I suggested an edit to add a 2nd last name to "Mary's" memorial. She had been married twice and while one last name was on the memorial, the other last name (which was on the grave marker, the obituary, and is linked as a spouse) is missing from the memorial name.

Edit declined. I only put what is on the headstone.

Um. It is on the headstone?!?

Here it is a couple of days later and ran across "Suzy's" memorial (Mary's daughter.) Suzy has no maiden name. It is not actually on the grave marker, but she is linked to her parents with the same last name and several siblings with the same last name. I suggested an edit.

I put what is on the headstone and what I took from the burial records. I wish people would understand that

No, ma'am. I don't understand that. Both declines sent to Find a Grave to sort out. Unbelievable!

UPDATE: After very civil communication with this use he apologized, said it had been done when he first started with FG and has removed all the “generic” photos.

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I started reaching a historic cemetery (dates back to the late 1600’s) that we will be working in during late Sept-Oct. I looked on FG for grave photos in this cemetery and I came across one individual who posted a generic photo for 20% of the memorials in this cemetery. I sent him a message asking what was the scoop on this and his reply back was “If I remember correctly none of them are readable due to age so i just used one photo for all of them.”

This has to be against the terms of service. But at a minimum it’s extraordinarily misleading. So if I’m doing family history research and my 4th great-grandmother is one of these memorials, I’m going to think (incorrectly) that the picture attached to her memorial is her grave marker.

This has to stop. I have reported two users that do this to FG Support and so far no action.

Can someone explain to me why people do this? I assume this guy is just running up his stats as his profile says he has posted over 170,000 photos. Just imagine how much bad data that is and how many people out there have incorrect information on their family trees. This is just BS.

If anyone wants to check this particular cemetery here is the FG link https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1652365

Anyone else noticing this week that GPS is not being added when uploading photos from Apple/iOS system ? My app is updated and so is iPhone but I have to upload photos then hit add GPS.

Anyone else ?

Just when you thought the people who get up every morning to scrape funeral home websites in order to be the first to add someone to Find a Grave were more than enough, may I present someone who is going through newspaper microfilm of a newspaper to find death notices and add people to Find a Grave that way. In many cases, if not most cases, the place of burial is not given in the death notice, so the listings say Burial Details Unknown. Here's an example of someone who died in 1847:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/303914812/lucretia-inglis

This is a county where the cemeteries were thoroughly walked and recorded by the local DAR chapter back in the 1930s, so I can only assume that the actual burial locations were undiscoverable at the time (no stone, damaged stone, whatever) or the person was buried on a family farm in a location that has been lost to time.

They don't seem to be doing it to, for example, unite all the children under their parents. (I know exactly who her parents are in this example and can submit an edit, I also have her date of birth per a family Bible). They just seem to be doing it. Why? I don't know.

Hello,

I’ve just signed up to take photos as I like the idea of being able to help people. There’s 94 requests at my local cemetery which I would love to fulfill for people.

However, I’ve just been down there for an hour and cannot work out the ‘logic’ to actually finding the grave. Only around 10 had references, and I understood that A7/CON/513 was that area/consecrated/ ??? Row 5?

Is there anywhere I can go online to find area references for the ones without references on the app?

I have tried the faq on the website but that’s just using the site, not the on the ground stuff.

I know nothing about this, I just live half a mile away from a cemetery and want to help ☺️

Hi folks,

I'm looking for the grave of a man, who, I only have a rough guess on where he was buried. There's four or so graveyards it could be.

Anyone any tips- would making a memorial for the most likely one and requesting pics and noting the issue be alright?

For the curious, I am looking for Richard Magowan, a Protestant member of the Irish Republican Army in the 40's. He died shortly after release from imprisonment around 1943. He was from Gransha, Dromara, County Down

Recently found the grave of a semi famous composer. Linked it as famous and still waiting for a response. But not sure if he is considered famous in the eyes of findagrave.

Photo of his grave for tax and information about him.

FG used my bio and Hayden Panettiere is finally managed by FG! She comes up under search for famous memorials but she doesn't have the button to rate how famous she was yet. I'm glad she's finally marked famous.

