"We want Find A Grave to remain a place of respect and remembrance, just like a real cemetery." The object of Find A Grave is to document burials, not make it a repository for highly personal details more appropriately posted on a genealogical website - or in some cases, better kept in your own private notes. Give some thought before adding to a memorial a personal detail you would not like added to your own memorial someday.

Graphic details about a death should not be included, nor should they name a perpetrator. Biographical information must not be placed in flowers. "Inappropriate notes will be removed, and members who continue to add inappropriate notes will have their account closed."

Please do not send suggestions based on unsourced entries found on an Ancestry tree or other genealogical website.

Please don't ask for a town name to be added as a birth location when a birth clearly occurred in a rural location, regardless of what might have been written later, following the misleading practice of naming a nearby town. For example, I have received suggestions to add a town - before the town was even laid out. We pay the greatest respect to early residents by accurately noting where they were born, lived and died. If you want a town name as a geographical point of reference, you can keep that in your own records. With a few keystrokes, you can add it in the bio section of memorials you create.

This is the URL for a date calculator that clearly explains how ambiguous dates of birth occur:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Date_Calculator

"We want Find A Grave to remain a place of respect and remembrance, just like a real cemetery." The object of Find A Grave is to document burials, not make it a repository for highly personal details more appropriately posted on a genealogical website - or in some cases, better kept in your own private notes. Give some thought before adding to a memorial a personal detail you would not like added to your own memorial someday.

Graphic details about a death should not be included, nor should they name a perpetrator. Biographical information must not be placed in flowers. "Inappropriate notes will be removed, and members who continue to add inappropriate notes will have their account closed."

Please do not send suggestions based on unsourced entries found on an Ancestry tree or other genealogical website.

Please don't ask for a town name to be added as a birth location when a birth clearly occurred in a rural location, regardless of what might have been written later, following the misleading practice of naming a nearby town. For example, I have received suggestions to add a town - before the town was even laid out. We pay the greatest respect to early residents by accurately noting where they were born, lived and died. If you want a town name as a geographical point of reference, you can keep that in your own records. With a few keystrokes, you can add it in the bio section of memorials you create.

This is the URL for a date calculator that clearly explains how ambiguous dates of birth occur:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Date_Calculator