Hello there, person reading this.

Thank you.

Life is hard at the moment, especially emotionally. I do my research to escape my thoughts and do not have much energy or time to come to the site every day. Just because I uploaded a bunch of names doesn't mean I'm ready to deal with living people and re-check the dozens of edits you've sent me. (Because I actually do that.) What I want to say with that is, your Edits may just go through automatically after 30 days. Sometimes no answer is also an answer.

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*Now on to the important things*

Notes:

Public messages: If you ask me something or send me a S.A.C. and there is the possibility that I write something back (like when you ask: What do you think?) It would be really amazing if you have your public messages enabled... or a working email address.

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Photos: All grave photos taken and posted by me may not be used by you without my permission. Ask, and I probably grant it, but please do not steal them and re-post them somewhere. When I post my photos here, I still retain the copyright. I give Ancestry the right to use it, not its members.

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Linking family members:

I will not link to memorials where the place of burial is unknown or obviously just a guess by the contributor.

Find out where they are buried and then contact me. This is 'Find A Grave' after all.

https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Creating-Memorials

See: I have a presumed burial location, should I add the memorial?

See also: https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Non-Cemetery-Burials (the part about Explanation of burial types Burial Details Unknown

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Transfers:

I only transfer within four generations. No response is also a response. Requesting transfers of people from 400 years in the past because they are your ancestors (and surely no one besides you) is ridiculous.

Don't hope for a quick response, because...

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E-Mail:

I have a mail address linked to my account, but I'm awful at checking it, (last time I opened it, it had 300+ messages related to find a grave alone) so it might take a while for me to react. Make a small edit (a . in the inscription field) and use the note section on the memorial, that's faster.

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Maiden names:

See here: https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Naming-Memorials#memname

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Naming Conventions:

See the last sentence of the first paragraph, here: https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Naming-Memorials#memname

Suffixes, Prefixes, Titles, or honorifics do not belong in any Name Field.

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When you suggest a Biography on one of my non-famous memorials

Please do not copy/paste a wiki bio. I'll just continue to have no bio or the bare-bones bio. It should also just be one paragraph...

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A short German-English lesson:

Ehemann - husband

Ehefrau - wife

Gattin - wife

Gattin von - wife of

geb. xxx = geboren - indicates maiden name

geb. in xxx = geboren in xxx - indicates place of birth

Liebling - darling

Mutter - mother

Sohn / Söhnchen - son / baby son

Schwester - Sister

seine - his

Tochter/Töchterlein - daughter/baby daughter

unser/unsre - our

Vater/Papa - Father

Mutter/Mama - Mother

Two words in Czech

Rozena/Rozen - born

Rodina - family

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Old St Johns cemetery

Most graves listed have a precise plot number but, afterward, stands 'grave lost'. In that case, I've got the information about the burial out of one of two books from either 1848 or 1908. Since then, a lot has happened (read the cemetery bio). I think I photographed every available stone I could get my hands on without breaking a law. So if there is no photo now, there probably will not be one ever.

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Disclaimer: (because, apparently, I need one)

If I send you an S.A.C. which sounds insulting, assume that it was not my intention. I still have problems with the English language and sometimes just don't come across the way I want. (Also, my sarcasm is strong at times.)

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