{"id":2854,"date":"2016-06-09T05:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2016-06-09T05:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:06:41","slug":"how-i-use-findagrave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"How I Use FindAGrave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a fairly\u00a0strict policy for how I use information on\u00a0<em>FindAGrave:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I use the picture of the stone. I cite the source. \u00a0If it appears that there is a transcription of the stone on the &#8220;memorial&#8221; page and I have difficulty transcribing\u00a0the stone from the picture, then I may use the transcription as published on the &#8220;memorial&#8221; page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on the &#8220;Memorial&#8221; page, including links to parents, siblings, children, etc. is not copied into my genealogical database. I have no way of knowing how the information was obtained, analyzed, etc. If there is a date and place of obituary included, I may use that information to locate the actual obituary. I do not rely on the transcribed copy of the obituary.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that one does not often know where a submitter obtains information. I don&#8217;t use database information from WorldConnect,\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> trees, or other online &#8220;trees&#8221; in my personal database either.<\/p>\n<p>I use\u00a0<em>FindAGrave\u00a0<\/em> to locate photographs of tombstones in cemeteries that I am unable to personally visit. I find it a wonderful genealogical resource and have located burials that I would have had difficulty locating otherwise. I am grateful for those who take the time to photograph tombstones and place the images on <em>FindAGrave<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I simply choose to only use it for the tombstone information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Readers, of course, are welcome to use information on\u00a0<em>FindAGrave\u00a0<\/em>as they see fit. Our goal here is to get readers thinking about information, sources, and how they analyze information. Readers are free to disagree&#8211;I just want people to think.<\/p>\n<p>Never take anything at face value.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always possible the stone really isn&#8217;t in the cemetery that the submitter claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a fairly\u00a0strict policy for how I use information on\u00a0FindAGrave: I use the picture of the stone. I cite the source. \u00a0If it appears that there is a transcription of the stone on the &#8220;memorial&#8221; page and I have difficulty transcribing\u00a0the stone from the picture, then I may use the transcription as published on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-findagrave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}