TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - My current project (Legacy 9)
I have been doing genealogy a long time, long before Find a Grave (or any other website for that matter) existed. Back in the day you either visited the cemetery yourself or you used a cemetery survey book. I have A LOT of people that have a cemetery survey book as a source. A picture of the actual tombstone is better evidence than a transcription of the tombstone in a cemetery survey book so I have tagged everyone in my file that uses a cemetery book as a source (easy to do on the Master Source List). I am using the tag navigation tool in the extreme bottom right corner of the Family View to go from person to person. It looks like this I:2. In this case I am using Individual Tag 2. You can navigate by using the forward and backward arrows and you can change the tag number by clicking in the center of that button. I am using the new FaG tool to help my find these people on Find a Grave. 1) If there is a FaG memorial with a photo, I add the FaG number to the new FaG field, I create a new source and I delete the old one, and I ask permission of the photographer to download the photograph to my file. I then untag the person. 2) If there is a FaG memorial without a photo, I request a photo and I untag this person but I then tag them on another dedicated tag letting me know that I am in a holding pattern. I do not change my source citation. I never use FaG as a source unless there is a photograph. 3) If there is no FaG memorial, I add one. I know the person is buried there because I have a cemetery survey book that says so. When I create the memorial I put full source citation to the book and I request a photo. I then untag them from this tag and tag them on the other tag (my holding pattern one). Again, I don't change my source, not until I have a photograph. So what happens if I request a photo and the FaG volunteer advises that there is no marker? Then my cemetery book remains the best evidence. Some of the books I use are quite old and I have found many instances where the marker existed in 1925 but it doesn't exist anymore. In that case I will make a note on the memorial with a full citation to the book. I add that FaG volunteer Jane Doe #12345679 searched the cemetery and found no marker. I started working on this yesterday. I only have 1245 more people to go :) Michele Simmons Lewis, CG Legacy Family Tree mich...@legacyfamilytree.com <mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> www.legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/> Certified Genealogist is a registered trademark and the designation CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of GenealogistsR, used under license by Board certificants who meet competency standards.
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