I do not call cemeteries for grave locations. With over 300 requests, I would be on the phone constantly. As you can see, I have added over 10 thousand photos, many from walking local cemeteries.

Please stop adding tombstone photos that are in private cemeteries to National Cemetery memorials. A link from one to the other is the FAG guideline.

CIVIL WAR records:

Please realize that there is a difference between the military statement discharged and mustered out. Sometimes they are the same but more often they are not.

The use of flowers to post biographical information is against FAG policy.

What may not be included as a Note on a Flower?

Do not leave derogatory, politically charged, biographical information, or obituaries as a note. Inappropriate notes will be removed, and members who continue to add inappropriate notes will have their account closed. Links to other websites or email addresses are not allowed in any tribute.

Heads up everyone; these types of photos are not allowed:

No. MIDI music files, animated GIF images, and other non-personal images are not allowed in the Photo section of a memorial page. Non-personal images include flowers, angels, flags, banners, coats of arms, etc.

Do NOT submit images taken from Google Maps, Google Earth, or similar websites.

Do NOT submit photos that YOU have not taken; without the consent of the photographer. Any copied photo that you put on here violates copyright laws; no matter where it came from.

More and more I see folks using images that they have copied from internet search engines.

Files from Geneanet Community Trees Index are not sourced and should not be considered to be positively accurate. If you can't find a document to support their records, which is the standard practice for genealogy, then you should not use those files.

I live in the Martinsville/Henry County Area of VA.

Surnames in my family:

Plott

James

Barneycastle

Caudle

Manning

Gauldin

Lawless

Helms

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Any photo that I have taken, of a tombstone or marker may be copied without my permission. I took them but the families of these people have every right to use them.

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Please remember that this is not a genealogy site. It's main purpose is and always has been to find the final resting place of individuals.