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You can still add the full unpiped url, it just won't be linked. I do this with all memorials that I manage or create. Thanks, I'm loving all the ideas. Related questions. Tombstone photos are huge! Utilize Graveyard Name, Bio and Relatives?
Recent Activity Hot Questions. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. All this and more with just a few taps. The basic functionality of the app is definitely there. You can search by individuals or find cemeteries based on simple data searches.
It needs to be a more flexible search parameter setup. Maybe even tie it into Google live GPS services so we can actually track where we are in the cemetery as we move about. THAT would be the best and most logical extension of all our curated and stored cemeteries and favorited graves. Find a Grave is a great to in our ancestry. If used correctly. The biggest downfall with this is people only caring about their numbers.
They get information from funeral homes and create memorials immediately. This leaves people who want to manage close friends and or family members outside the guidelines unable to be the manager. They also use the pictures provided to the funeral homes. To me find a grave is exactly that- finding the grave. Not create a memorial. Just wish there was a cap or something to keep these people from grabbing all memorials. Or at least not make them immediately upon publishing.
This previously working app stopped working due to a recent change at FamilySearch I presume. It says an update is required. Find a Grave is a volunteer project. People add information about cemeteries to the site to help identify the final disposition information of people buried there. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the volunteers have added.
For more information about the cemetery or burials within it, you should contact the cemetery directly. Why can't I find a memorial when I know there is a grave?
People add information to the site by walking a cemetery and taking pictures, or from obituaries, other records or from information they have about family members. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. If you can't find someone on the site, it's probably just because no one has added them yet.