Kathy Birmingham

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As of now (27 Jul 2023) I am requesting that you as the suggester include the information supporting the changes you are making. It will make it easier to verify. Yes, I am aware birth information, death information, can sometimes be very difficult to obtain even in the internet days. These documents can be wrong also, including birth, death, obituaries and the numerous indexes that are out there. Also, especially in the early years some of it may not have even been documented. I will not post the death certificates etc. If you have a copy of the documentation but didn't access it online, you may e-mail it to me through Find A Grave. This is the reason I do not shut of messages on the profile page.

I do my research through Ancestry so if you have links through ancestry you may include those in the note section on the edit page
Family Search and Geneanet Community Trees are not acceptable sources. You will need to get the actual documentation.

With the recent changes to Find A Grave, my recent experience has been that the new Notes section will usually hold the information for the change and the links. Those notes appear to stay with the memorial manager and with the suggester so if there is a question either of us can go back and review. If it doesn't hold it all I either break my changes down and put the documentation in the notes, and save. I go back in and do the next set, rinse and repeat. The other option, is I put a note telling the manager to look for the documentation in the contact manager section (yes, even if the manager is "not taking messages" it will still get through using the contact manager.

Like many of you I have large parts of my tree where I haven't got all the information so quoting me may not be your best answer. I will be honest and tell you that I haven't finished that person. I will go and look at what you have, and if matches what I would have or if it fill in a blank for me I will process it and not reject it as it doesn't match what I have. If it does not match, I will give you my source and we can discuss where either one of us went astray.

In a few cases, I may not have the documentation, but I know the family and have spoken with them, and most of the time that is sufficient.
As for burials Unknow, yes, I have a few out there, but they are family. If I have a change and someone else has created the memorial as a Burial Unknown, you can now go in and make a suggestion to update the information.

If the manager doesn't respond it will go through the automatic approval. I personally dislike creating the new memorial and then merging them.

I am not opposed to transferring a memorial to another person even outside of Find A Grave guidelines, however I reserve the right to hold onto those that are in my family.
~Thank you all, for all you do as contributors to Find A Grave. Without you I'd still be working in the dark ages.

As of now (27 Jul 2023) I am requesting that you as the suggester include the information supporting the changes you are making. It will make it easier to verify. Yes, I am aware birth information, death information, can sometimes be very difficult to obtain even in the internet days. These documents can be wrong also, including birth, death, obituaries and the numerous indexes that are out there. Also, especially in the early years some of it may not have even been documented. I will not post the death certificates etc. If you have a copy of the documentation but didn't access it online, you may e-mail it to me through Find A Grave. This is the reason I do not shut of messages on the profile page.

I do my research through Ancestry so if you have links through ancestry you may include those in the note section on the edit page
Family Search and Geneanet Community Trees are not acceptable sources. You will need to get the actual documentation.

With the recent changes to Find A Grave, my recent experience has been that the new Notes section will usually hold the information for the change and the links. Those notes appear to stay with the memorial manager and with the suggester so if there is a question either of us can go back and review. If it doesn't hold it all I either break my changes down and put the documentation in the notes, and save. I go back in and do the next set, rinse and repeat. The other option, is I put a note telling the manager to look for the documentation in the contact manager section (yes, even if the manager is "not taking messages" it will still get through using the contact manager.

Like many of you I have large parts of my tree where I haven't got all the information so quoting me may not be your best answer. I will be honest and tell you that I haven't finished that person. I will go and look at what you have, and if matches what I would have or if it fill in a blank for me I will process it and not reject it as it doesn't match what I have. If it does not match, I will give you my source and we can discuss where either one of us went astray.

In a few cases, I may not have the documentation, but I know the family and have spoken with them, and most of the time that is sufficient.
As for burials Unknow, yes, I have a few out there, but they are family. If I have a change and someone else has created the memorial as a Burial Unknown, you can now go in and make a suggestion to update the information.

If the manager doesn't respond it will go through the automatic approval. I personally dislike creating the new memorial and then merging them.

I am not opposed to transferring a memorial to another person even outside of Find A Grave guidelines, however I reserve the right to hold onto those that are in my family.
~Thank you all, for all you do as contributors to Find A Grave. Without you I'd still be working in the dark ages.

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