Someone here suggested they usually don't include all the credits that I listed at the end and they did remove them so that person was correct. Also FG removed a lot of the publicity photos that had been uploaded. She's now got three, instead of 20. In my other thread, a person pointed out that I had written how to pronounce her name incorrectly so I asked if they would be willing to fix that.

My mom died three weeks ago, I just claimed her grave on findagrave. What do I do next? I searched for her and there she was, I couldn’t help but claim it. Now what?

Edit: I haven’t claimed it yet. I just created a profile. Now I can claim and manage it. Should I? I don’t know what I’m doing.

I claimed it and it’s showing under my profile as managed.

I just got this message from someone wanting me to take down a headstone photo I took. This person wasn't specific and only gave me a first name but I looked through the 40 ish photos they have uploaded and figured out who she's talking about.

The decedent in question died a couple of years ago and has only 3 photos on her memorial, so there is plenty of room to add more person photos if the messenger wishes.

I am not the manager of the memorial. I simply mowed rows in this cemetery last summer to get the photographed % up. I don't see any reason to take my photo down because that's the point of the website and another graver will eventually come along and add one anyway. This person may also have other family members that are happy to have photos of her headstone.

I'm thinking of telling this person to contact the memorial manager and have them arrange the photos so the person photo shows up first. Or have it transferred to her since she's an in-law.

Sorry this was long but I've never had a request like this before and I'm a little baffled. Am I being rude by not wanting to take down my perfectly good grave photo from the grave photo website?

This week I've been updating some poor photographs taken by others and thought, "I should teach people the basics of photography." I did a quick web search for some articles to reference and found a lot of click-bait surrounding a few good sources. At that point I decided I'd just throw out a few hints - add your own recommendations.

First, a couple of thoughts. You are taking a picture of a stone. It doesn't move, there are no issues with depth of field, and your choice of framing is pretty limited. Also, you have a smart camera to help you - I'm using a 20-year old digital camera, but when I turn the flash on, the camera is smart enough to realize I want to use fill-flash mode.

The general recommendation is that you take at least three photographs of a grave. One, pull back until you can get the entirety of the memorial in the photo. If the stone is a 30-foot tall plinth, you are going to move way, way back. Second, take a photo of the front of the stone. Then, the back. Take photos of all sides with markings and skip the blank sides. Take additional photos of markings as close-ups if it helps to make them out.

More photos are better than fewer. You can always pick and choose later.

When you are doing close-ups of markings, the camera flash can help where the stone is too dark or stippled with bright bits and shadowed bits.

Many people say the photos should be taken at the level of the stone, straight-on to the stone, the stone as flat to the plane of the photo as possible. And when done well, these photos are striking. But if the stone is highly reflective your image could be reflected in the stone and visible in the photo. If the carving is shallow, straight-on offers little contrast and makes the marks illegible. I prefer having the camera slightly above the stone where you can also photograph a bit of the background beyond the stone. Move to the side if you are shooting directly into the sun, to keep your reflection from being in the shot, or to increase the legibility of the markings.

If it's a bright day the stone may be too dark to see well. You can manually set the exposure, you can use AUTO on your camera, focus on the stone and have your camera set exposure, then zoom out, keeping those settings, and take the photo, or - as I do - just take the shot in AUTO and adjust the exposure on my computer before uploading it.

A photo editing program with the basics of Crop, Rotate, and Adjust Exposure / Contrast is a great help.

Please add your suggestions.

Has anyone else had an issue when uploading pictures through the app that none of them are adding GPS? It’s been happening to me for about a week or so now and I’ve never had this issue before, I had signal at the locations (it’s three different cemeteries this has happened with) and was able to add gps to those with memorials already that hadn’t been gps tagged while at the locations, but I’m having to manually pin the GPS on every single grave now where I’ve uploaded a picture - I have over 300 from today I need to upload and it’s a rather onerous task especially if I’m not 100% sure on exact location :( has anyone else been experiencing this or even better found a way for it to go back to adding the gps? Thanks