New as a contributor to Find a Grave in 2017, I am amazed at the incredible amount of work that others have contributed to create these memorials. For that I am most sincerely grateful. My wife gets all the credit (or blame, depending on your perspective) for infecting me with the genealogy bug. My interest on F.A.G. is primarily to add and contribute to the accuracy of familial links between memorials. I appreciate the open access that enables anyone who has internet access to make these connections. This is not a comprehensive tool for genealogy; not a place to store research documentation, but it is a great place to start. Like the information found anywhere on the internet, one should not assume accuracy without some sort of corroborative evidence. Indexes, obituaries, census records, draft records, and birth, marriage, and death records are all good examples of places to corroborate information. Just keep in mind that many of those sources (especially digital transcriptions of original documents which were written in cursive) can be fraught with errors. (My great grandmother Fredericka Schroeder is transcribed in one census as Bernice and in another as Schneider.) In a short time, I have made a number of edit requests that have all been accepted and seemingly, welcomed. My belief is that every contributor has a vested interest in the accuracy and completeness of the information found herein. That being said, it is my opinion that where there are conflicts between data sources, the names and dates on the head stones should prevail for the purposes of these memorials. Conflicts may be noted in secondary text fields. If you are a contributor, thank you for what you do! "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller

New as a contributor to Find a Grave in 2017, I am amazed at the incredible amount of work that others have contributed to create these memorials. For that I am most sincerely grateful. My wife gets all the credit (or blame, depending on your perspective) for infecting me with the genealogy bug. My interest on F.A.G. is primarily to add and contribute to the accuracy of familial links between memorials. I appreciate the open access that enables anyone who has internet access to make these connections. This is not a comprehensive tool for genealogy; not a place to store research documentation, but it is a great place to start. Like the information found anywhere on the internet, one should not assume accuracy without some sort of corroborative evidence. Indexes, obituaries, census records, draft records, and birth, marriage, and death records are all good examples of places to corroborate information. Just keep in mind that many of those sources (especially digital transcriptions of original documents which were written in cursive) can be fraught with errors. (My great grandmother Fredericka Schroeder is transcribed in one census as Bernice and in another as Schneider.) In a short time, I have made a number of edit requests that have all been accepted and seemingly, welcomed. My belief is that every contributor has a vested interest in the accuracy and completeness of the information found herein. That being said, it is my opinion that where there are conflicts between data sources, the names and dates on the head stones should prevail for the purposes of these memorials. Conflicts may be noted in secondary text fields. If you are a contributor, thank you for what you do! "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller