Any obituary, photo, bio information or document uploaded is not a copyright violation and is covered under the Fair Use Law if used for research or genealogical purposes. The information within or connected to my memorials is not to be sold for profit.

My courtesy request for findagrave members: I respectfully request that you do not send me copy-and-paste paragraphs from Findagrave Help sections. I am aware of Findagrave policy and try to keep up with it by reading the Terms of Service, Help sections and the Findagrave Forum on a regular basis. I know policy changes often. Thanks so much.

Please do not send me a message through any part of the edit system such as the bio or grave details. Your message isn't an edit and it will be declined.

If my account name isn't under a picture on a memorial, I can't remove it. Please contact the person who uploaded it and ask them. If there are two names at the bottom of a memorial and my name is on top, that means I didn't create the memorial, I just assumed management of it. I can't delete the memorial.

Please do not rewrite my language in the bio section of a memorial to your language. Those edits will be declined. Please do not remove facts from the bio section of a memorial under the basis of honoring the dead because you want to see a clean memorial, or, in the alternative, you want your story profiled and not have me or someone else-- "just tossing things in there." Those edits will be declined.

--Please remember this is FindAGRAVE and not a family tree site. For those of you who send me pages-long transcripts of lifetime online documents in story form to be inserted in the bio section of my memorials to flesh out your family tree—, please don't. I will accept your edit and then condense the information, so the risk is yours. Copy and paste information from censuses just don't look well in a memorial as it takes up so much room, so if you want me to add that information to a memorial, I will accept the edit but I will go back into the memorial and condense the information to a line or two.

--I love documents. Obituaries, birth & death certificates and military docs are great to upload to my memorials and do much to confirm facts. Findagrave allows many documents today. PLEASE DO NOT UPLOAD A SCREENSHOT OF YOUR OR THE DECEASED'S FAMILY TREE TO A MEMORIAL. If you think I'm the bad guy, ask Findagrave about these type of images. These are not documents, take up space and are completely unnecessary.

EDITS
— Please process your edits through the Findagrave edit system which is simple and easy.
— I do not link to Burial Unknowns (most of the time). Please do not create a Burial Unknown memorial for an ancestor as a fill-in for your family tree and then ask me to link a memorial to that person. Findagrave discourages Burial Unknowns and asks that you do not create memorials for the purpose of creating your family tree on Findagrave.
— Best-guess dispositions are accepted for our ancestors whose burial has been lost to history. Many of our ancestors were buried on family farms or in small family cemeteries. If a wife or a husband is buried in a family cemetery, it is safe to assume the spouse would be buried there also if they both died in a close time frame. However, also take in consideration a re-marriage and subsequent burial with the next spouse. You are welcome to insert a hyperlink in the bio section of your burial unknown linking that burial unknown to my memorial.
— Dates and name spellings on headstones are not always accurate since many stones were placed years or decades after the person died.
— I research most edits when I have time. I don't always have a lot of time and will go back to an accepted edit and research it. If I find links to unknown burials or a plop in a cemetery that was created in 1890 and the person died in 1860, I will unlink the memorial, or I will research the burial and try to find an accurate and true burial location and merge them.
— Do not add your edits, obituaries or your extended family tree information in the flowers. This is against Findagrave's policies. If I find it, I will report it as abuse and have it removed. Simple military information in a flower is OK. If you want to add additional military information, there is the stone inscription edit area that can be used and I will accept the edit.
— If you send me an edit adding a period "." after an initial, I will decline it. It's a waste of your time and mine and the search function operates better by not using a punctuation mark. Findagrave has improved their search algorithms.
— People were not born with the title of Mr. or Mrs., or a military title. I will not accept edits to add a prefix of Mr. or Mrs. unless they were buried as, example: Mrs. James Cooper. Also, not all men with same names were titled with Sr and Jr. and not all Sr and Jr members had the same middle name. Don't guess... I check.
— Military titles are bestowed during a lifetime and not all were honorable; Findagrave's Military Rank guidelines and military protocol specifically state that only military who died while in service or retired from service retain their rank. If you send me an edit adding a military rank to the memorial, I will decline it or remove it. Military ranks will be added to the bio section or in the headstone inscription area.
— I do not accept edits assigning a number or a letter to any infant, child or human being. From Findagrave's naming conventions: "Do not use other terms unless they identify the person. Acceptable terms, that can be placed in the first name field, include but are not limited to: Child, Twin, Infant, Adult, Male, Female. Most often you would use what is inscribed on the headstone for the first name field, such as Infant or Baby Boy along with the surname in the last name field. You can add other descriptive text to distinguish one infant from another in the same family, such as 'Infant Boy Jensen' and 'Infant Boy 2 Jensen." This is optional but not MANDATORY. I will be happy to put additional information in the bio section, ie. Triplet 1 of 3 etc. This issue has come up in the past, and Findagrave has confirmed this information. If you inaccurately merge one of my infants in with another, I contact Findagrave to reinstate the memorial, and they know who merged the memorials.
— Memorials that I have taken over from inactive or fallen gravers will not always have correct information or links to correct family members. Since I work on Findagrave sporadically at night, I haven't worked on each memorial to check for accuracy. I welcome any edits to correct existing mistakes. If you find wrong information on these re-managed memorials, put in an edit and I'll check it out. Upload a document as verification of your change.

