If I add the Find a Grave info to a profile, does it then show up in the WikiTree Cemetery list as a documented burial?

Question

In the latest WikiTree newsletter, you can go to any cemetery on the map, click 'my connections' and see possible relatives.  So if I add the find-a-grave info in the profile, will that person come up as a 'documented grave' at that cemetery?

Answer 1

You need to add a category for the cemetery onto the profile for it to show in the way mentioned in the Newsletter. That cemetery category also needs what is called a CIB (Category Info Box) with GPS coordinates added to show up on the map.

Answer 2

You will need to add the cemetery category to the person's profile and the Find a Grave source.

If there are other sources that would be great also.

Answer 3

I would hope not. I have one ancestor that can be found on 3 different Find A Graves in 3 different states. So this does not document anything! AND no one has been able to prove to me where his final resting place actually is. None of those find a graves have a photo of any type of marker, I would sure love for someone to help me find where he actually is!

Comments

Have you tried requesting a photo for each one?

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On the one that is an hour from me, I didnt bother because Ive been there and seen for myself there is no marker. I also have a listing of all those buried there. While several of his children are, in fact, buried there, there was nothing indicating that he was. On the one that I believe is most likely, yes I did, and did not hear back, On the third one, I have not yet.

Answer 4

Yours does not sound like this is the case, but for example I have a few family members who have three or four, several died in war. Their burial is at the place of death burial site (overseas), the family put a Cenotaph stone in the local family cemetery plot, another side of the family put a Cenotaph marker is yet another cemetery, then the US moved the the battlefield burials to the closest National cemetery.  So now there are four grave stones for same person, all over the world.  This is just one example.

In reading into yours though, sounds like several people have created graves on cemetery sites for same person, based off their belief the person is there.  I have worked a few of those out also, mine turned out that family on two sides, both claimed different cemeteries.  And the people creating the cemetery sites memorials found cemetery or newspaper records which claimed the two different cemeteries.  For me I really do not know which cemetery is correct and most likely never will.