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Find a Grave : 7 Strategies for a successful Grave Searching

Find a Grave for the World is the largest collection of gravestone records and that's free for all. use these seven strategies to finding an ancestoru2019s tombstone.

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Find a Grave : 7 Strategies for a successful Grave Searching

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  1. Find a Grave : 7 Strategies for a successful Grave Searching genealogisthelp.com/find-a-grave By Admin November 16, 2020 In addition, we will discuss about how to Find a Grave and increase your family history. Find a Grave is home to over 190 million gravestone memorials around the world and the numbers only keep increasing every year. Volunteers and relatives have contributed about 170 million images of not only tombstones but also of people and genealogical documents. The site was acquired by Ancestry.com in 2013. This article will list down seven strategies For Find a Grave:- NAME SEARCH For Find a Grave Choose relative, even one whose burial place you already know- try to see what you can find. Follow these steps on the home page: Enter at least a surname and narrow your results by adding a birth or death year. Add a burial location or last know residence if known. After That, Click More Search Option to include similar name spelling/partial surname matches in search results. Try using wildcard characters for unknown letters in name. You may not find entries on your first try. However, just keep looking until you find a relative and then explore his or her memorials. LOOK FOR OTHER RELATIVES BURIED NEARBY There are many memorials which link to additional memorial for the deceased first- degree relatives. Likewise, These names can help confirm that you’ve found the right memorial or give you new research leads to follow. Relatives whose memorials aren’t linked together For such cases, follow these steps: Go to the right side of a memorial Choose among options to search for memorials with the same surname in the same cemetery or in the surrounding geographical area. VERIFY HISTORICAL EVIDENCES Make sure to double check the reliability of the evidences you find. For every date, place or family relationship, evaluate its authenticity. By verifying, you will help build a more accurate tree and may lead to additional family discoveries. How to check and save your evidence: 1/3

  2. To check the reliability of your data, try following these procedures: Scrutinize any tombstone image. They may spell out names, dates, places and even family relationships that you need to confirm. Review other evidences, such as images of birth or death certificate or obituaries. Extract all information into your family tree and cite your sources Attach the memorial to someone on your Ancestry tree by clicking Save To and select Ancestry You can also attach memorials to FamilySearch’s Family Tree Log in to FamilySearch Go to Family Tree and navigate to the right person page Search for the Find a Grave memorial and attach it Follow up with additional research to verify and complete what you see on Find a Grave LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CEMENTRY In each memorial, you will find a link to a landing page for the burial ground. The details on the page may vary. There will be several standard items that will appear at the top- alternative names, location and map link, cemetery office phone number etc. All these items will provide a lot of valuable information for anyone wanting to locate additional burial records and so on. THANK VOLUNTEERS AND COLLABORATE WITH RELATIVES Most Find a Grave contributors are either local volunteers or relatives. Sometimes memorials are created by a local and the relatives fill in with any additional resources. How to contact the contributors Click on View Source by the Memorial ID number. You will see a link to the user profile of the memorial creator and current manager. Click on user profile to contact contributors NOTE: Do not forget to thank them for their efforts and contribution! Check the submitters’ user profile to see whether it gives permission to use their images before you copy, download or use pictures shared on Find a Grave ADDITIONAL INFORMATION In order to share any information that you might have known or stumbled across, follow these steps given down below: Create a free login Click Suggest Edits Information already in the memorial will auto fill in the appropriate boxes. You can now add or edit any information you want. Click Save Suggestions to send the edits to the manager. 2/3

  3. NOTE: To add images or digitized documents, just click Add Photos from the memorial page. LEAVE A PERSOANL MEMENTO You can leave a virtual flower and note to show that you have come by. Simply click on flowers > Leave a Flower. You do not have to travel any distance to honor the past and pay respect to your ancestors. In Find a Grave’s virtual cemeteries the flowers will never wilt. If you are looking for the support you can visit our website Genealogist Help or you can call us our number +1-888-299-3207. 3/3

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