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people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 3:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 13 Jan 2015 3:40PM GMT
Can anybody tell me the procedure for this problem. In Washington County Pennsylvania there is a Cemetery called Monongahela Cemetery within and landlocked by Monongahela is a completely seperate cemetery Called St. Mary's. Monongahela cemetery office # is 724-258-8750 the Sexton is Mark. The records for St. Mary's are held by the Office of the Old Transfiguration Church # 724-258-7742. A simple phone call to either number would verify they are to completely seperate entities and the only connection to the two is the common boundaries and Monongahela has a contract for grounds maintenance in St. Mary's. One person has entered 25 memorials in Monongahela that belong in St. Mary's. Her response when it was brought to her attention was "Thanks for your information regarding my husbands family, however; my husband and I are leaving their final resting place as the Monongahela Cemetery with a note saying in the St Mary's Section." St. Mary's is a seperate cemetery not a section of Monongahela. What are the options to fix this. Please do not tell me to use the forums I have never been able to log into the forums. Also one of the pictures on the home page for Monongahela is actually a tombstone in St. Mary's (the one with the statue of the girl on top). Can these things be fixed.

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 4:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 14 Jan 2015 10:21AM GMT
I had a similar problem where someone duplicated about 100 memorials I had done because they mistakenly placed them in a cemetery across the street, so did not catch that they were duplicates. Contact the FAG support team, explain the problem, and ask to have the memorials transferred to the correct cemetery.

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 9:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 14 Jan 2015 8:40PM GMT
For the photo, send a request to photo @ findagrave.com -
Please move this photo
http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2013/244/CEM45444_137812...
to Saint Mary's Cemetery, ID #2359865
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=23...
with the brief explanation: St. Mary's Cemetery is landlocked within Monongahela Cemetery but is a separate entity. The monument in this photo is in St. Mary's.



There is no procedure in place to move memorials "in bulk". The correct procedure is to use the "Edit" tab at the top right corner of each memorial, then choose the 6th option - "Suggest any other correction or addition", and give a very brief statement of what change should be made, such as:

Please move this memorial from the current cemetery to Saint Mary's Cemetery, ID #2359865
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=23...
with the brief explanation: St. Mary's Cemetery is landlocked within Monongahela Cemetery but is a separate entity.



You may also want add each memorial to a Virtual Cemetery as you make the requests, which will make it easier for you to keep tabs those that are still pending.

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 9:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
The person who placed them in the wrong cemetery has refused to move them. so the edit tab will not work for. I copy and pasted her refusal in my original post..

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 2:00AM GMT
Classification: Query
Yes, I saw what you said about the memorial owner's response. That's why I suggested you contact a FAG administrator through their support link. This message board is not connected to FAG support, so you need to do more.

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 2:11AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 14 Jan 2015 2:40AM GMT
To elaborate on the advice given previously ("contact the support team" is quite vague and not very useful, isn't it?):

In the case where you have already received a refusal from the memorial manager, the next step is to forward your suggestion, along with the refusal, to the edit @ findagrave.com email address. You may include three memorials in each email to "edit". Response time is typically no more than a few weeks.

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 2:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
My apology for not catching that you had already received a refusal. The response to use the edit address is correct.

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 7:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
I have found several such cases as well, except when I've tried to contact the members about the errors, I see a "This member has turned off the message feature." No wonder if they know they have mistakes in their work. I've also found an increasing number of spurious additions to cemeteries - that is, a logical guess may indicate so-and-so is buried in a certain cemetery, so some FindAGrave members are adding people without proof. Some of my distant ancestors have been arbitrarily added to a cemetery in a completely different state. I've not found them where I expected them to be, but I've yet to find documentation that they up and moved 700 miles in their 60s. If there's no photo of the gravestone... no verbatim transcription of the wording on the stone... no specific information that they are indeed buried there, on what is the member basing the inclusion for that cemetery? I'm starting to wonder if some people are simply beefing up their numbers of "contributions."

Is anyone else finding this kind of thing more now that Ancestry has taken on FindAGrave? Is FaG on its way to becoming a sloppy pool of misinformation and errors? :-(

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 8:01PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jan 2015 8:06PM GMT
The problem you describe was occurring long before Ancestry became associated with FAG - as with the Ancestry trees, there always are people who are willing to declare as "fact" something that they only speculate to be true (often incorrectly). It's always best to be skeptical unless you see a photo of the gravestone, or a copy of the death cert, or something similar (IMO). In one case, where the memorial owner invented an alleged burial place for one of my ancestors (in a place he probably never went, as it was long before easy travel and, as you say, several hundred miles from his last known residence), I finally resorted to putting a note on the page to the general effect that it was nice to know he was remembered, even though there was no evidence to suggest that he had gone to that state, or died there. Eventually, the memorial was deleted, after many other descendants also barraged the memorial owner with corrections to his spurious entry.

By the way - even if the memorial owner has elected not to have messages on the home page, you still can send a message via the edit function, under the "any other information" link, for whatever good it will do. The owner should get an email with your message.

Re: people placing inaccurate information

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 8:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: people placing inaccurate information
The other day my friend and I found a whole family that has been put into find a grave with no proof that the people are buried there. The cemetery office has no record of them being buried there. We have not been able to find where they are buried.
Also someone went on to GenWeb and took all the info someone had posted that hundreds of people were buried at a certain cemetery. NO date birth or death, just listed all of them as unknown. We contacted the person who put the info on GenWeb the email came back. We told the person who put it up on find a grave that per the church these people are not there. The person will not take them down unless we prove to them these people are not there. Some of them we did find at other cemeteries in the area. It makes it hard to find a john smith with no dates attached.
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