Missing uncle in cemetery search
Why does my granduncle not show up in the "See what cemeteries your relatives are in" search page when I put in Oak Grove Cemetery, Manistee, Manistee, Michigan, United States?
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Ken Warren [phone number removed for privacy]
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@KenWarren This is usually a standardization issue. Can you share the PID so we can take a look at the specifics?
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@KenWarren - while @shecorwe might be right with the suggestion of a standardisation issue, when it comes to the Cemeteries search, it's far more likely that the data simply isn't in FamilySearch for your granduncle.
We believe that the data available to that search comes from FindAGrave or BillionGraves. (There is a theoretical possibility of manual input but I don't think it's used much).
We have no idea whether the FamilySearch cemetery search data has been updated since its initial creation.
We have no idea what else is necessary for people to appear in the search facility - experiments suggested that the profiles needed burial data in the vital events but whether there are other subtleties (such as which place is used for standardisation), we simply don't know.
@shecorwe - if you can access detailed explanations (ie more than the initial blog post) and answers, particularly to whether the data is being updated, we'd all be grateful, particularly as this facility is queried a couple of times a year.
Of course, having typed all the above, Murphy's Law might mean that the answer to the OP's original question is something different!
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The relevant profile: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LTBY-518
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@KenWarren I'm not sure why Gerald Ostrander is not showing in the Oak Grove Cemetery database, but you can add him here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/cemeteries/sites/266354/oak-grove-cemetery?page=0&pageSize=50&relativeId=&showOriginal=false&sortOrder=asc&famousPeople=false&sortBy=lastName&showMap=false&relativesOnly=false&personName=ostrander&placeId=&siteName=
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