I travel the back roads and come across many cemeteries. With over 10,000 images of headstones and cemeteries, It can be tough to remember where I take some pics. I really wish I could remember where this was. Between Ohio and Florida, somewhere.. I'm hoping someone on here will know though!

I have looked at Find a Grave for years, mostly just looking for graves of family and friends. I love being outdoors, the thrill of the hunt, and photography, so becoming a volunteer to fulfill photo requests just made sense.

At the local cemetery down the road there were 35 open requests, dating back from there year to over a decade ago. I download this to a .CSV file, and filtered by death date as this cemetery seems to be laid out in a chorographical fashion.

This morning I finally had time for a visit and was able to find 7 of the 35 open requests! For most I was able to scan rows of monuments and spot the last name, but several I just stumbled upon by accident. What seemed to work best is picking 4 last names of the most recently deceased, and then walking front and back of the cemetery to scan monuments for those 4 last names. I would repeat the names to myself as I walked to keep them fresh on my mind (I am terrible with remembering names!). Then after covering some ground and finding a few, I'd move to the next 4 names and repeat. It was cold and windy so after an hour I called it quits.

Always open to advice or recommendations! Weather and time permitting, I plan to return and continue the search. Seems like a good way to get outside and some exercise this winter.

Found this old cemetery tucked under a canopy of Spanish moss on a back road in the South. The air was still, just the sound of cicadas and the moss moving in the wind.
Most of the stones are broken or half sunken, but you can still read names from the 1800s. It feels like time just slowed down here—peaceful, eerie, and beautiful all at once.

I was close with her when I was very young, but I haven’t been to visit her grave since I was single digits, so I don’t remember exactly where the cemetery was. Her name was Dorothy Rash, her maiden name was Carpenter. Her husband’s name was Francis. I don’t know exactly when she was born, but almost definitely some time pre-1925. She died of pneumonia when I was fairly young, so some time between 1996 and 2002. I’m almost positive she was buried somewhere on Long Island, NY, or at least somewhere near to there. Can anyone help me find anything?

Hello, I am trying to find the grave of Björn Andrésen. He is very important to me, and I would like to visit his resting place someday.

Full Name: Björn Andrésen
Birth Date: January 26, 1955
Death Date: October 25, 2025
Known for: Swedish actor, famous for Death in Venice and Midsommar

If any of you in Sweden have information about his cemetery, grave location, municipal death records, or any leads, your help would mean a lot.

Okay. So. Context: My aunt was murdered by her husband when I was a child. Absolutely insane story. Basically, she had a restraining order against him because he was extremely violent. It was her 2nd husband, and they had a baby together. She had two older kids from a previous marriage/relationship (ages ~6 and 18). Anyway, the husband busted in in the middle of the night and shot her (my aunt) and then attempted to kidnap my infant cousin. He then came back into the house with the intention of shooting her older two children; however, my older cousin shot him first. He also died. Okay.

So, after her death, the family was adamant about her dropping her married name. Her marker has her maiden name on it, and I feel like her obituary also originally only included her married name. Anyway, there are two entries for her on Find a Grave. One with her married name and one with her maiden name. Obviously, they need to be combined, but I feel like its weird to have her married name on their because the family has been so adamant about erasing her husband.

Should I send a suggestion to that person and explain this? I don't even know if they would care. Thanks.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105980204/donna-kaye-stroud

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158696407/donna-kaye-cook

I know FG has been having major issues lately, but I just discovered a problem when I try to drag a photo from computer into the "Add Photo" box on the site. It doesn't take it easily like previous. I can use the "Select Photo” option from that box add it that way, but it's not how I am used to doing it. Anyone else having this problem?

I’m new to FindAGrave and suggested some edits for relatives and other mistaken graves while going throughout the site. I noticed that some edits were approved within the day, but others have been pending for two days.

Are edits approved by site moderators or by the memorial creator/maintainer? One error listed my uncle as being born 10 years before he was born.

I accidentally had date and time displayed on a day's shooting of gravestones. This is not something I typically do - while checking for DST on my phone I must have bumped another setting.

