Flominator · @Flominator
453 followers · 3738 posts · Server genealysis.social

Visit at was a bit difficult, we spent a lot of time in silence (which still felt comfortable to both) and she told me about one event with her cousin, that I hadn't heard before. Same cousin I found on a soldier cemetery at and when I asked where the additional information came from, I received a scan from the cemetery book with his record.

#grandma #findagrave #Genealogy

Last updated 1 year ago

Graham Ancestry · @GrahamAncestry
20 followers · 24 posts · Server genealysis.social

Today, I came across a Find A Grave memorial for an ancestor where the memorial owner had the wrong date of death despite having a photograph of the grave marker and a reference to a census mortality schedule that provided the specific date of death. Their justification for denying this physical evidence: it contradicted multiple family trees on Ancestry.com. Sometimes people are so frustrating.

#Genealogy #familyhistory #research #findagrave

Last updated 1 year ago

Betsy Roberts Miller · @BRMiller
120 followers · 3493 posts · Server historians.social

Props to Daniel Loftus @thedanielsgenealogy for catching Find A Grave entries for at least 2 persons on the sub and notifying so those entries could be taken down. Many calls on for the posters to be permanently banned from Find A Grave, and for better oversight by their corporate owners.
twitter.com/danielmloftus/stat

#oceangate #findagrave #twitter

Last updated 1 year ago

Marian Burk Wood · @MarianBWood
365 followers · 682 posts · Server genealysis.social

Bite-sized bios aren't just a way to memorialize ancestors, they're also that show up in search results! Example: Online search for hubby's grandfather resulted in 2 bios I posted, one at and one at . Keeping alive one ancestor at a time. climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.

#Genealogy #cousinbait #wikitree #findagrave #familyhistory

Last updated 1 year ago

AnneTheWriter · @AnneTheWriter1
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Listen To Your Gut Instinct · @PattyHanson
309 followers · 1767 posts · Server mastodon.social

This is a Black history story that insecure white people want to destroy. Take a minute to read about Amos and Violate Fortune.


news.findagrave.com/2023/02/03

#blackhistory #findagrave

Last updated 2 years ago

Mel Campbell · @incrediblemelk
275 followers · 632 posts · Server aus.social

Okay, so my plan to photograph graves today at the cemetery for has hit a hurdle in that the specific graves I wanted to photograph are… hard to find

I have the grave number and a PDF map with the lettered ‘compartments’ of the cemetery, but only the cemetery staff can pinpoint where in the compartment a given grave is.

I had the naive idea that if I had the grave number I could look it up on some interactive map but there’s no such thing. I would have to create one myself in Google Maps, or email the cemetery staff who take a week to email back the directions to the graves.

I thought the whole fucking point of FindAGrave was that it had the cemetery mapped and all I needed to do is add photos where these are missing

But turns out the system is designed for two groups:

– family members looking for 1 particular family grave
– people who just want to wander a cemetery not looking for any grave in particular

Maybe it’s a good thing that in this brutal age of satellite documentation there are still some secret places only humans know.

But I would not have signed up to photograph graves for the site if I had known it would require so much prior research and preparation

#findagrave #familyhistory #LocalHistory #cemetery #melbourne #carlton

Last updated 2 years ago

The Mighty Big Tree · @mightybigtree
131 followers · 46 posts · Server genealysis.social

I've been putting my annual leave to good use, building out families who married into my broader tree. This week I added my Great Uncle Bob's in-laws, only to learn they were influential in the early Australian Labor Party in Victoria. So very interesting! I feel another profile coming on, and .

, do you have extra research time this Christmas/New Year?

#notable #wikitree #findagrave #geneadons

Last updated 2 years ago

The Mighty Big Tree · @mightybigtree
130 followers · 42 posts · Server genealysis.social

Hot on the heels of creating my first Notable profile on for Julius Siede, celebrated 19th century flautist, composer and conductor, I have now contributed to elevating his memorial to Famous status.

There's a discrepancy between the cemetery's recorded birth date of 1828 and other sources that say 1825, but in the absence of a contemporary primary record I'm leaving that be for the moment.

I'm proud of this accomplishment :)

findagrave.com/memorial/203830

#wikitree #findagrave

Last updated 2 years ago

@doodlebugollie Working on it. I want to do a entry for him. He was one of Colorado's silver barons and "Father of Aspen". His death was front page news in Colorado, but can't find him on ship's passenger lists. The local historical society has no further info.

