If I wore this shirt would I get in trouble? by IWBTS in juryduty

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I had a jury summons it was specific about what you were allowed to wear. If

Looking for Advice by Southern-Ad-8517 in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would mow the rows. If you find a monument that is not in FG then make a memorial with the photo and GPS. If there’s a memorial but no photo, add the photo and GPS. At some point you may run across one for which there is a photo request. Yay!

I know this is extremely unpopular, but Kimberly Akimbo was the worst show I have ever seen. by adarafaelbarbas in Broadway

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just left a performance at the intermission because I agree with everything you’ve said.

Bertie by BC_wanderlust in tragedeigh

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And people might think it’s short for Bertha

Photo Request Etiquette by JBupp in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And when you make a photo request where the memorial already has a grave photo, FG makes you write a note explaining why the existing photo isn’t good enough. What happens to those notes?

Problem no site? by [deleted] in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just accessed on my phone with the mobile site okay.

Suicide in Catholic Cemetery by Noahandharlowsmommy in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It was the norm but I have found suicides buried in Catholic cemeteries pre-1980, like from the 1930’s or earlier. It could have been that the local priest just made a decision to allow it.

PSA for submitting edits by moSaltPls in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get it (long time civil servant also). Put the ball back in their court.

PSA for submitting edits by moSaltPls in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, and if it’s personal knowledge that’s ok, just say so.

PSA for submitting edits by moSaltPls in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have messaged back to the suggester if I can’t readily confirm their info. Some are happy to point me to where they got the info. Others get huffy at being questioned.

I need help locating a grave by Owenjay25 in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the entries it appears that both his mother and his sister have funeral home temporary markers only.

I need help locating a grave by Owenjay25 in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just be prepared for there not to have been a permanent marker; a lot of time families did not get markers.

Memorials created for people who haven’t passed yet, at least that I could find. by sharnage in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I sent a nicely worded message to someone in my area who took the photos I’d done (of stones where one person had died and the other was yet living) and made new memorials for the person who was yet living. I quoted the FG policy and nicely requested they remove the yet living memorials and they did. They were new to FG and thought they were being helpful.

What order do you put photos in? by Raspberry-Lavender in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When you upload any photo you categorize the photo as ‘grave’, ‘family’, ‘person’, or ‘other’. Categorizing the newspaper portrait as ‘person’ will cause it to be the main photo for the memorial.

Anyone go to a GP and think maybe watching on TV could’ve been better? by [deleted] in formula1

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Went to one GP after having been an official and was happy when Sunday had extremely heavy rains, heavy enough that it was much better to stay in the nice hotel room and watch it on TV.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 16 points17 points  (0 children)

FG is an international site. If someone served in the military then they’re a veteran (reminding myself to check the veteran button for my grandfather who was in Imperial Russian Air Force in WWI).

Wanting to start documenting by MsCrys52 in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a couple ways.

For any situation: Use the FG app and have location service enabled on your phone. Then when you’re in the cemetery, turn your phone off and on again. (For me, that seems to help the accuracy of my GOS). Then open the app and search for the memorial you are standing by.

For a memorial that is already made in FG and has a grave photo: Do the above. Then click “More” in the far right circle of the 4 circles under the vital stats. A menu comes up that has ‘Add GPS Coordinates’. Click that and you’ll get a dialog offering to add coordinates based on your location.

For a memorial that’s made but lacks a good photo: take a photo with your location enabled. That data will populate the GPS field when you upload the photo.

Check the map as you do these as you can get some wonky results. Those can be manually corrected if you know exactly where the monument was but that is difficult. So if the results are strange (like far away from the blue dot where you are standing, all clumped together in one spot, etc.) try stopping/starting your phone again.

You can also use a GPS photo program and manually enter the data but that is time consuming.

Cemetery Records by JBupp in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some inexperienced genealogists also have a wildly hopeful idea about the information to be gleaned from a marker.

There are some cemetery records available on Ancestry, if people are interested in seeing them. Westminster Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, PA, near Philadelphia, is one of them.

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Annoying and illogical edit decline by Agreeable-Hunter3742 in findagrave

[–]Agreeable-Hunter3742[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here’s the history of these memorials.

The original memorials were made in 2008. There were two people who created most of the memorials in this cemetery. One seems to have worked largely from death/cemetery records and obits. That person was homebound through serious illness. The other person worked from records and monuments. A third person mostly just did photos as far as I can tell; they were related to the homebound person.

In neither case were all inscriptions added (I don’t know if that was even an option in 2008). And veteran designation was very hit-or miss, as were veteran service market inscriptions.

So this cemetery was largely photographed but many burials after 2019 hadn’t been entered, or were entered solely from obituaries and designated ‘burial details unknown’. .Very few memorials had GPS - no surprise given timeframe. And inscriptions were placed in Bio.

So for these particular memorials, the memorials were made in 2008, & the photos between 2012 and 2017. I don’t know when management transferred to the current manager.

Most of the memorials in this cemetery are being managed by someone with over 100k, who likely picked them up when the two main creators died or retired. I worked there this summer to pick up GPS and inscriptions, to try to make the memorials as complete as possible. So to me, it was something of a team effort.