance. Thanks for sharing. I like to contribute by adding exact dates and places of births and deaths when only the years are listed. I also corrected a few errors. Another thing I do is link people to their parents so that all of the siblings become grouped as a family. I haven't tried the virtual cemeteries or left flowers yet and I now understand their value.

[judyhall]

I just watched this. I have used findagrave often but never knew about virtual cemeteries so immediately created one. Just looking at one cemetery I discovered the recent death of a family member that I was unaware of and the location of several graves I hadn’t known before. Thank you for passing your knowledge on to us.

[Colinish]

Thanks Conney, I have been using Finda a Grave for several years now, mainly correcting or adding information, using the EDIT feature. I enjoy joining family up. I learnt so much today, that I will now take on board next time.

[robinnewton]

Great tips! I never understood the Virtual Cemetery link before but now I realize that's a really helpful tool to have information organized in a handy way. One comment about uploading from a cemetery. I spent some time in a cemetery three-days-drive from my home this past summer. Managed to photograph and upload requested photos on two or three graves before my phone died. So, be mindful of power constraints. You can always photograph and upload later. The other thing is I never heard back from any of the people who had requested photos. I don't need that, (maybe they aren't interested anymore for many reasons) but I think if someone fulfills a request I might make, I would try to send out a Thank You right away!

[fishinwidow]

I love findagrave and the app. I recently discovered that my ggreat-grandfather had all but one of his children buried in his plot but they only have one large stone for all of them. We have been leaving actual flowers for him for many years not knowing about the others so I added that information and linked his other son and my grandmother to him.

[malaisity]

When I first started genealogy, FAG was my major source of finding my people. When a profile is started, who does the linked people? And thank you to those who put the plot numbers. Family plots make it much easier to determine who's family, if not the relationships.

[adamdemirs]

My grandmother was buried in an unmarked grave in Maine in 1928. Dads family didnt have enough money for a headstone apparently. Proving really hard to find her location.

[lisaknox]

In 2013, I discovered that a local man in Vermilion County, IL had done every cemetery in his county, complete with pictures of headstones. I saw my paternal grandmother's headstone, which I had never seen before. I also found out that is not allowed at national cemeteries, unless they authorize it.

[richardhoover]

Thank you spreading the word about this important tool. Just in passing, I noticed your Flora Henley married a Coltrane. Coltrane is one of my allied lines also in Randolph County. My ancestors were McDaniels and Clarks. Thanks for all videos!

[stitchengramie]

I am a volunteer photographer and historian for Find-a-Grave. Also, sometimes you will come across a military's person who has to gravestones. But is buried in two different places. One may of been for his limb and later one for himself.

[staceycoates]

One of the things I do (which is related to one of the things you do) is look in the cemetery for others with the same name, especially if I am missing a spouse or a young child. I have found spouses, second spouse, young children, parents, married children that way. Because you are right, if there are people with the same last name in a cemetery, there is a good chance they are related.

[bahaven]

THANK YOU for that. I LOVE this site. NOW I'm going to help others and photo in the cemeteries near me! LOVE that I can make my own cemetery too.

[jeanettahenderson]

Thank you for the tutorial. Spent 2021 trying to navigate ancestry, family tree, find a grave and newspapers websites. This is very helpful advice. I can hardly wait to start my own virtual graveyard.

[janecantrell]

Thank you. I did not know about virtual cemeteries!