How to Confirm Information You Find on Find A Grave for Genealogy

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3 жыл бұрын

Find A Grave for genealogy is a great resource...for clues! Researcher beware! Pictures, dates, biographies, and seemingly complete family trees can be found on Find A Grave, but how do you know it is accurate? You don't until you do your own research with vital records and more!
Learn a few tips in today's Genealogy Tip Tuesday video of how to verify information on Find A Grave.
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@liberty8442 3 жыл бұрын

You always do such a great job of teaching. I love Find A Grave! I’ve found some great info this way. I may have been caught in the trap before but usually compare to other sources. 💕😉

@TheGenealogyReporter 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Windy!

@samuelvink1482 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, I became worried about find a grave after I noticed that the family members weren't always on the gravestones in the photos. Now, contacting the contributors sounds great but as we could see with K Roberts, sometimes they have done hundreds of edits. Isn't it a bit unfair to expect them to respond to so many people asking them the same thing? Is there not a way for them to publicly denote their source?

@TheGenealogyReporter 3 жыл бұрын

You have brought up a great point, Samuel. I definitely think that some of the contributors may be overwhelmed with questions as to where they got their information. I have seen a few people cite their source for biographical or obituary information and that is always a great help. This might be something Find A Grave should encourage their contributors to do. It's a great suggestion!