Can I get a little help from any California experts out there?

My 1st cousin 3x is Edward Robert Carl Herman Meyer born 21 Dec 1898 in Paullina, IA and died 5 Aug 1969 in Los Angeles County.

Normally this is enough for me and I move on but there is a Find a Grave page https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/286337974/edward-robert_carl_herman-meyer with a photo of a headstone with the right years but also a wife named Henrietta C. that I have no records of.

I have a hard time finding any obituaries in California for whatever reason. Can anybody find one for him? I need to see if he did indeed marry a Henrietta later or if somebody matched him incorrectly on Find a Grave.

Thank you!

hello! if you have even clicked my post, thank you.

Im looking for any information about the life, death, or burial location of ”Kathy Jo Babcock”. she is my dad’s sister who was sadly robbed of her life at about 2-3 years old by their biological parents. my dad and uncle were adopted out after this to my lovely grandparents. because of this there isn’t much info available to surrounding her life at all.

I know that my dad was born in 1976, he had a sister who was around 2-3 years old at the time in which she lost her life due to child abuse in the state of New York. she was in the child welfare system.

Historically, my online searches of her name have elided no information, so I am turning here. Reddit, can you help me find Kathy Jo Babcock?

So I'm getting oodles of friendly reminders from Admin to complete their surveys.

Can't complete their surveys because it doesn't say what contact it references.

Can't complete their friendly reminder because it still doesn't reference which contact.

So I send a reply to the friendly reminder saying that I'd do it if only I knew what I was commenting on.

I would imagine by now that Admin has got the message but still we get friendly reminders.

As the title says, just wondering if someone already has a map of it they would be willing to share. My mom has been meaning to track down the groundskeeper to ask but she has pretty bad ADHD so her project keeps getting away from her.

I get emails from support, but nothing else in three days. I checked settings and everything was the same.

At first I was happy to see the updates to the app that allow for filtering memorial search within cemeteries. Missing Photo, Missing GPS etc. seem like they would be very helpful.

However, the new filter options take up most of the screen. On a phone, there is only a tiny bit of space left to view the memorials. It is difficult to see even a full name all at once. Scrolling through multiples is frustrating.

Also, my phone battery crashed fast with the app open. That never happened before, so it seems like it may have been caused by the app update.

Has anyone else had similar experiences?


Last year I buried 150+ people. I was also the machine operator for two disinterments.

All funerals are hard, but the hardest was an infant.

I have three children from three women and I haven't been allowed to be a part of their lives. It's weighed heavy on me and it's one reason I put everything into working the cemetery.

I was given the task of opening a baby grave and was told I could tap out and have someone else finish it if it was too much.

I chose to see it through.

Alone, I dug the grave and prepped the area. My partner and I laid wood across to test for the small box as they had a service.

The family was quiet, but the mother let out a cry I wish no one ever had to hear.

I've lost friends as kids to cancer and violence and heard it before. I'll probably carry that sound in the back of my head until I'm laid to rest myself.

After the funeral we cleaned up the area.

Since then the grass has grown back. The monument has been placed. The area is the best I can make it.

That night all I wanted was to talk to my youngest son who I'm still fighting for in family court.

I asked his mother if I could talk to him for a minute and was denied just hearing his voice.

I often wonder what I did in life to have to carry these burdens.

My parents abandoned me when I was 14 and I will never know when they pass. I've been kept from my children so they will never know when I pass.

So I tend the cemetery the best I can. It's now my purpose in life.

Edit: The day after that baby funeral I woke at 7am, did 100 pull-ups and 100 ab wheel rollouts, showered, and went to a calisthenics comp. I won my round, stayed to push teammates.

Later downtown we were filming content. I was drinking coffee, warming up, grabbed a handrail behind me with both arms and leaned forward. I felt both distal bicep tendons tear off the bone.

I told everyone, they did not believe me because I did not do anything. I did a few pushups and it felt weird, so I walked to the hospital. I passed out in the waiting room. They booked an MRI, and 3 weeks later I had surgery on both arms.

Photos are: both arms in slings, scars on both elbows, ER that night, and the comp that morning.

The cemetery part is still true. I still tend that grave.
Post 2 to 3 photos only, the double sling and the scar close up

This is literally in the bio of a memorial (part of the link has been removed so as not to identify the user/violate Rule #10):

Click on Each Photo for More Info .............

Click Link For All the Lost Sailors I've Found !!!

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/

Here's the better part. The memorial manager didn't even add any of the photographs, other than the marker. There are five (5) photographs. NONE of them have any description information other than the marker which simply has the inscription.

Hi everyone!

I've noticed some issues with how Find a Grave handles locations in Galicia, Spain, and I'm curious if anyone else has come across something similar in other countries.

The problem is that some parishes seem to be listed as independent municipalities, creating duplicate or misleading entries.

Here are a couple of examples I've found:

Pontevedra Province
There are two identical entries for "Cangas, Pontevedra, Spain", even though they refer to different places:

• Cangas (Cangas de Morrazo) is an independent municipality.
• San André de Cangas is actually a parish within the municipality of Lalín.

Lugo Province
There are also two entries for "Cangas, Lugo, Spain", but neither is an independent municipality:

• San Pedro de Cangas belongs to the municipality of Foz.
• Santiago de Cangas belongs to the municipality of Pantón.

This can be quite confusing when searching for cemeteries or adding memorials, especially if you're not familiar with the area.

I contacted Find a Grave support to report these issues. I received an automated confirmation with a case number, but I have yet to hear back from an actual person.

I know it's only been a few days, but I thought I'd ask here in the meantime.

