Find A Grave biographies

[PaulineJ]

Don't get me started on unverifiable additions to a memorial. I hold most of the memorials in a local to me graveyard. I transcribed the burial register and photographed the headstones.

There's a couple of fag members in particular who want to submit additional information. One I've actually met in the local cemetery, and another is in the US.

The local one I'm happy to add info in a heartbeat, it's instantly apparent that he's a diligent researcher.

 The other can't even use sums to guestimate birth years, assigns completely wrong women as the brides, husbands parent's as the wife's parents, declares inaccurate places of birth/ death etc. Everything from her now gets rejected , I've spent too long disproving previous amendments.

[coombs]

"Imagine being born at the very strike of midnight on the dot."
Happened with my niece, the midwife asked my brother what day he wanted her birthday-the 10th or the 11th. He went for the 11th as it would make her a day younger!!

My father was born 9:30pm on 31st March. If nan's birth had been delayed 3 hours, he would be born on April Fools.

FAG is a good acronym for Find A Grave but it does sound like a cigarette. I am a staunch ex and strict non smoker now, like my aunty. Not smoked for ages and never will again.

I do like some of the bios on Find A Grave but as is the rule, always check for yourself, like Ancestry trees and heraldic visitations.

[Erato]

I think Find A Grave should be commended for providing so many people the pleasure of righteous indignation.

[Enumerated]

However I have also come across a bio of one of my relatives attached to the wrong person. Same name, different person, place and dates. I offered proof and asked for it to be corrected but was ignored.

If this was some time ago you might like to try again. The edit system on findagrave has been updated and you can now submit edits for all fields on a memorial directly. The memorial manager has 21 days to address the edits, after which the edits will be processed automatically.

[bikermickau]

delete please

[Isabel H]

Enumerated,
Thanks, I'll try that.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

One of my ancestors was said to have died 11th March 1844, as written on her headstone, but her death cert says she died 12th March. The headstone writing clearly says 11th.

To a scientist that is almost within experimental error ....  .  Perhaps the person died late on the day but the death was recorded after midnight - or something like that ?

Or to add a bit of humour, it took her a few seconds to die, starting 11:59:58 on the 11th, and they were dead by 3 seconds past midnight on the 12th. 

Imagine being born at the very strike of midnight on the dot.

Death before or after midnight sounds like a storyline from Coronation Street.

[Robert Haigh]

I’m seeing more and more hints on Ancestry from FAG, which is good for information from the headstone. What I also see though are biographies with baptism, marriage and other information.

As I understand these are put together by the person who maintains that memorial.

Inexperienced researchers might then put that info to their tree even though it could be wrong.

I’m surprised Ancestry and FAG allow this. My view is that FAG should limit itself to what it says on the tin, or the grave.

I maintain several memorials on Find A Grave UK (all family members) and I include dates of birth and death, where known. I can't verify the veracity of other people's information on their own memorials, but I stand by my own details on my own memorials as true facts. It is up to each person to exercise their own caution as they see fit, I would say.