TRANSFER POLICIES
Due to past difficulties with other members, I have found it necessary to adopt new transfer procedures and follow the Findagrave policies, therefore—

I will now only transfer under Findagrave's Transfer Policies, which clearly outline the direct generational procedure. -- (I will always transfer your brothers and sisters and their spouses.) --

--If you ask for a transfer, according to Findagrave policy, state your relationship when you ask. If no relationship is stated, no transfer. I will not respond. Name collectors looking to fill in the twigs on their family tree by asking for several same-name transfers will also be ignored. We all have thousands of cousins in our family trees and those cousins have cousins. Asking for a "first cousin four times removed" who was born in 1840, a 2nd grandparent or a 3rd great-grandparent, is not in the transfer guidelines --

These are Findagrave's new transfer policies. Please read them before asking for a transfer.
Memorials are transferred for relatives with these close relationships: child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step, and in-law versions of these relationships. If two members are related within these guidelines and both would like to manage the memorial, the member with the closer relationship should be given management.

Sending me repeated requests for the same memorials that are not in guidelines is a no-no.

I do not transfer the memorials of my, my husband's or my children's family members.

I hereby designate Sherri Anderson as the legacy beneficiary of all my memorials in the event of my incapacitation or death. A person never knows when that hand will come down out of the skies and sweep us away.

Any obituary, photo, bio information or document uploaded is not a copyright violation and is covered under the Fair Use Law if used for research or genealogical purposes. The information within or connected to my memorials is not to be sold for profit.

My courtesy request for findagrave members: I respectfully request that you do not send me copy-and-paste paragraphs from Findagrave Help sections. I am aware of Findagrave policy and try to keep up with it by reading the Terms of Service, Help sections and the Findagrave Forum on a regular basis. I know policy changes often. Thanks so much.

Please do not send me a message through any part of the edit system such as the bio or grave details. Your message isn't an edit and it will be declined.

If my account name isn't under a picture on a memorial, I can't remove it. Please contact the person who uploaded it and ask them. If there are two names at the bottom of a memorial and my name is on top, that means I didn't create the memorial, I just assumed management of it. I can't delete the memorial.

Please do not rewrite my language in the bio section of a memorial to your language. Those edits will be declined. Please do not remove facts from the bio section of a memorial under the basis of honoring the dead because you want to see a clean memorial, or, in the alternative, you want your story profiled and not have me or someone else-- "just tossing things in there." Those edits will be declined.

--Please remember this is FindAGRAVE and not a family tree site. For those of you who send me pages-long transcripts of lifetime online documents in story form to be inserted in the bio section of my memorials to flesh out your family tree—, please don't. I will accept your edit and then condense the information, so the risk is yours. Copy and paste information from censuses just don't look well in a memorial as it takes up so much room, so if you want me to add that information to a memorial, I will accept the edit but I will go back into the memorial and condense the information to a line or two.

--I love documents. Obituaries, birth & death certificates and military docs are great to upload to my memorials and do much to confirm facts. Findagrave allows many documents today. PLEASE DO NOT UPLOAD A SCREENSHOT OF YOUR OR THE DECEASED'S FAMILY TREE TO A MEMORIAL. If you think I'm the bad guy, ask Findagrave about these type of images. These are not documents, take up space and are completely unnecessary.

