mhicksgiles

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6/23/21 I've been told recently that my philosophy on edits is rude. No, it's brutally honest. People lie about their ages, the wrong info gets put on stones, names get misspelled on stones ... heck they do on birth & death certificates too. Nothing is concrete. Which is why I ask that people give me proof that what I've got on a specific memorial is wrong... all I have to go on is what is on the stone in most cases, and I'm usually more than willing to change it. Hearsay is just that.

If I have something transcribed wrong, lemme know (I often suffer from what I refer to as typoese. My fingers move at a different speed than my brain, and I don't always catch mistakes)

That said, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to send me a message, literally yelling at me for asking for proof on a memorial. I typed what was 1-either on the stone 2- in a local cemetery book 3-or was taken from an obituary of someone I personally know. I wander old cemeteries because I find it relaxing. The Stones are a piece of history that I can somehow relate to, and that as a part of history, I think should be preserved.

6/23/21 I've been told recently that my philosophy on edits is rude. No, it's brutally honest. People lie about their ages, the wrong info gets put on stones, names get misspelled on stones ... heck they do on birth & death certificates too. Nothing is concrete. Which is why I ask that people give me proof that what I've got on a specific memorial is wrong... all I have to go on is what is on the stone in most cases, and I'm usually more than willing to change it. Hearsay is just that.

If I have something transcribed wrong, lemme know (I often suffer from what I refer to as typoese. My fingers move at a different speed than my brain, and I don't always catch mistakes)

That said, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to send me a message, literally yelling at me for asking for proof on a memorial. I typed what was 1-either on the stone 2- in a local cemetery book 3-or was taken from an obituary of someone I personally know. I wander old cemeteries because I find it relaxing. The Stones are a piece of history that I can somehow relate to, and that as a part of history, I think should be preserved.

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