I understand that - my comment is that you can't *trust* what you find on Find A Grave to be accurate. One of the bonuses is tombstone pictures, but that doesn't mean the information on the tombstone *or* the information transcribed and placed on Find A Grave is accurate.
Sometimes people take these things as gospel. We need to be careful and get the *primary* documentation.... The spurious marriage and child for my ancestor was somehow "estimated" by Find A Grave. Bad information can be posted on a website and *must* be confirmed by the primary documentation - i.e., birth date from birth record, death date from death record, etc. A newbie would assume that what they find on the site is correct, but it's not always. I have written to people who have posted memorials to let them know they posted bad info..... most of them are just transcribing tombstones and have no idea if the info is correct or not. However, we're getting way far from Legacy in this thread.... Sherry On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Denise Moss-Fritch <d.mossfri...@comcast.net > wrote: > “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 >
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