EDITS
— Please process your edits through the Findagrave edit system which is simple and easy.
— I do not link to Burial Unknowns (most of the time). Please do not create a Burial Unknown memorial for an ancestor as a fill-in for your family tree and then ask me to link a memorial to that person. Findagrave discourages Burial Unknowns and asks that you do not create memorials for the purpose of creating your family tree on Findagrave.
— Best-guess dispositions are accepted for our ancestors whose burial has been lost to history. Many of our ancestors were buried on family farms or in small family cemeteries. If a wife or a husband is buried in a family cemetery, it is safe to assume the spouse would be buried there also if they both died in a close time frame. However, also take in consideration a re-marriage and subsequent burial with the next spouse. You are welcome to insert a hyperlink in the bio section of your burial unknown linking that burial unknown to my memorial.
— Dates and name spellings on headstones are not always accurate since many stones were placed years or decades after the person died.
— I research most edits when I have time. I don't always have a lot of time and will go back to an accepted edit and research it. If I find links to unknown burials or a plop in a cemetery that was created in 1890 and the person died in 1860, I will unlink the memorial, or I will research the burial and try to find an accurate and true burial location and merge them.
— Do not add your edits, obituaries or your extended family tree information in the flowers. This is against Findagrave's policies. If I find it, I will report it as abuse and have it removed. Simple military information in a flower is OK. If you want to add additional military information, there is the stone inscription edit area that can be used and I will accept the edit.
— If you send me an edit adding a period "." after an initial, I will decline it. It's a waste of your time and mine and the search function operates better by not using a punctuation mark. Findagrave has improved their search algorithms.
— People were not born with the title of Mr. or Mrs., or a military title. I will not accept edits to add a prefix of Mr. or Mrs. unless they were buried as, example: Mrs. James Cooper. Also, not all men with same names were titled with Sr and Jr. and not all Sr and Jr members had the same middle name. Don't guess... I check.
— Military titles are bestowed during a lifetime and not all were honorable; Findagrave's Military Rank guidelines and military protocol specifically state that only military who died while in service or retired from service retain their rank. If you send me an edit adding a military rank to the memorial, I will decline it or remove it. Military ranks will be added to the bio section or in the headstone inscription area.
— I do not accept edits assigning a number or a letter to any infant, child or human being. From Findagrave's naming conventions: "Do not use other terms unless they identify the person. Acceptable terms, that can be placed in the first name field, include but are not limited to: Child, Twin, Infant, Adult, Male, Female. Most often you would use what is inscribed on the headstone for the first name field, such as Infant or Baby Boy along with the surname in the last name field. You can add other descriptive text to distinguish one infant from another in the same family, such as 'Infant Boy Jensen' and 'Infant Boy 2 Jensen." This is optional but not MANDATORY. I will be happy to put additional information in the bio section, ie. Triplet 1 of 3 etc. This issue has come up in the past, and Findagrave has confirmed this information. If you inaccurately merge one of my infants in with another, I contact Findagrave to reinstate the memorial, and they know who merged the memorials.
— Memorials that I have taken over from inactive or fallen gravers will not always have correct information or links to correct family members. Since I work on Findagrave sporadically at night, I haven't worked on each memorial to check for accuracy. I welcome any edits to correct existing mistakes. If you find wrong information on these re-managed memorials, put in an edit and I'll check it out. Upload a document as verification of your change.

TRANSFER POLICIES
Due to past difficulties with other members, I have found it necessary to adopt new transfer procedures and follow the Findagrave policies, therefore—

I will now only transfer under Findagrave's Transfer Policies, which clearly outline the direct generational procedure. -- (I will always transfer your brothers and sisters and their spouses.) --

--If you ask for a transfer, according to Findagrave policy, state your relationship when you ask. If no relationship is stated, no transfer. I will not respond. Name collectors looking to fill in the twigs on their family tree by asking for several same-name transfers will also be ignored. We all have thousands of cousins in our family trees and those cousins have cousins. Asking for a "first cousin four times removed" who was born in 1840, a 2nd grandparent or a 3rd great-grandparent, is not in the transfer guidelines --

These are Findagrave's new transfer policies. Please read them before asking for a transfer.
Memorials are transferred for relatives with these close relationships: child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step, and in-law versions of these relationships. If two members are related within these guidelines and both would like to manage the memorial, the member with the closer relationship should be given management.

Sending me repeated requests for the same memorials that are not in guidelines is a no-no.

I do not transfer the memorials of my, my husband's or my children's family members.

I hereby designate Sherri Anderson as the legacy beneficiary of all my memorials in the event of my incapacitation or death. A person never knows when that hand will come down out of the skies and sweep us away.