Findagrave hints
The places on findagrave hints are frequently not the place matching the actual grave. This will cause burial places to be entered incorrectly to the person without viewing the image, which some may not do.
Use the location from findagrave!!!!
Answers
-
There is a current known problem with Findagrave hints and place names. You'll find multiple threads on the topic.
Several threads are linked in this post:3 -
While I will always attach Findagrave sources in SourceLinker; I will also open findagrave and copy the actual cemetery name/location to paste into the Burial detail in FS.
in SourceLinker it will only bring over the city/state and not the cemetery name.As always, be mindful of vitals posted in Findagrave. These are input by humans and are not primary sources. Only a photo of the headstone in a location confirms as primary source a burial location. Actual carved Headstone dates can also have inaccuracies (although they will be accurate or close more often than not.) Use all these vitals given on Findagrave as secondary confirmation of your other contemporary sources, as a springboard to start you with dates and locations to start with; and another piece in the puzzle to create a good average concensus of dates, locations, name spellings, relationships, etc.
2 -
Ok, I see more specifically what Carolyn is talking about. (didn't notice it before, see my prior comments as to how I've been utilizing Findagrave sources.) They must be trying to get the SourceLinker program to pick up the Cemetery name and location automatically, to allow a quick add to the FS tree more easily.
What I saw just this afternoon was Cemetery Name A, some city/county, Indianna. What Findagrave actually had was: Cemetery Name A, some city/county, Ohio.
The auto populate of standard placenames is probably taking the first matching cemetery name w/o following with a County / State query to confirm. How many 'Forest Grove Cemeterys' are there in America. There are many common cemetery names that are re-used over and over.
Double check your work always. If there is an attached image to a source - Always personally review said image as part of your source linking. Many times you can glean additional information that is not pulled out in regular indexing.
Happy tree building and pruning!
2 -
@Jack Hern the Find a Grave cemetery placenames issue has been discussed and reported,
and is now being looked at by the engineers.
2
