We all have to start somewhere, and I think that most people who post at Find a Grave have good intentions but not necessarily the correct procedure.    If I find something that's wrong I'll send a short email with the correction and a "thank you" for  their time.  If they use info from the cemetery records/gravestones themselves, those may be incorrect at the start.     Maybe I'm wrong, but I appreciate the wrong stuff too because sometimes it supplies me with somewhere else to look and, just maybe, I'll find what's correct or missing for my files.     I'd be thrilled to find something, right or wrong, on my maternal grandmother.  She was one of a set of triplets left in a St. Louis orphanage at birth.  No first or last names, no birth dates; nothing to go on.  She used different given and maiden names on all three of her daughters' birth certificates.  If a name caught her fancy, she used it.  Her husband's name is the only thing that's consistent on them; she even played around with various combinations of birth dates.    Cathy Champion in Fenton, MO 63026 (near St. Louis)   "When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction" - Mark Twain ________________________________ From: "Dee Dee King, Certified Genealogist" <king@forensicgenealogyservices.com> To: Erica Voolich <voolich@gmail.com> Cc: TGF <TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, October 14, 2012 7:59:23 PM Subject: Re: [TGF] Find-A-Grave This is what happens when folks care more about being in the game, than in doing the right thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erica Voolich" <voolich@gmail.com> To: "Genealady" <genealady@gmail.com> Cc: "TGF" <TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:42:08 PM Subject: Re: [TGF] Find-A-Grave Dana My condolences on your loss.  That is terrible. I thought the family should be the "owner" of the page on a person if there was one available. If you don't want your brother up, I think you should ask them to take it down. Erica On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Genealady <genealady@gmail.com> wrote: > I was shocked to find someone had put my brother on findagrave when he > died last week. The information was taken from the newspaper and he was NOT > buried. He was cremated and we don't even have his ashes yet. I am still > sorely tempted to ask them to remove it. Erroneous and disrespectful in my > opinion. > > Dana > > On Oct 14, 2012, at 10:21 AM, "Donna McR" <donna316@tx.rr.com> wrote: > > > Silly me.  Until recently, I thought the postings on Find-a-Grave were > > sourced from literally reading the gravestones and/or taking photographs. > > In the absence of these, I thought at least some evidence was available > that > > the person was buried there---by cemetery records or at least by personal > > knowledge that the grave actually existed in that place.  Any dates > attached > > to the posting I thought were sourced with one or all of the above. > > > > However, lately I have been seeing graves posted, along with birth and > death > > dates and information about immediate family, that are just incorrect. > The > > erroneous information just happens to match some incorrect information > also > > passed around on internet family trees. > > > > These persons are posting **as fact** information that has no basis of > > proof.  It weakens the credibility of the whole project. > > > > So frustrating. > > > > Warmest Regards, > > > > Donna > > > > > > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to > professional level work. 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