Has anyone else seen grave robbing on Find A Grave?

Question

On Find A Grave, Dr. Joy Preston Miller has been listed as the child of http://WikiTree.com/wiki/Miller-120710 , Arthur S. Miller, unmarried hotel janitor who died in Pocatello, Idaho in 1940, instead of his real father Dr. Arthur Scott Miller who died in Nebraska in 1936. Quite apart from the two different graves, there's census records for 1900 with Joy P. Miller living in Nebraska with Arthur S. Miller his father and another 1900 census for Arthur S. Miller living in Illinois with his Mom.

To be fair, some Find A Grave Listings are wonderful.  God bless them.  I got to see tombstones of my ancestors that I would never see otherwise, but sometimes, things like this drive me crazy.

Has anyone else had a frustrating experience with Find A Grave?  

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I  have found very few incorrect family connections, but when I do see one I make an Edit request and it is corrected promptly. If the manager does not make the correction, FG has a short wait time (a couple weeks, I think) before and auto approval for the correction kicks in.  

The most recent mistake I found was done by myself and i got it sorted out easily when the request went directly to edit and was a bit surprised to see I was the manager of the memorial.

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Thank you, Patricia, but I'm not registered on Find A Grave.  You must be if they made you a manager.

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I agree, I find that Find-A-Grave managers most of the time are very willing to fix the memorial.

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Update: Colin Chatfield has requested the removal of the listing of Dr. Joy Preston Miller as the child of Arthur S. Miller.  Arthur's mother was Hannah Chatfield and Colin has an extensive amount of data on Chatfield families.  I am hoping the profile manager at FG does the correction.  I awarded Colin the Blue Generous Genealogist badge.  So kind of him to help.

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Boy I sure thought this post was going to go in another direction when I saw "grave robbing"!

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Ry, I was thinking of it as virtual grave robbing: moving someone's grave listing to a stranger. But your comment was funny.

Answer 1

Samuel Hunter FG has his father as John Hunter 1782-1963. FS has his father as Samuel Hunter 1765-1848. Time frame, John Hunter makes more sense. If Samel is the father, he also has a brother by the same name. Samuel Hunter vs Samuel Hunter.

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Yeah, I get your point, K.  Same names equals confusion.

Answer 2

I have some "Errors" from FG that need to be corrected, and I am slowly coming to terms with how to do it. I got notice that dates between FG and my original documentation differ. FG really slaughtered my Grandmother's name. Alyce Loretta, became Alice Lorita [shivers uncontrollably].  LOL.

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Agreed, Mary.  Sort-of, kind-of, vaguely similar is not what you want on your Grandmother's FG listing.

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I've found a lot of errors on my suggestions list, where the error is the tombstone or the Find A Grave memorial. There's no correcting those on the WikiTree side. I've tried, but no matter what I do, the suggestions keep popping up.

For example, I can't help it that my great-great grandfather Ledford's tombstone is incorrect; here's his actual death date per contemporary records, with an accompanying explanation under Research Notes. Do the WT bots care? Nope. They just keep suggesting a correction.

It's frustrating on the best of days.

Answer 3

This is not a robbery, it is more like an extra deposit.

Two graves, one man with same wife listed (listed in one FG, which has no photo of headstone and wife is on headstone in the other). Same birth year.

Death date 25 years different. Cemeteries different.

I believe I need more sources, what do you think?

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Oh, Kristina, that's sad.  It's almost as if name is more important than anything else.  They lived in different places but must be the same person because the name is the same. They are born at different times or died at different times but they are the same person because they have the same name.  

Yes, with sources you can prove which grave is false.