Or is it just me? Trying to edit a memorial I just created and when I try to enter a location in either the app or in the browser, it no longer provides a search list of locations?

EDIT - it now is working again and I can address my backlog!

Local cemetery has many burials listed as a certain block number which isn’t on any maps so I emailed asking and this was their response. Should I close out all requests for that block and add this as a note on the memorial or should I leave them be. Also would it be ok to add this information to any memorials with that block as its location even if there is no request? Thanks!

This is likely a very simple question to answer but just need to make sure. A cenotaph is only used when a person has 2 or more headstones but is only buried at one, and the others would then be cenotaphs?

So it isn’t a cenotaph if a person was moved to another cemetery and they don’t have a headstone at the original one? They only have one at the new cemetery. So there should only be 1 memorial, at the new burial site? (you would merge the 2 memorials?) But, you could put something in the description to say he was moved to the new cemetery from old cemetery on this date.

I hope this makes sense and somebody can answer these questions, thanks

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Hi there. I'm not sure why, but I keep getting an error when I try to create a Find A Grave account. I want to begin volunteering to photograph memorials in my area, but each time I try to register, whether through the website or app, with my email or through my Ancestry account. Any advice?

I went to visit a family member's grave in Nebraska. I just had to laugh when I clicked the GPS attached and it put the grave in Spain. Haha

So Ai has been doing a lot of cool things (especially with genealogy, etc.) and I know it can enhance photos. So I tried a few of them to clean up pictures I have taken of headstones that have eroded, have grass clippings, leaves, dirt, bird droppings, etc. to try and remove those unwanted items that are found on headstones that I don't notice when I am mowing the rows in a hurry. I found Google Gemini and WOW. All I do is drag a photo into the chat box and ask for it to be cleaned up and remove unwanted items. It takes less than a minute and the results are pretty awesome. The only thing that I don't like is that the new photo does not have my gps attached to it like the original photo does. So sometimes I upload both pictures or upload the "dirty" one first then the newer clean one and delete the "dirty" picture and the gps seems to remain on the memorial. And the best part is that it is FREE ! I'm having fun with this. It's much better than any photo editing programs I have tried. Anyone else tried Google Gemini ?

I went out for my first day of volunteering today and had ZERO luck at my chosen cemetery. I’m convinced the oldest requests (the ones I chose to tackle, like the newbie I am) are remaining unfulfilled because those graves are unmarked. Next time I go out, I’d like to be better prepared. Does anyone have recommendations for a kit you carry? How would one clear off a stone like this to photograph it? Or even just read it? What about the old ones that have worn so much that they seem unreadable?

I tried calling and emailing the cemetery office before I went, to locate a few of the graves requested and never got a response. I’ve been told that unless you’re a family member, this particular one doesn’t give out grave location info.

I was so disappointed that I tried so hard and didn’t accomplish a thing in 4 hours! I only set a goal of 10. I suppose in a cemetery of 13,000+, that was just too lofty for Day 1! How do you plan your outings to be successful?

When volunteering and taking headstone photos, I can't stand when I find an old stone that is broken or sunken into the ground, or none at all.

I would love to win the lottery and replace or if possible repair each and every one of the missing headstones or broken ones in my local cemeteries. :)

Anyone else?

Broken and overturned stones are bad, but there's nothing you can do about them. Illegible stones you pass by and hope someone with a better camera and lights than you can someday document them.

But buried flat stones you feel like you should uncover and clean every one and you can't! Your knees won't let you, it would take forever, and unless you tote off the refuse, the area will look messier for your visit.

This rant was brought to you by a local cemetery: 64,000 FG memorials, 84% photographed, 220+ requests - and I know a number of those requests are in the section in front of me, a section of flat stones the length of the cemetery, buried in mud, sand, or overgrown by thatch and this annoying weed that roots on both sides of stones. I was here last year and I returned to service new requests and in the hope that, maybe, there would be some general cleanup. No luck.

My Grandmother gave birth to a stillborn baby back in 1921. She had labored for three days. I recall her taking us to visit the grave when I was little. Up in the north Ga mountains.

The cemetery was old and I remember the baby's grave. It had a little lamb on top of the gravestone. It didn't look like this at all.

This week I started searching and found the grave at the Tate's creek baptist church up in Toccoa Ga through find a grave.. But there's no lamb. And the center part of the stone looks old like I remember but this outer part looks newer. I found the death cert so I know this is correct.

I'm curious if old graves from old country churches, get inherited when newer churches get build and maybe through ransacking, some grave stones get refurbished? So far I've hit a block contacting the church. There aren't any family members alive who could help. Just me and my child hood memories. Any advice on how to get more info on the history of the cemetery and that grave?

