Find-A-Grave Clean Up

Not sure how I feel about this, but ...

I have been cleaning up my database management system and filing some of my documentation. I was focusing on my Find-A-Grave sources. Did I find a shocker today. It appears that about 35 of Find-A-Grave memorials have been removed from the website. The good news is, that I had printed these memorials on paper so that I could mark them up.

As I was researching a small branch, I had come across a number of Memorials, on Find-A-Grave, where the burial (Cemetery) location was listed as "unknown". All from the SAME contributor. I thought it strange but those memorials confirmed some of the information that I already had and filled out a couple of families.

A couple of weeks ago, I was doing to research on this "unknown" cemeteries when I saw a picture of one of the memorials. Picture without a Cemetery? Strange ..... so I contacted the photographer, who had the same issue I did. Unable to contact the "owner" of the memorial. So I was back looking into these unknown cemeteries AND was working on my Citations for these burial facts. I changed how I was formatting the Citations, to bring them into the Evidence Explained!! format.

This is when I found all of these missing "Memorial Not Found" error messages. Since there wasn't a Cemetery listed, I did some searching for the Memorial Number, which I had from the print out. Memorial Not Found.

Since I knew a couple of cemeteries where they might have been, know the County they were in, I did some searching on Find-A-Grave. Still didn't find.

Sure, I have paper copies, and I was trying to get rid of the paper, so I am not sure how I feel about not having the back up, from Find-A-Grave, link to the memorial. All this means to me is back to researching these missing memorials.

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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington

Tombstone Tuesday - Johns, Kinsey

Kinsey Johns

son of Richard and Nancy Ridgely Worthington

January 6 1825 - August 5 1827

 

Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery
3738 Butler Road
Reisterstown
Baltimore County
Maryland  21136 

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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington

Tombstone Tuesday - Hood, Sarah Smith (Howard)

 Sarah Smith Howard Hood

Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery
3738 Butler Road
Reisterstown
Baltimore County
Maryland  21136

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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington

Tombstone Tuesday - Worthington, Mary Govan (Hood)

Mary Gavan Hood Worthington

wife of John Tolly Worthington

July 31 1813 - January 20 1892

In Loving memory
Mary Govan widow of John Tolly Worthington
daughter of James Hood of JWG and Sarah Smith Howard his wife
July 31st 1831 - January 20, 1892
For so He giveth His beloved sleep

Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery
3738 Butler Road
Reisterstown
Baltimore County
Maryland  21136

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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington

Tombstone Tuesday - Cipriani, Leonetto W

Leonetto W Cipriani

son of Mary T Worthington

and

Leonetto Cipriani

February 28, 1860 - September 25, 1905

Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery
3738 Butler Road
Reisterstown
Baltimore County
Maryland  21136

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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington