S Sh

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If I somehow created a record (not just made photo) of a burial belonging to your relative, and you would like to be its manager, please send me a message requesting a transfer and I will be happy to do so.


A few useful tips for requesters:


1.Requests are likely to be fulfilled much faster if record (NOT the request message) has Cemetery plot # field filled out. It is on you to obtain it. Some cemeteries have an online search database, so please look it up and copy over to FG. To add a plot #, click on button "Suggest edits", paste info in the "Cemetery Plot #", then "Save suggestions"/orange button.

If there is no online search, a phone call to office may be needed. When neither is possible, and it is understandably often the case, a volunteer might still find the grave but it is likely to be by accident.


2.PHOTOS HAVE CAPTIONS!!! It is a field, under the photo itself, but to see it you need to click on each photo. This the field where some of us, photo volunteers, write extra info about a grave, when picture alone doesn't make it obvious. If I photograph grass because there is no marker, I always write about that.


3.Christian cemeteries. Do not assume 1 plot = 1 individual grave. There can be a variable number of graves under same exact plot.

Searching by PLOT ONLY (leave names/years blank) can be an interesting way of discovering who belongs to the same family. You might see in-laws together, all with different names, seemingly with no connections, and the main stone might have an entirely different last name because another in-law purchased the plot. 

Be creative when typing that plot number - unfortunately words matter - if you type "range" instead of "row", it might not give any results or it might give new results you wouldn't get with "row". Punctuation doesn't matter).


4.Also, Christian cemeteries. NOT everybody who is buried there has their name engraved, even when there is a marker. There is infinity of reasons for that, most obvious being if a marker was made in 1980s, it might ignore older family burials. Same if a marker was made in 1910s, and no one replaced it, it won't have recent burials. If I made a photo of what you requested, assuming the plot number provided is correct, and the name you wanted to see is not there, that's because "infinity of reasons". I don't know why.


Hope this helps. Cheers!

If I somehow created a record (not just made photo) of a burial belonging to your relative, and you would like to be its manager, please send me a message requesting a transfer and I will be happy to do so.


A few useful tips for requesters:


1.Requests are likely to be fulfilled much faster if record (NOT the request message) has Cemetery plot # field filled out. It is on you to obtain it. Some cemeteries have an online search database, so please look it up and copy over to FG. To add a plot #, click on button "Suggest edits", paste info in the "Cemetery Plot #", then "Save suggestions"/orange button.

If there is no online search, a phone call to office may be needed. When neither is possible, and it is understandably often the case, a volunteer might still find the grave but it is likely to be by accident.


2.PHOTOS HAVE CAPTIONS!!! It is a field, under the photo itself, but to see it you need to click on each photo. This the field where some of us, photo volunteers, write extra info about a grave, when picture alone doesn't make it obvious. If I photograph grass because there is no marker, I always write about that.


3.Christian cemeteries. Do not assume 1 plot = 1 individual grave. There can be a variable number of graves under same exact plot.

Searching by PLOT ONLY (leave names/years blank) can be an interesting way of discovering who belongs to the same family. You might see in-laws together, all with different names, seemingly with no connections, and the main stone might have an entirely different last name because another in-law purchased the plot. 

Be creative when typing that plot number - unfortunately words matter - if you type "range" instead of "row", it might not give any results or it might give new results you wouldn't get with "row". Punctuation doesn't matter).


4.Also, Christian cemeteries. NOT everybody who is buried there has their name engraved, even when there is a marker. There is infinity of reasons for that, most obvious being if a marker was made in 1980s, it might ignore older family burials. Same if a marker was made in 1910s, and no one replaced it, it won't have recent burials. If I made a photo of what you requested, assuming the plot number provided is correct, and the name you wanted to see is not there, that's because "infinity of reasons". I don't know why.


Hope this helps. Cheers!

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