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The majority of the memorials I've added have a connection with Marion County, South Carolina.
I verify edits before accepting so don't be offended if I ask for proof of your suggestion, it just means I was unable to find it on my own. You can send any documents as attachments to my email.
If someones obit, death certificate, etc. states they were born or died in Dillon County and it was before 1910, they were born or died in Marion County. I use this on the memorials I add, what others do is up to them.
Many men never used Sr. or Jr. as suffixes to their names, even though they were. If the suffix isn't added to their marker or mentioned in their obituary I generally won't add it.
If I've added your family member and I'm not related I'll be happy to transfer them to you.
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Recently I was asked to provide a link in the bio of a 1st cousin. Since links aren't allowed here, they frequently become broken, I declined. The link was to the high school my cousin had attended.
When I clicked on the link, expecting to see a lovely tribute, I saw instead an exact duplicate of his Find A Grave page that I had created 16 years ago. Verbatim. The only difference being there was no reference to Find A Grave or myself, the quotation marks were removed from the bio, as well as the name of his son who was the author of the bio. I asked David Allen Pettigrew, who is the creator of the high school website, to remove my photo and bio of Ed and write his own.
To say he wasn't happy is an understatement. On my cousins memorial page, Mr. Pettigrew posted my email to him, his response and is acting as if I took his memorial rather than the other way around. This all happened on a school website which should know what plagiarism is. "The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." The irony is had he asked, I likely would have given permission to use my writeup.
I've included this as explanation to anyone who clicks on the link Mr. Pettigrew has provided. It's probably confusing to visit my cousin's high school profile and see very little about him but an awful lot about me. I could do as Mr. Pettigrew has, and add this to my cousins Find A Grave memorial page but that will remain about my cousin, not David Pettigrew. - RPM, March 22, 2024
The majority of the memorials I've added have a connection with Marion County, South Carolina.
I verify edits before accepting so don't be offended if I ask for proof of your suggestion, it just means I was unable to find it on my own. You can send any documents as attachments to my email.
If someones obit, death certificate, etc. states they were born or died in Dillon County and it was before 1910, they were born or died in Marion County. I use this on the memorials I add, what others do is up to them.
Many men never used Sr. or Jr. as suffixes to their names, even though they were. If the suffix isn't added to their marker or mentioned in their obituary I generally won't add it.
If I've added your family member and I'm not related I'll be happy to transfer them to you.
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Recently I was asked to provide a link in the bio of a 1st cousin. Since links aren't allowed here, they frequently become broken, I declined. The link was to the high school my cousin had attended.
When I clicked on the link, expecting to see a lovely tribute, I saw instead an exact duplicate of his Find A Grave page that I had created 16 years ago. Verbatim. The only difference being there was no reference to Find A Grave or myself, the quotation marks were removed from the bio, as well as the name of his son who was the author of the bio. I asked David Allen Pettigrew, who is the creator of the high school website, to remove my photo and bio of Ed and write his own.
To say he wasn't happy is an understatement. On my cousins memorial page, Mr. Pettigrew posted my email to him, his response and is acting as if I took his memorial rather than the other way around. This all happened on a school website which should know what plagiarism is. "The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." The irony is had he asked, I likely would have given permission to use my writeup.
I've included this as explanation to anyone who clicks on the link Mr. Pettigrew has provided. It's probably confusing to visit my cousin's high school profile and see very little about him but an awful lot about me. I could do as Mr. Pettigrew has, and add this to my cousins Find A Grave memorial page but that will remain about my cousin, not David Pettigrew. - RPM, March 22, 2024
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