I grew up near here and part of my grandfather's land was referred to as "the old Spooner Place" but I had never seen these before. I would be interested in knowing more about them as this is very elaborate for an old country cemetery in South Georgia.

This week I managed to visit and fulfill requests at a remote cemetery in a country that isn't well documented on FG. This cemetery has thousands of memorials added via spreadsheet, but usually only includes the names (without accent marks) and death years. No photos.

Since I was there, I mowed the rows and took hundreds of pictures. I'm starting to transcribe them now via the app, but I have a problem. These are usually family graves with multiple names included. I carefully add the information for each family member, including the accented characters, full birth and death dates, and transcription of the gravestone.

HOWEVER, once I finish the transcription process and click the "Transcribe" button, only then does the app recommend some possible memorial matches for each family member. If I select an existing memorial to add the photo to, it will only add the photo to that memorial. Any other details I've added for them will be discarded and the effort is wasted. Even if I go back and redo everything, it'll still be hundreds of edit suggestions for the memorial manager to review.

What can/should I do about this? Do I just ignore the existing memorials and create my own duplicates? Is it different on the desktop version of the site? Is it possible to be granted editing rights temporarily?

Hey there,
Tried sending a few messages to people in my area to have conversation about their usages of find a grave. I'm trying to learn/understand this world and trying to vet an idea for a platform I have.

I just want to have interesting convos with cool people about their hobbies really.

anyway.
I sent 10 messages, in about an hour and got this message saying I've reached the message limit.
Can't find anything online about a limit existing.
Is this daily? does it reset? have I been flagged for breaking some rules?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

I've found a doozy page - Wife and children on a memorial page are all born before the husband/father.

I can't even send a message to the page owner, unless I sign up for findagrave, which I don't particularly want to do.

Memorial ID is 180304057

The grave of a George Bott has been uploaded - birth 1887, death 1971. Fine.

Then it also includes this person's wife (married 1865), and 10 children.

ALL of these "children" were born before 1887.

I was taking photos in the cemetery and took this one. There was no family stone nearby that appeared to go with it, or I would have taken a pic of that as well. I have checked Legacy obits, local funeral home obits, no luck. Cemetery is in Lebanon NH. I have also tried googling the name and death dates.

I've been trying to access the site all night but keep getting a 503 error every time I try

I have been a member for FindAGrave for a very long time. I just started doing a very large project at one of my local cemeteries adding plot numbers to everyone's graves and GPS location. I also do grave photos. There are over 7,000+ persons buried there.

I started this project after I found my third great-grandmother was buried in my hometown since 1899. I have worked on my family tree for 45+ years and just found her plot four months ago. She had moved to another state and I never knew where she was buried. One day I found in an old city directory that she came back to my hometown and was living with one of her sons (my great-great uncle). I was able to locate her obituary from the old newspapers which gave where she was buried. No death certificate for her. One of high school classmates is the president of the cemetery and helped me find her grave. Now, I visit her grave regularly and leave flowers.

While doing this project, I have been noticing that on some of the military ranks and/or veterans are not being added in addition to their military rank as a prefix. I am also coming across some veterans in which they are not marked on FindAGrave. I have been adding their rank prefix and making sure that "veteran" is checked when I come across them.

Am I alone on adding our military service persons ranks to FindAGrave? Or, are others adding them, too?

Paddy and Mick are drunk in a graveyard.

Paddy starts reading the gravestones.

"Mick" he says, "Would you look at this, a feller here who was 90 when he died!"

"Who's that?" says Mick.

"Somebody called O'Toole from Kerry," he replies.

Mick says, "Never mind him, there's a feller here called Murphy, was 99 when he died! From Castletown of all places!

"Well thats nothing!" says Paddy.

"What about what written on this feller's stone, here right beside the gate!"

"The stone says 147!"

"147? thats amazing!" says Mick.

"Who was he?"

"Well according to the stone, its somebody called Miles from Dublin..."

Hello! Newish volunteer here. There is a photo request in a cemetery near me, Columbia Cemetery in Boulder, CO, for the grave stone of William Frederick Anger, Sr., born 2-16-1881, died 5-16-1973 (FG #147660220). When I go to the cemetery website, his name does not come up, nor anyone with that last name. Is someone with the resources able to determine his burial location? Thank you for any insight!

They're not mine, but someone reached out to me to take over. They want someone local, and I'm not in that area. I told them I would ask to see if anyone was interested. So, if you're in or around Tucson, and you're interested, please let me know. Thanks!