This has been an interesting thread.
Regarding the occasions where you may
find a duplicate FAG entries for the same person, be aware there
may very well be two legitimate entries for a single individual.
Consider the instance where a person may have died a long way from
home and the family could not afford to have the remains shipped
home. The person would have been buried where they died and the
family would install a marker in the family plot. This marker,
which looks exactly like a grave stone, is called a cenotaph. Some
times there will be a note in the FAG entry denoting this. Other
times you will have to use your genealogy detective skills to
determine the burial location and the cenotaph location. If you
are able to definitively establish which is which, notify the
maintainers of each of your findings so each can enter this
information and enter a reference to the other to assist others
who encounter this pair.
I enter the burial location number in
the FAG field as the burial location and I enter the cenotaph
number as a comment in the comments field in the source detail.
I have created a master source for each
cemetery with this format:
Cemetery - Find A Grave, Alex Cockram
Cemetery, FAG ID2246704.
This helps in keeping things in order.
I also tag everyone in my database as
follows:
Has a FAG # - Tag 7
has a burial location: - 6
no FAG - 5
When i find a FAG entry I clear 5 and
6.
I don't expect that everyone will
follow this guide but I find it helps to make information easily
available for research.
This post has been long enough so I
will save other comments for another time.
Good hunting,
Gene
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On 2/3/2024 9:37 AM, Helen Gillespie
wrote:
Ive had someone add false family info- wrong parents and siblings etc - and i sent proof of error to the submitter and they removed it.Helen Gillespie. Ottawa Canada Sent from my iPhoneOn Feb 3, 2024, at 6:11 AM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: On 03/02/2024 03:03, Ian Thomas wrote:As a side issue, I have found FAG memorials including photos, for individuals who died and were buried elsewhere – with no mention that the Memorial is not in the burial or death place. In fact, for 3 instances, the birth and death places in the FAG memorial text asserts that they actually died in that place (Australian state #1), when it was actually at another (Australian state #2) which is more than 300km distant.Unless I have other proof that the person is actually buried where FAG says the Memorial is, I do not record the FAG entry as a Burial event, but simply as a "general" Event entitled "Memorial Inscription" which reads something like "Memorial Inscription: A Gravestone in XYZ Cemetery, Cemetery Address, bears the inscription 'Joe Bloggs, son of Jack, died 01 January 1801. Rest in Peace.'" If I had proof that the FAG entry is incorrect I would message the person maintaining that entry. I don't think I've had to do that so far, but on several occasions I have provided additional information which has been accepted and recorded. -- Jenny M Benson Wrexham, UK -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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