r/findagrave • • 13h ago

What determines order of wives

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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 !

fyi: for spouses that you enter both wedding dates, they appear in order by date; and if you know only one date, the one with a date will appear first.


r/findagrave • • 15h ago

The stone cutter did not notice his error

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


r/findagrave • • 45m ago

Discussion Do you use Findagrave for research?

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I take photos and add them to FG. I also do genealogical research and have a very big family tree with my family and several offshoots.

But I've used FG very little for research.

Many in my family have been covered by other researchers and left many records. On checking FG, most also have memorials and photos. Overall, I believe FG has given me one date for a family member and discovered one second cousin I didn't know about (a surprise, they were buried in the same cemetery as my parents).

The most information I have gotten from FG was tracking one of my offshoot families - my grandmothers first husband, not my grandfather - and that is largely because there were only three families that came over to the new country and retained their, unique, surname.


r/findagrave • • 13h ago

Today my grandma would have celebrated her 91st birthday

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r/findagrave • • 16h ago

So this new "ticket" system with Support

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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.