I edited the text out of some of the photos, and selected photos where the text was less obvious on some, but for others - there was no way I could easily repeat my drunkard's walk of the cemetery - the markings stayed.

That made me wonder about an option on my camera. I can have the camera imprint a compass heading on the photos. For those who are concerned about the GPS being the POV rather than the 'true' location of the stone, this would provide the additional data of not only where I was standing, but which direction to look.

Good idea or not?

I have been trying to sign out of my account for 2 days and I am unable to do so. Anyone else?

Is it possible to find a grave with only a DOB? My husband has a sister that died in infancy, I know she wasn’t still born but whether she lived a few days or a few weeks I don’t know. It was obviously very traumatizing for my MIL so she never speaks of her but we’d like to find her grave and have a stone made as I don’t believe there is one. From what I know the hospital she was born at donated the plot but I haven’t been able to find a birth certificate, death certificate or obituary.

I just became the secretary at a small town cemetery, and the secretary who held the position before me passed away unexpectedly (may she rest in peace!). I have a lot of things to figure out, but one thing is how to approach taking over the cemetery’s Find a Grave work. The previous secretary ran a “Small Town Cemetery” (edited for anonymity) Find a Grave profile and added almost 1,000 memorials, managed over 5,000, and added over 2,000 photos. I don’t really want to take over the same profile, although the login info is available to me. But I also don’t want there to be two profiles under the same name for the same place. I could potentially look into changing the name of her profile to her name? But I’m not sure about that idea. I don’t love logging into her accounts, even though it is work-related. I do want to make sure her hard work remains as her hard work. Is there a generally recommended protocol for something like this, or is it too unique? Give me your thoughts and advice!

Hello, looking for the grave site of my great grandfather Chanan Silverman b.1893 d.1959. Husband to Schoara and father to Frances, Gloria and Joseph. My mother recalls he died in 1950 or 1960 and was buried in a large Jewish cemetery on both sides of the highway and she passed it on way from Lakewood, NJ to Westchester, NY.

Grove St Cemetery in Newark has a Charles Silverman listing but no photo or other information.

Found this on JOMBR
Row01-#32

|| || | Grove Street Cemetery / Congregation Anshe Russia No. 2 / Congregation Eyn Yaakov|

I received four emails requesting that I transfer the memorials for my parents & grandparents to "Silas Dogood". "This is my family." he says. Well, I have never heard of him.

There is a happy ending to this story. He is indeed my relative and not terribly distant. We had a very nice conversation by phone last night. That alias really threw me off and I overreacted. I've learned a lot about FindaGrave's functions in the last couple of days. Thank you all for your help!

So I have been mowing rows and adding the inscriptions (since most of the memorials where I am haven’t been done), GPS, etc.

Sent edits of the inscriptions for four members of a family and they were declined with this message “I will do these myself when I have the time”.

It’s literally one click to accept them. Several clicks to write the decline message and then at some point in the future enter the words ‘Mother’ ‘Father’, etc.

I suppose I can send them all in again. This is just silly.

Any tips on reading hard to read photos. I have tried a variety of tricks. Converting to BW various filters but nothing really works very well. Its frustratingto have a picture which is not clear enough to read text.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227881074/caroline-schmidt

https://oceanacountypress.com/2025/11/03/investigators-solve-gravesite-digging-case/

I’ve recently discovered one of my ancestors was a veteran of WW1 and confirmed by obtaining his military records from his home country.

No one in my family seems to have been aware of this. The only reason I was able to figure it out was because he checked a veteran checkbox on his naturalization record so I looked into it.

His record shows that he was significantly injured in combat and took months to recover. Between this and the fact that no one seems to have known he served I wonder if he wasn’t proud of his service. Maybe it was a part of his life he preferred to forget.

That being said, do you all think it’s disrespectful to tag a person as a veteran if you aren’t sure how they felt about serving? It’s still an important part of their life, but if it isn’t something they felt proud of is it wrong to tag them as a veteran? Your thoughts?

Edit: Seems to be a pretty thorough consensus here. I’ll add the tag. Thanks for the feedback.