FG shows burial in St Agatha's cemetery. Category shows date error [closed]

Question

I believe this may be a 'duplicate' in the sense that I believe the solution is to correct the category timespan but that's not for me to say or do.

St Agatha's Catholic Cemetery, New Brunswick, Canada , shows in the WikiTree+ Cemetery report as part of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:New_Ireland_Cemetery,_New_Ireland,_New_Brunswick Category. That Category has  : 

Timeframe:

(1866 - )

but profile O'Regan-216 has a death/burial date of 1832. The FG link, Find A Grave: Memorial #169097540 clearly points to the gravesite with photo of headstone. FG quotes the inscription as saying he died in 1832. This obviously conflicts with the Category timeframe, which raises the error in WikiTree+.

Would someone on the Categorization team please resolve this for me?

Thanks!

/s/jr

Answer 1

This is a simple error to correct but it is not obvious.  Many cemeteries have earlier burial dates than the actual opening of that cemetery. These “relocations” or cenotaphs can often have data that conflicts with this.  A while ago, it was decided to just edit the date to reflect the earliest know burial rather than the opening of the cemetery.  So we just edit the category with the revised date.  I will go ahead and do that now and acknowledge the error as solved.

Comments

Gurney,

I figured that was the case, but felt it was best solved by someone who knew what they were doing.

Thanks! Happy New Year!

/s/jr