While I may continue to add photos of grave markers, I am withdrawing from managing profiles of all but my immediate family members.

I have always appreciated the ability to find ancestors' burial places and tombstones here, knowing that the information on a tombstone may be incorrect, even if it is written in stone.

I am disturbed, however, by the ability now to include undocumented information not evident on the markers. Originally, the photos spoke for themselves. Now, anything goes, and unsourced, undocumented information may be added to a memorial, often further perpetuating inaccuracies. The truth becomes whatever a memorial manager determines it should be.

Beyond disappointed, I am truly horrified by the common practice as well of volunteers who create memorials even before a person has been buried, and not even allowing an immediate family member the opportunity to create that memorial.

I sincerely appreciate the many volunteers who put so much time and effort into Find A Grave, but I am dismayed by the numbers of others who see Memorial Management as a sense of relative 'ownership'.

We are all related. We are all ultimately working towards the same goal - to connect.

While I may continue to add photos of grave markers, I am withdrawing from managing profiles of all but my immediate family members.

I have always appreciated the ability to find ancestors' burial places and tombstones here, knowing that the information on a tombstone may be incorrect, even if it is written in stone.

I am disturbed, however, by the ability now to include undocumented information not evident on the markers. Originally, the photos spoke for themselves. Now, anything goes, and unsourced, undocumented information may be added to a memorial, often further perpetuating inaccuracies. The truth becomes whatever a memorial manager determines it should be.

Beyond disappointed, I am truly horrified by the common practice as well of volunteers who create memorials even before a person has been buried, and not even allowing an immediate family member the opportunity to create that memorial.

I sincerely appreciate the many volunteers who put so much time and effort into Find A Grave, but I am dismayed by the numbers of others who see Memorial Management as a sense of relative 'ownership'.

We are all related. We are all ultimately working towards the same goal - to connect.