******If you don't know Jesus Christ as your savior, please try to do that. He died so all of us could be saved. He loves us all. Just ask God's forgiveness and open your heart to Him. It is life changing!

I am in the process of transferring the memorials I am not related to . I am only wanting to keep family and friends unless friends family want them. If I manage anyone that you would like to manage please let me know. am transferring to find a grave but it's a slow process. Any of those I've transferred to find a grave you can manage if it's still in their name. Very easy to get them. I can't go to the cemeteries anymore and I just don't have time to deal with memorials that aren't my own family and friends. What I should have done was transfer them as I went, but not sure the ability to transfer to f a g was there til recently. Be patient if you request memorials please. It could take me a few days to see it, but I'll do my best to check my email.

Ok, some people are sending me edits to add a previous married name to a person. If it's on the stone, fine, I can accept that. But if it's someone they had divorced, unless family wants it on there or it's in an obituary or the stone as being on there, I will not add a divorced persons last name to someone. I was divorced myself and I truly would not like it if I had a memorial and someone added my ex's name to my last name. I hope you will understand.

I get so many edits that I can't keep researching them to see if they are accurate. Believe me, not all of them are accurate! I am going to just accept what's sent. If this is your relative or ancestor, PLEASE ask for a transfer. I am not sure how to let find a grave take over all the ones that aren't my own family. I took photos of all the stones in many cemeteries so we could make sure they all had a memorial so people could find them. Now I have way too many! Most of them I visited. There are some I took over for fallen gravers. I need to give away all but my own. Please please ask for transfers!

Please be patient and kind. We have our own lives to deal with too. We do not get paid for doing this. We do it to help others find their ancestors and see gravestones that they may never have gotten to see, otherwise. Edits are automatically accepted after 20 days, I believe. So even if it takes that long, they will eventually be accepted if the manager hasn't done anything. Transfers can take a few days. Please be patient with people. After about 30 days if your request hasn't been addressed, then contact Edit @find a grave and they will help you.

I do not accept anything from FamilySearch as fact. Itis no more fact or a good source than Family trees on Ancestry.

Ok, I've had a new problem come up with people merging people without making sure they are correct. And Find A Grave doesn't seem to be making sure the merge is correct, either. So a person's memorial page gets lost forever unless they are made a new one. I've had this happen twice now in the past year. The latest was two infants with the same last name and same birth and death year, but one in March and one in July. Two different stones. Yet, someone had them merged and F A G complied. I had to make a new memorial for one of the babies so they would have one. This also happened with an adult and I got with the original memorial manager to let them know what happened and another memorial was made. PLEASE make sure you are correct when you suggest a merge. I wonder just how many memorials have been lost due to this. :-(

**My photos that I have taken are for anyone to use as they wish.

***I want to say that I am not responsible for any misinformation posted on a memorial that I have transferred to another. You need to take that up with the new memorial manager. Also, because I may have posted a photo or a flower on a memorial does not mean I am related to that person or know anything about them.

Please feel free to ask for transfers if you are related to the person. Please state the relationship in your request. I am not related to most and if I am, I'll let you know. I also ask that you go through the edit tab on the memorial page of the one you want transferred please. Just scroll down to suggest other edits and ask though there.

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** Please don't put Missouri death certificates in the photo section. They are available easily online.

I'm so sorry, but if I can't find proof of an edit sent to me, and you are listed as Anonymous, I won't be able to accept those edits unless you send the proof for the edits. Either a link to where I can find the information, or the actual information and where it came from. If family asks me where in the world I got that information, I need to be able to tell them.

I've been doing genealogy research for 26 years. Not as long as some, but long enough to have learned quite a bit about it. These are just tips to help and not trying to sound mean. Some of the things I have learned over the years:

1. Never assume someone died where SS states their last residence.(This is a biggie!)

2. Use Ancestry trees for possible clues, but never as fact unless they list solid proof to back up their claims. I realize some tree information is from close family members and may be 100% accurate, but then again, it might not be.

3. No one truly knows what is fact unless you were there and saw it yourself.

4. All documents can be in error. That being said, I tend to believe a death date on a death certificate more than what a stone has, if it's different. Or, a death date from a newspaper when the obituary is listed before the stated death date.

5. Researching genealogy is similar to being a detective. You have to look at all clues and think outside the box sometimes.

6. Last but not least, never give up trying to break through a brick wall. It may take years, but something could turn up later down the road. It could be just a tiny clue that blossoms into something great. I've had that happen.

Years of trying to figure out where my ggg grandmother Millie Smith Clodfelter Vanderpool came from and who her family was, I finally found a clue. I had ordered my ggg grandfather John Clodfelter's (her 1st husband) military packet from the National Archives. I had read it and read it and after a few months of having it, I was reading it once again and realized a name on there, Joseph Smith, that had somehow escaped me before. Turns out he was Millie's father. It opened up to finding her family and where she had come from. I was able to follow Joseph to all the places Millie had been, and he died and was buried just a few miles from where she had died and was buried. So NEVER give up. ;-)

One more thing about Ancestry trees is, if you look at them, you will see that a person that is on multiple trees may have exactly the same information. Right or wrong. That's the trouble with Ancestry. People get on there, see all the other trees with the information and think it must be true. So they follow suit and copy it to their tree without really researching and making sure what they have is true. So beware of that and don't blindly follow everyone else's tree.

I don't think some of you understand this in the faqs: "No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments." When it talks about borders, it doesn't mean things surrounding a stone, such as grass or backgrounds behind the stone. It's talking about people putting borders or embellishments from a program. I think most people when they want to see a stone, LIKE seeing what's around it too. I know I do! Please include at least a little grass or background where the stone is. I am sure people will appreciate that a lot. Especially if there is no chance they will ever get to visit it in person. I also want to say, I have had people ask me why I put photos on memorials that already have them, especially when I'm not related to them. Well, one reason is because I did a lot of work taking the photo. I usually try to take a photo of every stone in a cemetery and I have a bad back and bad joints, so for me, it is work. I also will put mine on if I think mine will appeal to people by adding background which is nice. I love people putting photos on my relatives and ancestors that show background. It seems to make it feel more like you are there. Sometimes I feel my photo is better. I won't lie. Find a grave allows 20 photos on an unsponsored memorial but a single person is limited to 5.