"I have seen all sorts of problems with Find A Grave. My great grandfather's tombstone has a wrong birthdate"
A tombstone with the wrong birth date is hardly the fault of Find A Grave. A family member at the time commissioned the tombstone. There are any number of reasons as to how they had the wrong date. When I've found such I've written the contributor to the memorial and identified my source. Corrections have been made in such circumstances, with the memorial creator typically adding a note to explain the difference between the date on the headstone and the date identified in the memorial. Denise From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of CE WOOD Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 2:25 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fina a Grave duplicates AMEN!!! CE _____ From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> > on behalf of Sherry <hot.rod.w...@gmail.com <mailto:hot.rod.w...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 1:47 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fina a Grave duplicates I have seen all sorts of problems with Find A Grave. My great grandfather's tombstone has a wrong birthdate. FAG has a great granduncle married to a woman and fathering a child that was not at all possible. I thought SSDI shows where the benefits check was sent, not where the person is buried? My father died in California, was buried in Montana and the benefits check went to me in Washington. So the location for death can't be used for either death or burial location! I have seen bad information beget more bad information. When I see two secondary or tertiary sources "match", I don't take it as gospel until I find the *primary* source! Sherry On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Henry T. Peterson Jr. <hpete...@cox.net <mailto:hpete...@cox.net> > wrote: Ian I too have run across this. I use simple logic. Which one seems to be more accurate. (ie, tombstone with correct dates, burial location[does it correlate with SSDI], and sometimes I look at siblings, to see where there were buried.) Unfortunately you have to choose ONE memorial number. Henry From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> ] On Behalf Of Ian Macaulay Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 1:22 PM To: Legacy User Group <LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> > Subject: [LegacyUG] Fina a Grave duplicates Does any one know how to handle duplicate entries in Find a Grave in the new legacy field? What happens when a FAG number is deleted in Find a Grave after its been logged in Legacy? I am not worried about all this but I do have some 6000 FAG numbers in events that I would like to move to the FAG data window in Legacy 9, Just mentally running through possible traps. Ian -- ICMac Sales: Hobby consultant (1986r.) Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days Macaulay Genealogy Family Matters Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
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