I have used Find a Grave for a number of years, but I utilize a different methodology. Most of my colonial ancestors are from Brookfield, MA or Suffield, CT. As an example, I would run a sources report on Brookfield, which will give me a list of all individuals associated with that community. Next I go to Find a Grave and do a search for all cemeteries in Brookfield. Then I compare my list to that of Find a Grave. Once I get a match, I save the photo to my "Cemetery Photos file" and subsequently to the media tab for the specific individual. I do not give credit to the photographer, but I do list the photos as "Private". I never merge data from Ancestry/Find a Grave because that shows Ancestry as the "Source", which they are not. They are the repository. Another factor which many miss is that Ancestry is a Subscription site, while Find a Grave is Free (at least for now). By listing the source as Find a Grave, someone who is not a subscriber can go the the site and get the information for themselves. Just another way of doing things I guess.

I do merge data from ancestry for my FAG memorials, even though many of them are ones that I made myself. The link gives a direct access to the source at ancestry and the ancestry gives a direct link to the memorial. I m pretty sure the links will remain good now that ancestry has purchased it. Since I have many, many people who either changed their names, the spelling or were adopted and are not buried under their birth names, these links are important for future family members to be able to find and connect the two. In my tree I use the name as shown on the birth record or baptismal record or earliest record I can find. I also make notations as to name changes where and when I find them, but many times they are not buried under those names. Plus, in my Canadian families they can have 3 to 5 given names and use any one of them as the daily called name. Over the years they have driven me wild trying to keep track of them in records. A man whose birth record shows Samuel Lawrence James Robert [surname] can show up as Samuel in the first census, as Jim in ensuing census returns as James S. L. for military records and be buried as S. L. James [surname] on his tombstone. One the memorials I make I can put a note born such and such to and name the parents as well as link to the parents, but the links in the tree to ancestry records and then the link to the proper FAG memorial sure makes it easier for newer researchers to find and put together all the records I have struggled over with living descendants to find. The newer researchers will not have the luxury of older descendants of the people to work with that I have had. Annie in Minnesota -----Original Message----- From: rewolf4 <[email protected]> To: ftm-tech <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jan 26, 2014 11:09 pm Subject: [FTM-TECH] Find a Grave I have used Find a Grave for a number of years, but I utilize a different methodology. Most of my colonial ancestors are from Brookfield, MA or Suffield, CT. As an example, I would run a sources report on Brookfield, which will give me a list of all individuals associated with that community. Next I go to Find a Grave and do a search for all cemeteries in Brookfield. Then I compare my list to that of Find a Grave. Once I get a match, I save the photo to my "Cemetery Photos file" and subsequently to the media tab for the specific individual. I do not give credit to the photographer, but I do list the photos as "Private". I never merge data from Ancestry/Find a Grave because that shows Ancestry as the "Source", which they are not. They are the repository. Another factor which many miss is that Ancestry is a Subscription site, while Find a Grave is Free (at least for now). By listing the source as Find a Grave, someone who is not a subscriber can go the the site and get the information for themselves. Just another way of doing things I guess. ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message