change to links to findagrave
It seems to me that the way family search links to findagrave sources has changed and it's frustrating. I used to be able to enter and then later click on a findagrave source for a family member. Clicking on the attached source took me directly to findagrave. At that website I could often see attached obituaries, images of death certificates and photos of the headstone (to verify extracted information). Now when I click on the findagrave source attached to a family member it takes me to a family search screen with some extracted information. It's so annoying. I have to pull up another screen, go to the findagrave website, enter in the person's information, and let findagrave show me the headstone and any extra attached information. This is a pain and a waste of time. Could we please go back to how it used to be?
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Not sure how you fix this, I have the opposite problem. People are using "Find a Grave" as an unsourced family tree, where the "burial details are unknown", and then they just make up who they think is connected to another person - typically based on someone else's unsourced family tree ... so you have all these unsourced trees - including Find A Grave - pointing at each other like the fact that you repeated something 1000 times means it is suddenly a source. If there are no sources on the Find A Grave site, it shouldn't be considered a "source".
Now on the other hand, if it actually has photos of the tombstone and an actual physical address of the cemetary where the gravesite is located, etc. That IS a source.
The way Find A Grave is set up makes their pages questionable - you actually do need to go to the site and see whether it is just someone's unsourced tree, or if it is a page for an actual grave site/tombstone.
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