Find-A-Grave

I have added a link to this resource (see the bottom of the page).  I have added many records when I found they were not listed and known some wonderful and helpful people.

 

Most of the people who volunteer are very nice and helpful. Some, though, are stinkers.  They can be identified by their making contact with them impossible. This is an area Find-A-Grave should work on to improve contact for complaints.

 

I had found a relative in Missouri a few years back, whose grave entry had been done by a volunteer who had died. I had tried to contact and no response and since the info he had loaded was so wrong, I was told to just add a correct entry.

 

Recently, I received a rather curt email telling me to remove this entry I had added and seeing they were also a relative, I removed the duplicate.  It would have been nice to have made contact with this distant relative, compare notes and see what other blanks might be filled as a result of two branches of a family getting together. 

 

Unfortunately, the woman had closed all means of communicating with her. Examining her profile page I read her instructions and comments on Find-A-Grave with growing dismay because they were the written equivalent of a stare and 'back-off buddy'!

 

It is hoped that people are all equally willing to be helpful and friendly. Especially when they are fruit from a common tree.  The truth is sometimes they are not.  Most of the time, however, people who do family history are friendly, eager to help, and live by a code of 'random acts of genealogy.'

 

I must just admit some branches will remain mysteries because people are unwilling to participate and share and connect to others in positive and meaningful ways.

 

Go out and do a random act of genealogy today. It will make someone happy.