Question

Which project are you reffering to?

Find A Grave.

I never received an answer, so I'm beginning to add my MANY profiles that have Find a Grave memorials. If this is not the purpose of this group, let me know!

Actually I don't know the answer either. Maybe this could be posted in the Curator area...they should know.

I'm a curator and I don't know what this project is for! LOL.

The question is in regatds to the "Find a Grave project"...Is it for posting tne need to find a grave, or posting the link to the photo of the grave on the Find-a-Grave site?

Brittany, I've been doing the same thing. While I don't see a real reason to have a project for that purpose, it is helpful to have a Find A Grave notation in the projects field sometimes, so you know you can go there for information. I always put the memorial # and site link in the About Me section of the profile.

The only reason I can think to have a project like this is to merge duplicate profiles of people on Find A Grave. There is already a Gravestone Photo Exchange project, so it seems the only reason this group would exist is to just add the people with a memorial. But that just seems a little ridiculous because there are SO many people on there. Oh well... until someone tells me to stop, I'm still going to add my profiles with memorials. We will see what happens I guess.

Once the memorial link to Find a Grave has been added to the profile, can we take it out of the Project? To me it seems like "work to do" and if the work got done ...

Perhaps incorrectly, I view the Find a Grave project as a warehouse for profiles that contain references to matching memorials on the Find A Grave site.

I'm also curious: is the Find a Grave project limited to deceased persons who are memorialized on Find A Grave, or does it also include living persons who contribute to Find A Grave?

Private User, can you shed some light on this matter?

At this point in time, my own opinion is that this project has little purpose beyond "publicizing" the FindAGrave (as well as similar sites, as noted in the project's Description) as a resource. I don't see any benefit to placing profiles into the project.

FYI: The SmartCopy tool can import data directly from FindAGrave into Geni; when doing so, it automatically places information in the Geni profile's "About" which links back to the original FindAGrave memorial.
(See https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783).

What is the particular purpose of putting someone in the find a grave project?

ie. why would you add a profile?

And if you did, what for?

I believe the project was started as one of the first projects when we were first learning to use them.
I don't see any useful purpose for the project. and no longer add profiles to it. I just cite Find a Grave as a source and also include a link in the About section. That makes a good bread crumb to be able to follow.
The project should be allowed to die a quiet death.

This seems to be a silly waste of time & I just got a request from someone to add a name from my tree to this project, but I have no idea WHY, since there is not even a date of death or any info about him after the age of 23, much less a grave!

I agree, let this project fade away into oblivion. I always link the memorial # to each profile and I was very disappointed when Geni mysteriously stopped doing that link for us. There were hundreds of profiles that i had previously hit "Yes, it's a match" to link it....then I had to go back later when the links all vanished....and laboriously look up the grave info one by one! Why?

re: "... Geni mysteriously stopped doing that link for us ..."

Because Ancestry.com bought FindAGrave; while FindAGrave is still free for individuals to access, they (Ancestry) declined to let MyHeritage have access to 'index' FindAGrave (I suspect it's a business issue).

FYI: Once you locate a "FindAGrave" entry, the "SmartCopy" tool makes it easy to add or update Geni profiles from most of the information and 'family links' located there (see https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 ).

I'm just now reading this discussion. I've been busily adding profiles to this project. Ummm...I guess that I should stop. Is anyone else still adding profiles to this project?

John Albert Rigali Only people who haven't read this discussion ;-)

I would not add any and if you have time, remove those you have added.

Duly noted. Thanks, Eldon.

It just dawned on me: shouldn't the creator of the project have a say in this matter?

Which leads me to another question: who created the project?

It appears that Private User started this project. Victar, what say you?

Actually, it has served a purpose. When some contributors to Find A Grave find a profile that they created on FAG on Geni, they go to that profile. Some find this project on the profile and read the description. It describes what can be copied and what can not.without permission. I have experienced people that think they can "copyright" a person's data; for example, date of birth. It can also calm them when they read that it is a memorial for family history. I have even encountered "protective" FAG contributors that became an active Geni member.
I have read several discussions about the worth of projects. There was even one where a rating system of projects was suggested. I find that there are many types of Geni users - mergers, social people in discussions, editors, tree growers, project specialists, etc. One of the beauties of Geni is to provide a forum conducive for all of them. I often think a particular project is not worthwhile, but I remind myself that it is important to someone else and I don't contribute to it.

what ever happened to the record hints to FAG?

Nicholas James Vetrovec, please see Dan Cornett's comment above.

oh. thought that might be the issue, but also though they had their index open.

here is the response i got when asking about 3rd party sites like myheritage searching the FAG index.

"Thank you for contacting Find A Grave.

Maybe myheritage would be better able to answer this question. I am not aware of any blocking on particular websites.

Sincerely,

Katrina
Curator
findagrave.com "

It's not that there is an intentional 'block' to the find-a-grave site from MH users (or any individual Internet users). It is a matter of the 'terms-of-service' and legal and financial issues.

For MH to pull-in *all* the find-a-grave information in order to index it within MH, they need Ancestry's permission to do so. And Ancestry (Find-A-Graves current owner) is most likely not going to allow that for free (I wouldn't, if I were an Ancestry executive). There are a number of other "business-decisions" (on the part of either MH or Ancestry) which could have the same result -- that result being that MH no longer provides a comprehensive "index" into the Find-A-Grave site.

I think
There 2 profiles on findagrave for this person I added both links will let you all deal with What to put on profile. I wasn’t for sure other then mother looks same but she seem to use same name variations. I sure one mistake and have emailed both parties on findagrave as I am findagrave user as well.
Billie

Peter Franklin Craft, Jr.

I made some Corrections per Findagrave to this profile. I asked this profile to be added to findagrave project.

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Billie