#findagrave

Last updated 2 years ago

Mel Campbell · @incrediblemelk
211 followers · 422 posts · Server aus.social

I’m really looking forward to having enough free time to head down to Melbourne General Cemetery and take some photos of graves for

I signed up to take ‘grave photo requests’ during a deranged hyperfocus session of researching the family who used to live in my dear old house, and I feel bad because I get so many of them but have been so slammed with work this past few months.

Also, I haven’t explored the cemetery since we went there on a school excursion in 199mumblemumble

#findagrave #cemetery #carlton #melbourne #LocalHistory

Last updated 2 years ago

Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
525 followers · 451 posts · Server mindly.social

17, 1901
Rachel , & , is born.

She wrote:
Free: A 's of Living (1961)
Speak to the (1974)
The , the People (1966), Indiana

When I was researching Rachel, I her , which ends with these :

Find A Grave has determined that Rachel does not meet their for being ,
but they are .

Her

#December #otd #peden #indiana #writer #naturalist #rural #farmwife #almanac #country #earth #land #University #author #award #winner #found #findagrave #memorial #words #criteria #famous #wrong #remember

Last updated 2 years ago

KerrieAnne Christian · @steeliegenes
24 followers · 17 posts · Server mastodon.au

@MarianBWood - I just listened to your presentation on . I've been using it for years, however I learned about (new to me) features. As the Wikitree Day presentations will be expiring, do you have a youtube alternative for this presentation or one like it?

#wiktreeday #findagrave

Last updated 2 years ago

The Mighty Big Tree · @mightybigtree
116 followers · 26 posts · Server genealysis.social

@wikitree I find myself relying increasingly on to get a death date hint that unlocks the primary record. When it's a new research subject, Vic BDM may not include enough information in the index to narrow down to the correct person. Combined with information from FG - especially if they are buried with a spouse in the same plot - can be the key that leads to the primary record.

is another invaluable piece in the process.

#findagrave #trove

Last updated 2 years ago

GeniAus (Jill Ball) · @GeniAus
222 followers · 20 posts · Server genealysis.social

I managed to kill off and/or bury many distant cousins yesterday with a combo of

(from 2013) onlineregistry.lawlink.nsw.gov
the ryersonindex.org/
and Google
Going after more today

#findagrave #nswprobateindex #ryersonindex #Genealogy #australia

Last updated 2 years ago

Robin Patterson · @RFPatterson
6 followers · 110 posts · Server mastodon.social

@munchkinstein Hello, Brian! Lots of my were allegedly born near your district. I will never get there to look up records in churches. Thank goodness for and and FreeBMD and
Much of my ancestry is on .fandom.com.
and are among my somewhat elusive surnames of interest - wine merchants around 1800.

#ancestors #FindMyPast #familysearch #findagrave #familypedia #forlong #forlonge #glasgow

Last updated 2 years ago

D. Rench · @drench
17 followers · 21 posts · Server mastodon.social

made a minor change to its HTML so I've updated the FindAGrave Extras browser extension to accommodate: gist.github.com/drench/1bdb134

#findagrave #geneology #userscript

Last updated 2 years ago

Jas Z🐕 · @Iquitoz
14 followers · 51 posts · Server mstdn.social

🐕🪦When it warms up a bit in the afternoon we take Dabi to a cemetery to look for grave stones requested on Find A Grave website/app. Today we struck out but Dabi did enjoy a few helpings of Elk Duds. Always interesting to find old tombstones and wonder about the lives of those that went before us.

findagrave.com

#tombstone #elkduds #spanishshepherd #miniatureamericanshepherd #mas #dogstodon #dogsofmastedon #Dogs #Dabi #cemetery #findagrave

Last updated 2 years ago

Dabi🐕 · @Iquitoz
36 followers · 332 posts · Server mstdn.social

🐕🪦When it warms up a bit in the afternoon we take Dabi to a cemetery to look for grave stones requested on Find A Grave website/app. Today we struck out but Dabi did enjoy a few helpings of Elk Duds. Always interesting to find old tombstones and wonder about the lives of those that went before us.

findagrave.com

#tombstone #elkduds #spanishshepherd #miniatureamericanshepherd #mas #dogstodon #dogsofmastedon #Dogs #Dabi #cemetery #findagrave

Last updated 2 years ago

Feeling like crap because I have over 100 requests and no transport to fill a damn one of them... sorry folks.



#genealogy #ancestry #findagrave

Last updated 7 years ago