In rare cases, creating a Find A Grave memorial for someone with no burial information may be warranted, but these should be uncommon. If burial information is unknown for an individual, Find A Grave is probably not the right place for their information. “Find A Grave’s purpose is to catalog and make available final disposition information. When I click on Burial Details Unknown, FAG comes back with this statement: Without the ability to directly connect siblings without parents, what is the best approach to accomplish the task. The problem is I have several groups of 1st generation American as ancestors that are siblings of each other and I have their parents names and information however most are in Germany and I don’t have any info as to where or if they are buried. You can edit the Default Flower Category.Īll of this adding siblings to their parents is great. On your Contributor page, on the bottom left is a section called Customize.
You can also edit the default selection of flowers by clicking on the “Contributor Tools” link in the left toolbar. A list of flowers to select from will show up. Adding flowers is easy peasy….just click on the “Leave Flowers and a note” box at the bottom right of the memorial page. Keep in mind, that although these pictures are marked as copyrighted by yourself, some folks believe they can take the picture and use it without permission, so don’t upload any pictures you don’t want copied (this is the It’s always nice to see a picture of the person. If I have a picture of the person or their grave stone, I will upload it to the memorial. If you maintain the memorial, there will be a link on the memorial page to add and/or edit Bio. To add a biography, I click on the ‘Edit” tab at the top of the page and use the “Suggest a correction or addition” link. This, in my opinion, makes the person more real when you can read a story about them.
Submitting an obituary is also a good idea if you have one.
Go to and search for the ancestor I’m researching to see if they already have a FAG memorial set up.
Note: to make many of these changes, you will need to set up a FAG account, which is free and easy to do. Here is my process for helping to improve my ancestors (FAG) memorials. So, many of these memorials need to be enhanced with additional information. However, in many cases the individual who so kindly took the picture and set up the memorial only knows the information that is on the tombstone and the location of the cemetery. This is a wonderful service and I’ve found many of my ancestors memorials are already established. Many people go through cemeteries and take pictures of grave stones and submit them to. Eleanor Alberta Marks Doerr (my mother).I have frequently found valuable information and obituaries on these memorials. In doing ancestry research, I always check to see if my ancestor has a memorial set up on.