I will transfer memorials of family members upon request unless I am also closely related. WHEN REQUESTING TRANSFERS DO NOT USE ANY VERSION OF " This is a first cousin/uncle/aunt??? and I would like to add info and make family connection." A transfer is not necessary for this to be done and if that is the reason you want to manage the memorial then you should leave it with the current manager who may take better care of it than you.

Feel free to use any picture I have entered. Credit would be appreciated but not required.

I bow to FAG's change: The inscription field should only include information that is on the grave marker, but you can add any information from the headstone to the inscription field. Inscription is most often used for things like a quote, poem, marriage information or other details on the stone. Typically the other information such as name, birth and death dates are added into the fields on the memorial. But, there are also times when adding the full inscription, including names and dates that have already been added to those fields will help add clarity to the inscription field or capture an error on the stone that has been corrected in one of the fields.

Below I Repeat Anne Rupert's Bio comment: Lastly...

To all who remind us the primary purpose of Find a Grave is "GRAVE REGISTRATION", and then recite in your bio the FAG rules... yes we get it!... but it is a mere "starting point" as we work together, share, and seek to know more about the folks, what they looked like and where they lived as we "register their graves." We will go to great lengths to find out more!... to sum this up they are "NOT JUST A NAME ON A STONE!"

It is not about numbers, it's about honoring those who came before us.

PLEASE: Do not send edits to add the prefix of military rank to a memorial.

ADDING THE RANK TO A MEMORIAL: Use of rank is reserved for career 20 year

retirees and individuals who passed while on active military duty.

THE ANCESTOR

Your tombstone stands among the rest;

neglected and alone

The name and date are chiseled out

on polished, marbled stone

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn

You did not know that I'd exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

in flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

one hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

and come to visit you.

-Author Walter Butler Palmer (1906)

-FAG Memorial# 87759950

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87759950/walter-butler-palmer