I DO NOT link to unknown burials. From Find A Grave help section: "Burial Details Unknown: Find a Grave's purpose is to catalog and make available final disposition information. If burial information is unknown for an individual, Find a Grave is probably not the right place for their information....We expect members to do the best they can to find final disposition information and that if an unknown burial is added, that it is uncommon."

The majority of my time on Find A Grave is spent doing research to add information to my memorials. I try to do at least some research for each memorial I've entered, but it takes A LOT of time. Walking cemeteries for photos is a very small part of what I do.

For those who have assumed management of vacated memorials, remember what you agreed to when assuming management:
"Respond respectfully to 'edit requests' and other contacts regarding this memorial
Transfer the memorial to any relative if they request it"

Please do your own research before sending edits. ADDING pertinent information for memorials is always welcome and greatly appreciated, but be very careful when CORRECTING information someone has entered on their memorials. I'm human and definitely do make mistakes, but don't appreciate my time being wasted researching edits sent to me with trivial or incorrect information. My time would be better spent doing my own research or walking cemeteries for photos.

I DO add multiple last names if a woman has been married more than once. Per Find A Grave help section: "Include the last name on the headstone. Other married names can be included in the last name field as all surnames are searchable in Memorial Search." Many times a woman dies with one married name, but is buried with a previous husband, so the surname shown on the grave marker was NOT her name at the time of her death.

RE the memorials now managed by Find A Grave...I will assume management of a memorial if I have something meaningful to add to the memorial; i.e. bio, links, photo, obit. But I don't think these memorials need to be "adopted" as some contributors say in their bio LOL. People just scoop them up by the thousands when they have no connection to the deceased and no intention of enhancing the memorial in any way. Definitely not my style. The memorials are actually better left managed by Find A Grave - edits are automated and go through faster, anyone can add info to the bio, and if a family member comes along it would be much easier for them to assume management of the memorial. Just my 2cents (and thanks for "listening" to my rant :)
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I DO NOT link to unknown burials. From Find A Grave help section: "Burial Details Unknown: Find a Grave's purpose is to catalog and make available final disposition information. If burial information is unknown for an individual, Find a Grave is probably not the right place for their information....We expect members to do the best they can to find final disposition information and that if an unknown burial is added, that it is uncommon."

The majority of my time on Find A Grave is spent doing research to add information to my memorials. I try to do at least some research for each memorial I've entered, but it takes A LOT of time. Walking cemeteries for photos is a very small part of what I do.

For those who have assumed management of vacated memorials, remember what you agreed to when assuming management:
"Respond respectfully to 'edit requests' and other contacts regarding this memorial
Transfer the memorial to any relative if they request it"

Please do your own research before sending edits. ADDING pertinent information for memorials is always welcome and greatly appreciated, but be very careful when CORRECTING information someone has entered on their memorials. I'm human and definitely do make mistakes, but don't appreciate my time being wasted researching edits sent to me with trivial or incorrect information. My time would be better spent doing my own research or walking cemeteries for photos.

I DO add multiple last names if a woman has been married more than once. Per Find A Grave help section: "Include the last name on the headstone. Other married names can be included in the last name field as all surnames are searchable in Memorial Search." Many times a woman dies with one married name, but is buried with a previous husband, so the surname shown on the grave marker was NOT her name at the time of her death.

RE the memorials now managed by Find A Grave...I will assume management of a memorial if I have something meaningful to add to the memorial; i.e. bio, links, photo, obit. But I don't think these memorials need to be "adopted" as some contributors say in their bio LOL. People just scoop them up by the thousands when they have no connection to the deceased and no intention of enhancing the memorial in any way. Definitely not my style. The memorials are actually better left managed by Find A Grave - edits are automated and go through faster, anyone can add info to the bio, and if a family member comes along it would be much easier for them to assume management of the memorial. Just my 2cents (and thanks for "listening" to my rant :)
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