Visit at #grandma 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 #FindAGrave and when I asked where the additional information came from, I received a scan from the cemetery book with his record. #genealogy

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

Props to Daniel Loftus @thedanielsgenealogy for catching Find A Grave entries for at least 2 persons on the #OceanGate sub and notifying #FindAGrave so those entries could be taken down. Many calls on #Twitter for the posters to be permanently banned from Find A Grave, and for better oversight by their corporate owners.
https://twitter.com/danielmloftus/status/1671507041171513345

#Genealogy Bite-sized bios aren't just a way to memorialize ancestors, they're also #CousinBait that show up in search results! Example: Online search for hubby's grandfather resulted in 2 bios I posted, one at #WikiTree and one at #FindAGrave. Keeping #FamilyHistory alive one ancestor at a time. https://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2023/05/bite-sized-bios-show-up-in-search.html

When genealogists see gravestones on a Hollywood set, we just have to check where a scene was filmed. 😏

#CaptainAmericaNewWorldOrder... meet #FindAGrave.😄


#CaptainAmerica #Marvel #AnthonyMackie #MCU #Genealogy #Cemeteries #NowFilming #Geneadons #Genealogists

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

#BlackHistory
#FindAGrave

https://news.findagrave.com/2023/02/03/fortunes-remembered-in-jaffreys-old-burying-ground/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-Feb-2023

Okay, so my plan to photograph graves today at the cemetery for #FindAGrave 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

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #cemetery #Melbourne #Carlton

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 #notable profile coming on, #wikitree and #findagrave.

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

Hot on the heels of creating my first Notable profile on #Wikitree for Julius Siede, celebrated 19th century flautist, composer and conductor, I have now contributed to elevating his #FindAGrave 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 :)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203830152/julius-siede

@doodlebugollie Working on it. I want to do a #Findagrave 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.

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

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

#cemetery #Carlton #Melbourne #LocalHistory

#December 17, 1901
#OTD Rachel #Peden, #Indiana #Writer & #Naturalist, is born.

She wrote:
#Rural Free: A #Farmwife's #Almanac of #Country Living (1961)
Speak to the #Earth (1974)
The #Land, the People (1966), Indiana #University #Author #Award #Winner

When I was researching Rachel, I #Found her #FindAGrave #Memorial, which ends with these #Words:

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

#Remember Her

@MarianBWood - I just listened to your #WiktreeDay presentation on #Findagrave. 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?

@wikitree I find myself relying increasingly on #FindAGrave 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.

#Trove is another invaluable piece in the process.

I managed to kill off and/or bury many distant cousins yesterday with a combo of
#FindaGrave
#NSWProbateIndex (from 2013) https://onlineregistry.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/content/search-probate-notice
the #RyersonIndex https://ryersonindex.org/
and Google
Going after more today
#Genealogy #Australia

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

#findagrave made a minor change to its HTML so I've updated the FindAGrave Extras browser extension to accommodate: https://gist.github.com/drench/1bdb13461b383a004951c4b94246cbcb?permalink_comment_id=3204728#gistcomment-3204728

#geneology #userscript

🐕🪦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 #cemetery #Dabi #dogs #dogsofmastedon #dogstodon #MAS #miniatureamericanshepherd #spanishshepherd #elkduds #tombstone

https://www.findagrave.com

🐕🪦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 #cemetery #Dabi #dogs #dogsofmastedon #dogstodon #MAS #miniatureamericanshepherd #spanishshepherd #elkduds #tombstone

https://www.findagrave.com

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

#FindAGrave
#Ancestry
#Genealogy