Have you spent some time with the fantastic FREE website, www.findagrave.com? Over the recent holidays, I spent some happy time looking up my ancestors to look for photos of their tombstones. Oh, the things I learned......... I knew Grandfather Mel died long before Hope but 28 years she was a widow? That's a long time.
Ron Marvin. EWGS member, gave a great workshop last November on this website. He offered several excellent tips:
* Understand that the photos have been added to FindAGrave by volunteers who live near that cemetery and have tromped around, photographed and uploaded the images.
* Confirm that you do have the correct person.
* Review the listed links (if present) to parents, spouses, children and siblings......... often you can reconstruct an entire family here!
* Check to see who added flowers....... an unknown cousin? Consider adding flowers yourself so that cousin can contact you.
* Once confirmed, you can snip-and-save the image to your computer clipboard and then upload it to Ancestry or FamilySearch.
* If you wish to upload additional information for this ancestor, or suggest corrected information, click on Suggested Edits.
* If the FindAGrave entry for your ancestor does not have a biography page, do consider compiling and uploading one. Ditto for an obituary or a photograph.
Go spent some happy time with your ancestors and FindAGrave. You'll enjoy it, I guarantee.
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