In my many years of research I have uncovered important facts with cemeteries. Record keeping was poor, and many burials were not recorded, were recorded under name misspellings, were misfiled or just couldn't be found such as in St Patrick's Cemetery in Chesterton, Indiana. There are many burials in that cemetery that were never recorded and no one knows where some of the deceased were actually buried. Term graves were common in most of the larger cemeteries. Burial records were also lost to time such as at Old Augusta Cemetery in Pike County Indiana. The McCord family was in possession of the original burial records for that cemetery and when the church was dissolved, the records were stored in a trailer and then lost when the family moved to Peoria Illinois and the family died out. If a death certificate or an obituary states a person was buried in a particular cemetery but the cemetery records claim there is no record of burial in the cemetery, that does not mean the person wasn't buried there. I no longer accept edits removing a burial from a cemetery to 'burial unknown' because cemetery records don't reflect a burial. You must have documentation or even a headstone photo proving that the deceased was buried somewhere else and then I will move the memorial

RULES -- https://www.ancestry.com/c/legal/community-rules
HELP — https://support.findagrave.com/s/
REQUEST TO MANAGE — https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Request-to-Manage

Transfers are within findagrave policy. If you don't know what the policy is, look in the Help section. State your relationship when asking. If you don't fall within the transfer guidelines, your request will be ignored.

I do not transfer my family members.
I do not transfer bulk name or bulk family requests.

I do not link to burial unknowns. See: -- https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Non-Cemetery-Burials

I do not add military titles to the memorials. Unless the deceased died while in the military or retired after a lifetime service, military titles are not to be placed on the memorial. If you want a military title on the memorial, add it to the inscription area.

Do not send me messages through the edit feature. Use "contact manager" for messages.
Edits with messages in them will be declined.

If my account name isn't under a picture on a memorial, I can't remove it. Please contact the person who uploaded it and ask them. If there are two names at the bottom of a memorial and my name is on top, that means I didn't create the memorial, I just assumed management of it. I can't delete the memorial.

Any obituary, photo, bio information or document uploaded is not a copyright violation and is covered under the Fair Use Law if used for research or genealogical purposes. The information within or connected to my memorials is not to be sold for profit.

In my many years of research I have uncovered important facts with cemeteries. Record keeping was poor, and many burials were not recorded, were recorded under name misspellings, were misfiled or just couldn't be found such as in St Patrick's Cemetery in Chesterton, Indiana. There are many burials in that cemetery that were never recorded and no one knows where some of the deceased were actually buried. Term graves were common in most of the larger cemeteries. Burial records were also lost to time such as at Old Augusta Cemetery in Pike County Indiana. The McCord family was in possession of the original burial records for that cemetery and when the church was dissolved, the records were stored in a trailer and then lost when the family moved to Peoria Illinois and the family died out. If a death certificate or an obituary states a person was buried in a particular cemetery but the cemetery records claim there is no record of burial in the cemetery, that does not mean the person wasn't buried there. I no longer accept edits removing a burial from a cemetery to 'burial unknown' because cemetery records don't reflect a burial. You must have documentation or even a headstone photo proving that the deceased was buried somewhere else and then I will move the memorial

RULES -- https://www.ancestry.com/c/legal/community-rules
HELP — https://support.findagrave.com/s/
REQUEST TO MANAGE — https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Request-to-Manage

Transfers are within findagrave policy. If you don't know what the policy is, look in the Help section. State your relationship when asking. If you don't fall within the transfer guidelines, your request will be ignored.

I do not transfer my family members.
I do not transfer bulk name or bulk family requests.

I do not link to burial unknowns. See: -- https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Non-Cemetery-Burials

I do not add military titles to the memorials. Unless the deceased died while in the military or retired after a lifetime service, military titles are not to be placed on the memorial. If you want a military title on the memorial, add it to the inscription area.

Do not send me messages through the edit feature. Use "contact manager" for messages.
Edits with messages in them will be declined.

If my account name isn't under a picture on a memorial, I can't remove it. Please contact the person who uploaded it and ask them. If there are two names at the bottom of a memorial and my name is on top, that means I didn't create the memorial, I just assumed management of it. I can't delete the memorial.

Any obituary, photo, bio information or document uploaded is not a copyright violation and is covered under the Fair Use Law if used for research or genealogical purposes. The information within or connected to my memorials is not to be sold for profit.