Bug in citations on Find a Grave site [closed]

Question

There seems to be a bug on the Find a Grave site at present. Dates are not appearing in the generated citations. Example:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/364/benjamin-franklin

The top of the page correctly gives birth date 17 Jan 1706 and death date 17 Apr 1790. But the dates are missing from the citation offered, which looks like this:

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/364/benjamin-franklin: accessed 9 February 2024), memorial page for Benjamin Franklin (–), Find a Grave Memorial ID 364, citing Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

Note the (–) bit where the dates should be.

Hopefully they will fix this over there soon. In the meantime, please be careful if you are transferring a citation from their site to WikiTree. You may have to re-insert the dates manually.

Comments

Sheila Tidwell notes at this link that Find a Grave citations generated by WikiTree Bee are affected.

Answer 1

Sourcer seems to generate a correct citation (and has more info like date accessed):

Benjamin was mentioned on a memorial in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States with a death date of '''17 April 1790'''.<ref>

'''Memorial''':

"Find a Grave", database with images<br/>

{{FindAGrave|364}} (accessed 9 February 2024)<br/>

Memorial page for Benjamin Franklin (17 Jan 1706-17 Apr 1790), citing Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA (plot: Section A); Maintained by Find a Grave.<br/>

''"BENJAMIN<br>And<br>DEBORAH<br>FRANKLIN<br>1790"''.

</ref>

Comments

Thanks Gary. It sounds as if WikiTree Sourcer is using dates from the top part instead of from the citation.

People using copy and paste instead of Sourcer still need to be wary.

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The page was Waybacked Dec 28 2023 and the citation had the dates, so the problem has happened since then

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Thanks Linda. But it's systematically on every Find a Grave page. Other pages were working as recently as about 7 February, so their bug has been introduced since then.

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I realized it later.  I submitted something on Find a Grave forum about the problem.

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Thanks for alerting them, Linda. (Had no one there already noticed? The bug has existed for close to 24 hours, or perhaps longer.)

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I have no idea.  It is a forum to post bugs. I didn't see that anyone else had reported it, so I did.

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The problem is still present a bit after 5pm on Monday 12 February in Utah, where the headquarters of Find a Grave's parent Ancestry is located.

Have there been responses to your post on the Find a Grave forum, Linda? I hope they are acknowledging there is a bug.

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The bug is marked as Researching, so I 'assume' that means that they realize it is a problem, but it is not fixed.

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Thanks Linda. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

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The dates are now back in the citation on Benjamin Franklin's Find a Grave memorial, and several others I checked. Looks as if Linda's report did the trick.

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Yes, it was marked as Resolved. No explanation, but it was changed from Researching to Resolved.

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Rather taciturn :-) But it's good it's fixed.