My main interest in posting memorials is simple. Helping others, find the cemetery where someone is buried. So many cemeteries have no records, partial records, or lost records. So many are buried without a gravestone or marker. So many gravestones have fallen over, or lost its message due to time. Sadly cemeteries have thousands and thousands of "gone and forgotten" persons lying beneath the surface. Even sadder,is that many of those who served this country in peacetime and war are buried without a marker or the marker is gone. Even more disturbing is the way some cemeteries were "cleaned up" with a bulldozer, and headstones were plowed over.
Find A Grave is remedy for the gone and forgotten.
15 years later, and some 16K memorials, I find it harder and harder to please certain people whose numerous FAG rules don't go far enough, and add their own "likes & dislikes" regarding memorials. Like many others, I found it necessary to turn off messages. The original purpose of this website was to Find a Grave, it has since transitioned into a free genealogy website, where every bit of information gleaned from anywhere is submitted to the memorial creator in the form of emails. Find A Grave is a hobby not a job. You are not my boss. I have long since given up trying to please everyone, including the demand that obituaries be typed out; not submitted in an (expired newspaper copyright) image file, or remove my member information for the submission of an edit, " I do not like them cluttering the memorial". Really, how do I find the time to please you? The information I enter is the best information I have at the time and mistakes/typos are inevitable. I am not responsible for FAG edits that are not accurate.
Newspapers death notices and obituaries are often the only way to determine where someone is buried. Find a Grave is a more modern internet version of cemetery transcriptions records that genealogists created many decades ago. But, they only capture a fraction of the dead lying beneath the ground. Early city graveyards or burial grounds as they were called, are most likely to have poor record keeping. Most transcriptions are gravestone transcriptions, so many family members are not included. I believe everyone lying beneath an unmarked grave deserves a small remembrance on this website. If you found someone in your family tree that you could not find before, then I think that's great. Glad I could be of help.

My main interest in posting memorials is simple. Helping others, find the cemetery where someone is buried. So many cemeteries have no records, partial records, or lost records. So many are buried without a gravestone or marker. So many gravestones have fallen over, or lost its message due to time. Sadly cemeteries have thousands and thousands of "gone and forgotten" persons lying beneath the surface. Even sadder,is that many of those who served this country in peacetime and war are buried without a marker or the marker is gone. Even more disturbing is the way some cemeteries were "cleaned up" with a bulldozer, and headstones were plowed over.
Find A Grave is remedy for the gone and forgotten.
15 years later, and some 16K memorials, I find it harder and harder to please certain people whose numerous FAG rules don't go far enough, and add their own "likes & dislikes" regarding memorials. Like many others, I found it necessary to turn off messages. The original purpose of this website was to Find a Grave, it has since transitioned into a free genealogy website, where every bit of information gleaned from anywhere is submitted to the memorial creator in the form of emails. Find A Grave is a hobby not a job. You are not my boss. I have long since given up trying to please everyone, including the demand that obituaries be typed out; not submitted in an (expired newspaper copyright) image file, or remove my member information for the submission of an edit, " I do not like them cluttering the memorial". Really, how do I find the time to please you? The information I enter is the best information I have at the time and mistakes/typos are inevitable. I am not responsible for FAG edits that are not accurate.
Newspapers death notices and obituaries are often the only way to determine where someone is buried. Find a Grave is a more modern internet version of cemetery transcriptions records that genealogists created many decades ago. But, they only capture a fraction of the dead lying beneath the ground. Early city graveyards or burial grounds as they were called, are most likely to have poor record keeping. Most transcriptions are gravestone transcriptions, so many family members are not included. I believe everyone lying beneath an unmarked grave deserves a small remembrance on this website. If you found someone in your family tree that you could not find before, then I think that's great. Glad I could be of help.