Post by BuckSkin on Feb 29, 2024 15:19:38 GMT
Do any of you guys frequent or participate in the Find-a-Grave site ?
The site itself, like Amazon, has grown so huge as to have smothered the life out of anything like it; so, if you are seeking such family-tree connections, it is where you will end up.
I frequently find myself there posting photos of various people to be viewed on their "memorial" page.
Thankfully, any member of the site can post photos to any memorial without having to wait for approval from said memorial's "manager".
Often, I will have one or more good photos of some guy and his horse or dog or tractor or prize-winning razorback hog and I will discover he has kicked the bucket and I will then post said photos on his Find-a-Grave memorial page.
Not that I do such for any recognition, I have actually had people seek me out and thank me for this as they never knew such photos existed and would have never seen them otherwise.
One huge frustration I keep running into is that - very surprisingly - there are many who create memorials purely to add to their number count; the creator automatically becomes the "boss"of that memorial and any subsequent adding of information must be "approved" by them.
These people will create thousands upon thousands of memorials, completely lacking of obvious and easily available connection information, and just sit on them and never respond to "suggested edits"; then, relatives and people who actually know the facts and details about the deceased run against this stone wall and can't include information and connections that they know for fact; and thus, others seeking that information never get to see it.
I have "suggested edits" that I have submitted many months ago that have never and never will be responded to and acted upon.
These memorial "hoarders" will get a lock on a whole family graveyard full of people that they don't even know and never even make connections to the most obvious and all of those connections be right there in that same graveyard and all controlled by them.
Many times, they will create a memorial for a husband and a wife, both buried side-by-side and sharing a stone, and never take the two seconds it takes to fill in the "Spouse" and forever connect them for those seeking that information in the future; likewise for the parents, children, grand-parents, and so forth, many times all right there in a single cemetery; and, so far as their memorial page, it is as if they have no family tree whatsoever.
Thankfully, there are a lot of good detail oriented people creating memorials who do a fine job; often, I may submit a suggested edit to them and it be acted upon before I go to bed that night.
The site itself, like Amazon, has grown so huge as to have smothered the life out of anything like it; so, if you are seeking such family-tree connections, it is where you will end up.
I frequently find myself there posting photos of various people to be viewed on their "memorial" page.
Thankfully, any member of the site can post photos to any memorial without having to wait for approval from said memorial's "manager".
Often, I will have one or more good photos of some guy and his horse or dog or tractor or prize-winning razorback hog and I will discover he has kicked the bucket and I will then post said photos on his Find-a-Grave memorial page.
Not that I do such for any recognition, I have actually had people seek me out and thank me for this as they never knew such photos existed and would have never seen them otherwise.
One huge frustration I keep running into is that - very surprisingly - there are many who create memorials purely to add to their number count; the creator automatically becomes the "boss"of that memorial and any subsequent adding of information must be "approved" by them.
These people will create thousands upon thousands of memorials, completely lacking of obvious and easily available connection information, and just sit on them and never respond to "suggested edits"; then, relatives and people who actually know the facts and details about the deceased run against this stone wall and can't include information and connections that they know for fact; and thus, others seeking that information never get to see it.
I have "suggested edits" that I have submitted many months ago that have never and never will be responded to and acted upon.
These memorial "hoarders" will get a lock on a whole family graveyard full of people that they don't even know and never even make connections to the most obvious and all of those connections be right there in that same graveyard and all controlled by them.
Many times, they will create a memorial for a husband and a wife, both buried side-by-side and sharing a stone, and never take the two seconds it takes to fill in the "Spouse" and forever connect them for those seeking that information in the future; likewise for the parents, children, grand-parents, and so forth, many times all right there in a single cemetery; and, so far as their memorial page, it is as if they have no family tree whatsoever.
Thankfully, there are a lot of good detail oriented people creating memorials who do a fine job; often, I may submit a suggested edit to them and it be acted upon before I go to bed that night.