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Jim Simpson (#47762855)
 member for 1 year, 1 month, 28 days
DebRob
Charles Pledger
Thank you for taking the time to add the great photos. Much appreciated!

Added by DebRob on May 16, 2013 4:08 PM

Cherie Lynn
Mary Zillah McCleskey Stripling Photo
Hi Jim: The more photos the better and thank you. Mary "Zillah" is my great grandmother, are you related? And could I ask if you noticed the monument? It was leaning badly the last time I was there and I wondered if I need to do something about that. Thanks again for the photo.

Added by Cherie Lynn on May 04, 2013 2:26 PM

William "Darrell" Hosey
Norman Wood Memorial 33792093
Jim, There is a big difference in taking the picture before noon. Thanks for sharing this with me. Please leave the picture on the memorial.

Added by William "Darrell" Hosey on May 03, 2013 9:00 PM

cfenters
RE: Ryan's Crossing Cemetery
Bobby Joe Seales from the Shelby County genweb site got back with me. He did confirm the Ryan cemetery. It was not listed on the web site. There are many cemeteries in Shelby County tht are not listed on the web site. He is going to put it on his list of things to do. I was trying to match to Find A Grave cemeteries in Shelby County against those on the gen web, but until the other cemeteries are on the genweb, it's almost impossible. There are a number of the cemeteries (as with most counties on Find A Grave) that are duplicates. When you see an obituary with a cemetery noted, sometimes you have to guess where to put them in Find A Grave. I would rather see someone in a wrong cemetery rather than not listed at all. I, personally, have no problem with deleting my memorial if someone else posts the same memorial in the correct cemetery. I absolutely LOVE findagrave, but sometimes there is a lot of behind-the-scene clean-up work that needs to be done. I'm glad that you caught the error on this cemetery and notified everyone. Good luck in your endeavors and Thanks!

Added by cfenters on Apr 19, 2013 9:20 AM

Larry Boyd
RE: Ryan cemetery & Marion Patterson
Glad to help Jim and thanks for letting me know.

Added by Larry Boyd on Apr 11, 2013 4:29 PM

Diggin' Up Bonz
RE: Deleted
When I first started on Find A Grave, I had all kind of help from the Admins of Find A Grave, they would merge two together and delete those that were duplicates. Now, they will not respond to anything I ask for. No matter how simple it is. We had a local lady who had over 30,000 memorials and deleted them all after Find A Grave would not respond to her. She had told them about her copyright photos and her personal website of cemetery listings, where people were duplicating them and placing them on Find A Grave, clearly copyright protected.. People who had never stepped foot in the state more less in the cemetery. It was all about numbers for them. However, it disappointed me when she deleted hers, because a good deal of them were on my family tree, so there fore I had placed personal photos of their marker and personal photographs of the person on the memorials. She deleted over two thousand I placed photos on. I have walked majority of the cemeteries over again and have placed about five thousand back on but still missing many. Good Luck on getting help with Find A Grave admins. When the lady deleted hers she also deleted the maps of the cemetery locations. I have written Find A Grave many times with the GPS so to place the map back on and they have not done so. This happen way back in 2011. I send GPS of different cemeteries at least once a week. So far they have not put any on. I will not stop trying.

Added by Diggin' Up Bonz on Apr 09, 2013 5:10 PM

Connie Edwards Thomilson
RE: Henry Smith
Jim,
In Smithboro, there is a house that has about 2 or three stones in it's back yard. I am not releated to the Smiths, but, I live just about six miles from Smithboro, and I have seen the place that you discribe.
connie

Added by Connie Edwards Thomilson on Mar 20, 2013 6:06 PM

RobMinteer57
obituaries
I have gotten in the habit of putting obituaries into what I think of as "Find A Grave Format"--occasionally people have e-mailed back wanting to know why I didn't add everything they sent, which gets them referred to the FAQs.

Thanks for the thoughts about my Uncle Marvin. He had been ready for the end--well, as ready as any of us can ever be--for several years, and at times had expressed frustration at being "disgustingly healthy", physically, but realizing that he was slipping mentally.

Cool pic yourself of what I assume are you and your father and grandfather. I think I recognize that house as being on South 9th or 10th, not far from where I live on West Babcock--but of course it could be anywhere and have been changed greatly since 1953. I notice, too, your use of initials to keep people straight. My uncle always did that, and it took a bit of getting used to to see my grandparents always referred to as HJM and ELM, but it sure was/is easier than having to be specific about whose father or grandfather is being referred to.

On the old form for adding burials, there wasn't a Burial Unknown choice--but maybe they started getting too many "plops" so decided it was better to have them out in the open than hidden in scattered cemeteries. I noticed recently that someone had several Virtual Cemeteries of Duplicates, so perhaps when I get time I will start a few of BUs.

Added by RobMinteer57 on Dec 28, 2012 7:57 AM

william maxey
RE: maxey genealogy
hi, yes i seen you also had a nice line of maxey photos. its very exciting and spend several hours a week adding new info to my maxey tree. i would love to see some obituaries on this part of the tree. if you have any can you post them to find a grave.

the question i get the most is why was the turbyfield name is used down through several of william maxey and elizabeth ? turbyfields generations. i hope to submit a dna and compare to there the john turbyfiell line from early virginia. if dna ancestry is as good as they suggest i will be taking edward sr and jrs family back towards the 1500's in england proofing the turbyfield gates greville etc. when i am finally finished i will submit the info on my makeseye/maxey website.

http://makeseye.wordpress.com/

thank you,
william maxey

Added by william maxey on Jun 13, 2012 6:03 PM

Melinda Albarado
RE: Harmony Cemetery
Dear Jim - Thank you for adding "Harmony Cemetery" to findagrave! I remember what the cemetery looked like before any work was done! And how beautiful it is now! I spent several months researching these African American families and am so glad that the results are being used in some way! Please contact me at malbarado12@bellsouth.net, as there is additional information I would like to share with you. Melinda

Added by Melinda Albarado on Jun 12, 2012 6:32 AM

imagal49
RE: Memorial transfers
Any time you need a transfer, just let me know - always glad to find relatives to take care of the memorials I create.
Noelle

Added by imagal49 on Apr 12, 2012 7:14 PM

 
 

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