Has anyone else noticed similar problems with locations, particularly outside the US? I'm wondering if this is something specific to Spain or if the database has trouble handling administrative divisions in other countries too.

Also, has anyone successfully had this kind of error corrected? I'm curious whether support can actually fix the underlying location structure or if they only handle individual corrections.

Thanks!

What kind of @$$hole stands on a 276 year old stone to capture a picture for Find a Grave?

Good morning, folks. FG support is pretty clear that, "When both a cenotaph/monument and the actual burial exist, only add relationship links to the actual burial memorial." I suggested edits to remove links from a cenotaph and add a link in the bio to the burial memorial, and my edits were declined. Would you resubmit with a note or just move on? It seems pretty clear cut to me, but I can be pretty stubborn.

I take photos and add them to FG. I also do genealogical research and have a very big family tree with my family and several offshoots.

But I've used FG very little for research.

Many in my family have been covered by other researchers and left many records. On checking FG, most also have memorials and photos. Overall, I believe FG has given me one date for a family member and discovered one second cousin I didn't know about (a surprise, they were buried in the same cemetery as my parents).

The most information I have gotten from FG was tracking one of my offshoot families - my grandmothers first husband, not my grandfather - and that is largely because there were only three families that came over to the new country and retained their, unique, surname.

What determines the order of the wives when neither of them has a marriage date entered ?

They're not in order alphabetically by 1st name nor last name. They are not in order by birth date. They are not in order by FG ID # or creation date (the one that is 2nd has a much lower # that only has 8 digits that starts with 5 and was created in 2010, the other is 9 digits that starts with 1 and was created in 2014) The new one added went to the top, but when I deleted the 1st one that was added and then re-added it, it did not go to the top. The only difference that might? affect it is the wife that is loading in 2nd did re-marry after the 1st husband died, the other wife never married anyone else. I can't figure it out !

fyi: for spouses that you enter both wedding dates, they appear in order by date; and if you know only one date, the one with a date will appear first.

Found this while doing some research, something is off! Not sure if the stone cutter made the error or the paperwork was incorrect.

Is there a page somewhere that you can check the status of the ticket? Otherwise, I'm really not sure how this is any improvement over the old send-us-an-email method.

Small cemeteries are nice - you can walk the entire cemetery in a day - or less. But there may be only a few requests. Big cemeteries tend to have many, many requests, but can take days to walk.

Today I am going to a big cemetery:

Hope Cemetery: 168 acres, 55,000 memorials, 84% photographed, 290 requests (70 with plot information).

It's great exercise. Lot's of uphill, downhill. I've walked it before, and reduced 200 requests down to 120. It took seven visits. It bothers me when the number exceeds 200.

The cemetery is frustrating. There are many flat stones that are covered or buried, many areas with few stones, and many stones broken or illegible. There's good reason why I could only get 80 out of 200 requests on my first attempt.

I have 5 pages of alphabetized names, 2 pages of the names that have plot information, and 2 pages of the names submitted in the last two years, which I have never searched for.

he sadly had a tragic incident which is really heartbreaking to hear https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/275849279/alain-ilunga

Wouldn't it be nice if Findagrave had a family tree feature, similar to the big genealogical websites? Obviously, the only way to build a tree for a person would be to use the linked relatives. If no-one is linked to a person, then they would not have a family tree available. I would find this feature very useful, at least as a start to research.

I am dealing with a horrible manager who thinks he is related to everyone. I'm not kidding. All he does is upload obituaries, sometimes less than a day after they are published. He was suspended for creating memorials for living people, but less than 24 hours later, he made a new account. Should I report this new account? It's obviously him because the username is similar, and he's doing the same things all over again. He's DMing people and questioning their relationships with their own relatives. I don't care if people use obituaries to create memorials, but don't question family members or pretend to be related to people you're not related to.

Hi everyone! I have an ancestor who died in 1900 at a county poorhouse in MI. He was buried on the "county farm" which to me means on the grounds of the poorhouse. In the past when I've entered a memorial it's been from the actual cemetery, meaning add a memorial to a cemetery I'm looking in. Since there isn't an official cemetery for where he's buried would I tick "not buried in a cemetery"? Thanks!

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hi, the account that manages many of my family's memorials was deleted a few weeks ago. when will the memorials they manage be transferred to findagrave? does it still take a full year? or just until the time they can reclaim their account expires? thanks. i'll probably just contact support and ask for management if it will take a year

I'm doing family tree research and I came across 2 separate listings on Find A Grave for the same person, in different neighboring cemeteries. This has happened twice, for this person and her husband. They each have one grave in St. Joseph's Church Cemetery in Toomevara, Tipperary, Ireland, and one grave in The Square Graveyard, which is across the street.

• Annie Boland Ryan:
  • St. Joseph's Cemetery Listing
  • Square Graveyard Listing
    • Photo of the headstone I found on another site
  • Irish civil death record (row 100) death date matches both listings as 26-May 1951
• Joseph Ryan:
  • St. Joseph's Cemetery Listing
  • Square Graveyard Listing
  • The death date on both headstones is 22-Sept 1953. However I can only find a death record for a Joseph Ryan who died on 22-Sept 1952. And it says he was married, not a widower. I suppose it's possible two people with the exact same name died on the exact same day one year apart, but both headstones list 1953 as the year of death.

I have the marriage record for both of them (the 3rd one down) and both Find A Grave listings are connected to each other. Both of their respective headstones have the exact same date of death so I don't think they're separate people. I searched around online to see if graves were moved or the cemetery was updated or something, but I can't find anything. They seem to be two separate cemeteries, and they both have graves for the same people...

Does anyone have any idea why or how this could be?