Dear group, I have entered a few hundred photos on findagrave.com and if you were the original contributor, whether it be for information or photos, you can change your information. All you have to do is click on the photo you submitted, it comes up and then there is a "delete this photo" option. It's as simple as that. I love findagrave.com and they are a very helpful and useful website. Granted, they might have their problems, but so does every other website I've used. To try and give them a bad name in order to promote your own website isn't a very nice thing to do. There's plenty of room and plenty of information for all of us to enter to be able to utilize any and all websites available, whether it be for Kansas, New York, or the world. . Melissa Kansas City, KS keukakid16522@pngusa.net wrote: David & others, thank you for the insight into Find-A-Grave. I mentioned to another researcher I was working with on a mutual family that I had some cemetery photos. She asked me if I would consider putting them on Find-A-Grave. Granted you do need to use a pass word each time you visit. I'm sure this prevents anyone arbitrarily entering information without contacting the person whom uploaded the information. Of course, that doesn't prevent the original uploader from entering the wrong information, but as Dorothy pointed out, you can contact that person. I do find it cumbersome to use, but have added some 100+ photos over the last few weeks with many more to go. I didn't realize I couldn't go back and change them as necessary. I just became aware of the nygravestones.org site and will look onto that venue as a way of giving researchers information, and it may work even better. Bruce > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:07:34 -0700 > From: "W. David Samuelsen" > Subject: [NYCHENAN] dark secret about findagrave.com > To: Chenango Co NY > Message-ID: <475BB056.7030008@sampubco.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > There is a dark secret about findagrave.com > > I found out from a group who tried to replace lousy photos with better > photos. I still have that message informing me of the problem. > > Findagrave.com will not allow it. Not at all. > > Not even to update the information already there. Like replacing the > incomplete dates with complete dates. > > newyorkgravestones.org allow it - just contact the administrator direct > and the photo will be replaced, no question asked. Even to add new > updated information. > > Better features are at newyorkgravestones site - quick searches and > locating specific information in different ways. > > Even to find a married daughter whose married name is not known to you. > Searches are available in different ways. > > Findagrave.com is more on data rather than photos. NewYorkgravestones > has BOTH, every time. > > W. David Samuelsen, > New York Gravestone Photo Project > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 05:52:21 -0800 (PST) > From: dorothy baker > Subject: Re: [NYCHENAN] dark secret about findagrave.com > To: nychenan@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <747298.22940.qm@web56607.mail.re3.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Not completely true. I cannot "replace someone else's information with > correct information", but I can contact the originator of the information > and he/she can correct it. I've done it with my own stuff when I finally > came up with a complete date, and I have contacted an originator and it is > up to them to fix it. As for pictures--I don't know--I am not computer > literate enough to know how to send one, but I'll learn one of these days. > > Dorothy > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 14:20:48 -0500 > From: "calamityjane" > Subject: [NYCHENAN] dark secrets findagrave > To: > Message-ID: <000a01c83a98$9bac27d0$fe85f640@TheGrove> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Findagrave: I'd like to let people know that you can not always trust > what you see there. Several months ago I found a listing for a young > man in my family who was Alive and Well. > I tried to contact the person who put the information there but the > email came back saying it was an invalid address. > I did not consider it funny, nor did the young man who it was about. > evelyn > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:05:55 -0800 (PST) > From: dorothy baker > Subject: Re: [NYCHENAN] dark secrets findagrave > To: nychenan@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <344140.87381.qm@web56609.mail.re3.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi Evelyn: > > Oh, I daresay that is not funny, but sounds to me like the person that > put it on thought it was hilarious, and a joke. This could happen on > any site--rootsweb, ancestry, you name it--we are all at the mercy of > someone putting information on line. Hopefully I have not done anything > to make someone mad at me. > > Dorothy > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYCHENAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message