Found this while doing some research, something is off! Not sure if the stone cutter made the error or the paperwork was incorrect.

Is there a page somewhere that you can check the status of the ticket? Otherwise, I'm really not sure how this is any improvement over the old send-us-an-email method.

What determines the order of the wives when neither of them has a marriage date entered ?

They're not in order alphabetically by 1st name nor last name. They are not in order by birth date. They are not in order by FG ID # or creation date (the one that is 2nd has a much lower # that only has 8 digits that starts with 5 and was created in 2010, the other is 9 digits that starts with 1 and was created in 2014) The new one added went to the top, but when I deleted the 1st one that was added and then re-added it, it did not go to the top. The only difference that might? affect it is the wife that is loading in 2nd did re-marry after the 1st husband died, the other wife never married anyone else. I can't figure it out !

Small cemeteries are nice - you can walk the entire cemetery in a day - or less. But there may be only a few requests. Big cemeteries tend to have many, many requests, but can take days to walk.

Today I am going to a big cemetery:

Hope Cemetery: 168 acres, 55,000 memorials, 84% photographed, 290 requests (70 with plot information).

It's great exercise. Lot's of uphill, downhill. I've walked it before, and reduced 200 requests down to 120. It took seven visits. It bothers me when the number exceeds 200.

The cemetery is frustrating. There are many flat stones that are covered or buried, many areas with few stones, and many stones broken or illegible. There's good reason why I could only get 80 out of 200 requests on my first attempt.

I have 5 pages of alphabetized names, 2 pages of the names that have plot information, and 2 pages of the names submitted in the last two years, which I have never searched for.

I am dealing with a horrible manager who thinks he is related to everyone. I'm not kidding. All he does is upload obituaries, sometimes less than a day after they are published. He was suspended for creating memorials for living people, but less than 24 hours later, he made a new account. Should I report this new account? It's obviously him because the username is similar, and he's doing the same things all over again. He's DMing people and questioning their relationships with their own relatives. I don't care if people use obituaries to create memorials, but don't question family members or pretend to be related to people you're not related to.

Wouldn't it be nice if Findagrave had a family tree feature, similar to the big genealogical websites? Obviously, the only way to build a tree for a person would be to use the linked relatives. If no-one is linked to a person, then they would not have a family tree available. I would find this feature very useful, at least as a start to research.

Hi everyone! I have an ancestor who died in 1900 at a county poorhouse in MI. He was buried on the "county farm" which to me means on the grounds of the poorhouse. In the past when I've entered a memorial it's been from the actual cemetery, meaning add a memorial to a cemetery I'm looking in. Since there isn't an official cemetery for where he's buried would I tick "not buried in a cemetery"? Thanks!

Find A Grave News for Spooky Month! Hope you enjoy!

hi, the account that manages many of my family's memorials was deleted a few weeks ago. when will the memorials they manage be transferred to findagrave? does it still take a full year? or just until the time they can reclaim their account expires? thanks. i'll probably just contact support and ask for management if it will take a year

I'm doing family tree research and I came across 2 separate listings on Find A Grave for the same person, in different neighboring cemeteries. This has happened twice, for this person and her husband. They each have one grave in St. Joseph's Church Cemetery in Toomevara, Tipperary, Ireland, and one grave in The Square Graveyard, which is across the street.

• Annie Boland Ryan:
  • St. Joseph's Cemetery Listing
  • Square Graveyard Listing
    • Photo of the headstone I found on another site
  • Irish civil death record (row 100) death date matches both listings as 26-May 1951
• Joseph Ryan:
  • St. Joseph's Cemetery Listing
  • Square Graveyard Listing
  • The death date on both headstones is 22-Sept 1953. However I can only find a death record for a Joseph Ryan who died on 22-Sept 1952. And it says he was married, not a widower. I suppose it's possible two people with the exact same name died on the exact same day one year apart, but both headstones list 1953 as the year of death.

I have the marriage record for both of them (the 3rd one down) and both Find A Grave listings are connected to each other. Both of their respective headstones have the exact same date of death so I don't think they're separate people. I searched around online to see if graves were moved or the cemetery was updated or something, but I can't find anything. They seem to be two separate cemeteries, and they both have graves for the same people...

Does anyone have any idea why or how this could be?

