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My father's middle name is odd so when I saw it connected to a historic family here I started snooping around.
I landed on this strange site called 'Find a Grave" there's no charge for it and the information is so detailed and vast.
I looked up my great grandfather on my father's side. Sure enough there was his big ass monument and then all the relatives around in a photo.
But there was way more. It listed both his parents and also the mother's maiden name. It listed the wife and maiden name, all their children and if remarried the next wife and their children and all of them have birth and death dates and children who married and to who and you have to stay focused or you'll go all over so I staid strickly on the father's side going backward with his father and so forth and all the way to 942 CE and places of birth and death and name changes.
I was shocked how much detail and photos and names and how accurate it is.
My father's middle name is odd so when I saw it connected to a historic family here I started snooping around.
I landed on this strange site called 'Find a Grave" there's no charge for it and the information is so detailed and vast.
I looked up my great grandfather on my father's side. Sure enough there was his big ass monument and then all the relatives around in a photo.
But there was way more. It listed both his parents and also the mother's maiden name. It listed the wife and maiden name, all their children and if remarried the next wife and their children and all of them have birth and death dates and children who married and to who and you have to stay focused or you'll go all over so I staid strickly on the father's side going backward with his father and so forth and all the way to 942 CE and places of birth and death and name changes.
I was shocked how much detail and photos and names and how accurate it is.
I was shocked how much detail and photos and names and how accurate it is.
Find A Grave can be a helpful site, but keep in mind that the information comes from the general public posting it on the site. The website administrators are not responsible for ensuring the information is correct. I have picked up useful information from there, but I have also found many horrendous errors. In most cases, the person who created the memorial is receptive to making corrections, but there are others who slap them up there in a frenzy to have more memorials than anybody else, and could care less whether they are correct or not.
If you find new information on Find A Grave regarding your family, I highly recommend you treat it as a hint and verify it from other sources, before accepting it as gospel facts. Happy hunting!
Find A Grave can be a helpful site, but keep in mind that the information comes from the general public posting it on the site. The website administrators are not responsible for ensuring the information is correct. I have picked up useful information from there, but I have also found many horrendous errors. In most cases, the person who created the memorial is receptive to making corrections, but there are others who slap them up there in a frenzy to have more memorials than anybody else, and could care less whether they are correct or not.
If you find new information on Find A Grave regarding your family, I highly recommend you treat it as a hint and verify it from other sources, before accepting it as gospel facts. Happy hunting!
I has a lot of information already so it was accurate and didn't stray too far from anything. I found it good for what I was doing and then able to look up specifics on some people to verify on other sites.
Find a Grave is awesome. I wish we had more quality sites like that. And yes, it's not just about gravestones. I'd have to wonder about any naysayers and grumps complaining about it.
I've forwarded many additions and corrections. Some got approved quicker than others, but I've never had any resistance to them, and the help has been appreciated. I've seen it get better and better over time.
Last edited by Thoreau424; 09-10-2021 at 08:17 PM..
My father's middle name is odd so when I saw it connected to a historic family here I started snooping around.
I landed on this strange site called 'Find a Grave" there's no charge for it and the information is so detailed and vast.
I looked up my great grandfather on my father's side. Sure enough there was his big ass monument and then all the relatives around in a photo.
But there was way more. It listed both his parents and also the mother's maiden name. It listed the wife and maiden name, all their children and if remarried the next wife and their children and all of them have birth and death dates and children who married and to who and you have to stay focused or you'll go all over so I staid strickly on the father's side going backward with his father and so forth and all the way to 942 CE and places of birth and death and name changes.
I was shocked how much detail and photos and names and how accurate it is.
Find A Grave can be a helpful site, but keep in mind that the information comes from the general public posting it on the site. The website administrators are not responsible for ensuring the information is correct. I have picked up useful information from there, but I have also found many horrendous errors. In most cases, the person who created the memorial is receptive to making corrections, but there are others who slap them up there in a frenzy to have more memorials than anybody else, and could care less whether they are correct or not.
If you find new information on Find A Grave regarding your family, I highly recommend you treat it as a hint and verify it from other sources, before accepting it as gospel facts. Happy hunting!
I stumbled upon Find A Grave when I was searching for information on my father's family. Find A Grave had uploaded his basic information from the VA National Cemetery Administration, and someone had added completely erroneous information about non-existent relatives. I became a member in order to delete that information and add what I knew was correct.
And find a grave really only can verify the grave. I have a set of great grandparents and both of their headstones are wrong. I have no idea what anybody was drinking when they bought the headstones.
My father's middle name is odd so when I saw it connected to a historic family here I started snooping around.
I landed on this strange site called 'Find a Grave" there's no charge for it and the information is so detailed and vast.
I looked up my great grandfather on my father's side. Sure enough there was his big ass monument and then all the relatives around in a photo.
But there was way more. It listed both his parents and also the mother's maiden name. It listed the wife and maiden name, all their children and if remarried the next wife and their children and all of them have birth and death dates and children who married and to who and you have to stay focused or you'll go all over so I staid strickly on the father's side going backward with his father and so forth and all the way to 942 CE and places of birth and death and name changes.
I was shocked how much detail and photos and names and how accurate it is.
This is the genealogy section. Most of us are memorial managers or some how active there by submitting edits when we work on family trees.
You said all the way to 942 CE
I doubt you got to 942CE on find a grave. I'll be shocked if it's valid because you get to a point where it's hard to find records because they don't exist.
I volunteer for FG, going out to take pictures today (woohoo!!). It's a lot better than the competitor, billiongraves.com, which has the fantastic model of "one person takes a picture" and then "another person tries to decipher what is on the stone". However it's easy for anyone to make corrections on BG, not so on FG.
My favorite memorial on FG is for "unknown" name, "unknown" birth and death dates, no burial info, no photo, no family connections. There are several like this. Someone was padding their numbers.
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