As a findagrave volunteer photo taker, I have been UTL stones. When that happens, I annotate in the "problems" category so that the requester and anyone else looking at it knows what the problem was. If I have the inclination, I may do some research locally to help identify the proper cemetery. More often, the burial was identified in the wrong cemetery. Here in WI we have a situation not generally found elsewhere. We have no "townships". What you would call a township is "Town of XXXX". Persons get village, city, and community cemeteries mixed up thinking the "Town" cemetery is for the communinty. Example, the Town of Black Creek may have a cemetery and the community called Black Creek also. The cemeteries are within 3 miles of each other. As to unmarked graves, there are many. I for one have put one of my ancestors on findagrave knowing the cemetery no longer exists. To this day, Germans reuse the cemeteries, and when they do, the old stones are tossed to the fencelines. My 4xgrandmother died 3 Jul 1854 in the port at Hamburg, Germany and was buried in the hospital cemetery 8 Jul. From an 1856 city map of Hamburg, I was able to locate the cemetery and by satalite today know it's sitting under a row of buildings. However, I have paper proof (Civil record of death) she WAS BURIED in the Kurhaus Cemetery so I've put her memorial on findagrave. Check it out: search SPIEGELBERG, death year 1854, location Germany. You can see why I did it. But back to the unmarked graves -- She was buried there but you won't find a marker. Darleen Chipman
HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld Darleen, You wrote: "As a findagrave volunteer photo taker, I have been UTL stones. When that happens, I annotate in the "problems" category so that the requester and anyone else looking at it knows what the problem was." I don't remember seeing anything on a fag page that would relate to your "problems" category. Do you have an example of a page with "problems" identified? Maybe I'm just missing something that's been there all along. Nel