so i am going along on find a grave and i run across a contributor who apparently does not know what that shift key is for so i thought i would write my next blog as she has posted memorials and bios note that i am also not using puncuation because that would just get in my away too this made me realize that my keyboard could be a lot smaller since i dont use all of the keys
Oh, I can’t do this anymore! I am not asking for English scholars and I will even accept a misspelled word now and then, but come on! If you are creating a lasting public memorial for a deceased person at least have the common courtesy of using capital letters and puncuation! The whole idea for this website is to honor those who have passed. This is just saying “I don’t really care how this looks, I just want to rush and increase my count.”
Thank you for allowing me to vent!
I’ve been adding graves and photos to Find A Grave. As I am taking some of these pictures, I realize that in a short time many of these will no longer be legible and the chance for somebody to see what their ancestors tombstone looked like will be lost forever.
I do have one complaint. For some reason during the 1800′s folks in Ohio (and maybe other areas) decided that instead of having a birth and death date on their marker, they would only list a death date as well as their age in years, months, and days. This would then require the use birth date calculator or else the date would show up as “unknown” in the FAG database. This also requires double the amount of work and is a real pain in the neck, but I patiently do this because it was the “fad” at the time.
Also since my last post a LONG time ago, I finally made it to the Campbell Family Cemetery in Covington County, Alabama. It was an enjoyable adventure. After leaving the dirt road, we traveled down a logging road for .8 miles before coming to the little cemetery. It was very nice to see that the caretaker of the land keeps the cemetery cleaned up and in good condition. He said that he always called it the Confederate Cemetery because of so many Confederate Soldiers buried there. I told him that those soldiers were the sons of one man.
Hello and welcome to my Blog! Many times while I am compiling genealogy information, I encounter some very strange or very interesting tidbits that don’t really seem to have a place on the website but are interesting all the same! I also find myself with questions that I am sure others have pondered as well, and many times I find unique solutions to trying to locate a piece of information that would be a good source for fellow researchers. So I decided to use this blog as a “collect-all” for all of these types of instances. I hope you enjoy!