I find myself drawn to her and can’t help but stop in to visit her from time to time. I can find very little about her and was wondering if anyone had a bit of spare time on their hands that could dig a little & give me any info!! thanks in advance x

I'm used to getting the automated response to be patient while they work through a backlog. However, this time, I got the following:

"Thank you for contacting Find a Grave. We’ve opened ticket number {redacted} to track your request. To add additional comments, reply to this email.

"We will get back to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, please check out our support site, which has detailed instructional articles and answers to frequently asked questions. We look forward to assisting you!"

Hi, all.

Reddit just put this sub in my feed for the first time so I thought I would ask a question here about something I noticed recently on the Find a Grave website.

It was my late mother's birthday last week so I went to the site to re-read her obituary. I noticed that someone had added my mother's birth certificate to the page since the last time I looked at it. She was born and buried in a state where birth certificates are public record after 75 years. So while not illegal, this struck me as inappropriate as well as a violation of privacy. Without going into detail, there are circumstances around my mother's birth that she was ashamed of and I think she'd be mortified having her birth certificate so visible. I had never even seen it myself until I saw it on Find a Grave.

Has it become common practice for birth certificates to be added to pages?

I don't know the person maintaining the page or who added her birth certificate. Would it be reasonable for me to ask that it be removed?

Thank you for any insight into this. I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I rarely use the site. I generally only use it to re-read my parents obituaries occasionally and I really don't know how the site operates.

Hi everyone!

I’m trying to locate a death record, obituary, or burial information for Gloria Patricia García, who we believe passed away from leukemia in Los Angeles County around late 1978 or early 1979.

Here’s what we know:

Born: Approximately 1960–1961.
Lived in: Pico Rivera, California (possibly Downey or South Gate).
Mother: Celia (Sally/Sali) García.
Father: Elías García.
Brother: Elías García.
Married: Around 1975, possibly in Las Vegas, Nevada with Jose Diaz

I started volunteer with Find a Grave this year and I’ve uploading almost 3,000 photos. I’m a professional photographer and take pride on accuracy. Most of the cemeteries I’m working on haven’t been touched since 2011. I’m currently mowing rows to add gps to memorials. I received an email from a volunteer today that I’ll post below but I’m not sure how to respond or what to respond. I went through my photos just to be sure but since I mow rows I don’t post photos of people unless I personally knew them. Since I’m in a rural area a lot of cemeteries aren’t maintained well and if something is growing into a headstone I’ll show that. Am I doing anything wrong here?

hi, im trying to find where my father is buried and sadly i have very limited info so any help is welcomed!

• his name was andrei (might be written as andrey or Андрей - in russian).
• he was born on july, 1962 (might be 1961).
• died in november, 2000.
• was buried in romania or russia.
• if it helps in any way he died from a heart stroke.

EDIT: theres a chance he might be buried at a cemetaey in Ghindaresti, romania but idk how to make sure.

Has anyone ever emailed a funeral to get permission for the use of an obituary for their find a grave page ? If so what was the funeral homes response. Have you typically been denied or accepted. I have a few memorial pages I’d like to post the obituary but want to be respectful about it. Thanks!

How annoying, I found a user who has been uploading blank white photos and setting them as the cover on memorials they manage with captions “prefer seeing this to the picture/obituary”. Seems pedantic, and is certainly a disservice to legacy of the people they manage- especially since there are wonderful photos on many of these memorials. And of course their bio is a novel length diatribe against other users, mainly revolving around a self made set of rules and site expectations. Blah… it confuses me to no end why people trip so hard on this site, we are all working together here.

If you photograph gravestones at cemeteries . . .

• Do you Volunteer and get notices as requests are added?
• How many cemeteries do you visit and return to repeatedly?
• Do you 'share' a cemetery with other Volunteers?

I'm thinking to mark this as a cenotaph, but looking for other thoughts.

Here's the situation: I happened across a tombstone for a couple with birth years from the 1920s and no year of death. I searched FG and found them buried in another cemetery. I feel like I should make a FG entry for the first cemetery to direct anyone looking to their final resting place. Should I post it as a cenotaph? Or something else.

RESOLVED: I created the cenotaphs and linked them to the couple’s final resting place. Thanks for your support.