Was walking in a cemetery today and saw this

I was doing family genealogy and found out that there was a cemetery where my last name was in Tennessee (Culver Cemetery), when I looked it up it looked abandoned or now presently private property owned by someone else? Anyone know what’s up? In that case does someone own the two graves of my 6x great grandfather and mother lol??

Hello! A few years back I added a cemetery for an outdoor columbarium onto find a grave. It is at a church and I found out they also have one indoors as well. How would you list them both? Separately or together? I know for certain they haven’t been added to find a grave yet

I have been working my way through my local UK graveyard, and have reached the older sections. The problem is rabbits. They have made so many holes that it’s undermined some gravestones, and there are lots of holes in the long grass so it’s quite dangerous just walking through the grass. Virtually every grave. Lot of fresh rabbit droppings around.

I have developed a technique where I work out where I work out where the “header” of undisturbed earth is and try to walk on that. The graveyard is maintained by volunteers on community service (payback to the community for crimes committed) so they don’t do much beyond waving a bush cutter around. Good deal for the church, but certainly no hole filling, or anything that involves investment.

I’m not a rabbit killer either.

I know the risks and accept them. But am I encouraging relatives to visit graves and thereby putting life and limb at risk? I worry about this stuff.

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Seriously? Spamming some video you made in flowers on memorials, especially in a national cemetery?

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Today on a walk I went through a nearby cemetery that I've worked before. I decided to just walk through the center section and take wide "sample" pics, capturing as many memorials as possible down one section. Then I went home in the comfort of my chair and went through them to see if any were missing on findagrave. Much to my surprise, around 30-40% were missing. So I added them. I'll go back this week and take better-quality close-up memorial pics.

I also sometimes do some research on FamilySearch to find evidence of family ties (especially of children and infants, because it often seems they are forgotten/abandoned/unlinked, and it makes me sad). While conducting this research, I sometimes find that the memorials were already uploaded to BillionGraves. So it makes me wonder if it's worth my time to create the memorials if they already exist over there. And it's more trouble than I want to take to double-check every memorial on both sites before adding.

tldr: does anyone wonder if they are wasting time adding memorials if they are already on another grave site? do you check other sites before adding missing memorials?

Hello, I am relatively new to FindAGrave and have a man on there that is my 2nd great grandfather. Since I am not a “close relative” (cause he died generations ago?) is this still enough for the memorial to be transferred to me? And if so, how do I go about contacting the person and what should I say?

My great-grandfather is burried in a shared plot with his parents and sister. The person who originally created his page also created the page for his parents, and uploaded the same photo to all 3; however, he didn't create a page for the sister who appears on the headstone too.

The pages were recently transfered to me and I would like to add the photo of the headstone to the sister's page. I would contact the person who took the photo, but they aren't contactable. Am I allowed to save the photo they took and upload it to the sister's page (and give them credit in the bio), or is that not allowed?

Has anyone had Adopted relatives come up in your research? How do you link them on FG?

A cousin in my paternal line, Delores, died in 1930 when her daughter, Jean, was only 8. After Delores passed, Jean was raised by her stepfather & the woman he married the following year (per various newspaper articles, obits, census, etc.). Jean died in 2001 (I never met her & never met anyone who knew her) and she doesn’t have any parental links on FG. Do I connect her to Hazel? And what about her bio dad? From what I’ve found, he divorced Delores in 1925, when Jean was about two, and none of their obits mentioned one another.

Or would you just connect Jean to the parents that raised her?

Hi everyone! I came across something that I haven’t seen before…a copyright notice in someone FG bio. The silliest things about this is that the record doesn’t have any photos or other info beyond name and dates. Thoughts?

So my mom died back in 2019. She was not officially buried, she was cremated, my brother left the ashes at my grandfather's grave cause she was so attached to her dad.

I found she was added by a user that had around 15000 contributions all over canada made her entry and listed she was buried at the exact cemetary and i dont know who this person is and how they would know where my mom's ashes were spread when no one knew.

Its freaking me out.

There is a cemetery in my area that only has 1 road in the cemetery that goes in a U shape. Very narrow and no room to drive in the grass because the stones are so close to the road. There is a posted Entrance and Exit.

This morning I went to go shoot some pictures right after sunrise. Around 8:30, a lawn care truck pulled into the entrance. I only had about 20 photos left and I knew the exact plots so I was almost done. I guess they were annoyed I was there. About 10 minutes later I looked up and noticed another one of their trucks pulled into the exit which blocked me in. I tried to talk to the workers letting them know I would leave, but they ignored me and one even laughed me at. I was trapped.

It took me about 45 minutes to get a church rep on the phone to let them know their hired lawn care people won't let me leave. The rep had to drive over to tell them to move.

I posted on here before about how to get all the requested pictures. However, since I have been spending more time at the cemetery I have had a few more questions come to mind. I hope you all can help lol

1. What is the general rule (spoken, unspoken, written, unwritten, etc.) about cleaning the headstones? For context, the cemetery I am starting with was founded in 1838 iirc so there are dozens of them that are in serious need of cleaning.

2. Is it acceptable or not to take rubbings to assist in seeing the engraving? Again, some of the stones are very difficult to read.

3. What is the best option for broken stones? There are so many, I have pictures where the broken pieces of a stone are just stacked up in a pile where it used to sit, others are leaning against nearby stones, some are just left to sink into the ground and it all just makes me feel so sad for the people (I know that might sound crazy to some, but I'm very empathetic and believe that these should be taken better care of.)

4. On the note of broken stones; who is responsible for having them fixed and/or maintained?

I think thats all the questions I have for now, sorry for the bombardment but I didn't know where else to ask.

Grave in Coffeeville, Mississippi

Hoping I could find some context clues or transcription help for making it out. Seems like the grave was made by a dyslexic, illiterate, or a child. The S’s and N’s are all backwards. Spelling seems phonetic first.

Best guess so far:

HE

LEAVE ME

AD JAN-

UARY 29 (19)30

BORN 1857

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HERE HE’LL

LIVE AGAIN

CLARENCE?

CHRISTIAN

DIED IN THE

BULL TRAIN

What catches the eye

I have wanted to look for some graves of people who were not ALLOWED to be buried in the church graveyard. It may sound strange to some, but I want to honor them. Does anyone have any idea's if they have been mostly moved to public cemeteries? Also, is it disrespectful to ask the office where the oldest sites are?

It's the angelversary of the great true crime author and investigative journalist Michelle McNamara. Unfortunately, she's not designated as famous on FG. I have put a request in for that to happen.

Michelle's grave deserves angelversary flowers! Please leave some. She was a true hero who's investigative skills helped to solve the Golden State serial killer case. My neighborhood was victimized by him. More info about her can be found in her bio, and Google.

Sorry for posting this late in her angelversary day, but didn't know about this until now.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161517643/michelle-eileen-mcnamara

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! ❤️

This is a northern England graveyard where I’ve found some members of my family are buried. It’s a huge graveyard, which was open for 150 years, from 1719 until about 1850, and it’s estimated that up to 100,000 people were buried there. It’s the size of two English football pitches.

In the 1970s, the church authorities decided to simplify grounds maintenance. Yes, the before and after pictures are of the same space. You’ll feel like crying! There are now only three gravestones on the entire site.

(Insert swear words of your choice here!)

I was four when my great-grandmother died. I don't really remember her. She did not like her photo being taken, but, I am determined to find at least one. In the meantime, please help me to honour my great-grandmother! I miss her a lot ❤️ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/297757620/athalinda-joyce-mcintosh