Shannon M. Thomas | Mostly Genealogy

Find A Grave {findagrave.com} is a great resource for burial information and sometimes, if you are one of the lucky ones, you will find information on other family members.  On occasion you will also find a picture of your ancestor {those are my favorite kind of finds.} This Ray Arthur Hunter's Individual Information screen showing his vital information and his Event/Facts.  Highlighted in yellow and marked with a green arrow is the Find A Grave Event/Fact. The Find A Grave Event/Fact includes the Memorial#, the date the memorial was added to Find A Grave, and the place of burial. The Notes section includes the information from the memorial.  I also take a screen shot of the page and save that to the Event/Fact.  The memorials can be updated at any time by the person who maintains the memorial and for this reason at the bottom of the information in the Notes section I have an update date and I record the last time I visited the memorial h...

I started a new project in Legacy in the beginning of December adding Find A Grave memorials to my Legacy database.  In the process of going through my list and going to findagrave.com to find the memorials I found my 5th great grandparents.  The best part was I wasn't even really looking for them.  They are from a line that I have not done a lot of research on.  Easy find!  Because of this I ended up adding close to 100 people to my tree that need more research done and Find A Grave information added. Another discovery that I made was that some of the memorials that I added to my database a few months ago had changed and there was a lot more information added to them.  In the screen shot below is the information I added on 19 Jun 2014.  It includes birth and death year, his parents, his spouse and one son. When I went to Find A Grave today and looked at Wilson Houseknecht's memorial I found different birth information, more complete death info...

** This post was updated to add more information and more screen shots on creating a search list ** _________________________________________________________________________________ My last post was about using tags in Legacy so for this one I am going to show you how I make those tags work for me. The image below is the Advanced Tagging window (I showed you how to get to this window in my previous post). In the blue box (in the image above) is tag# 4 and it shows that there are 188 individuals that need Find A Grave events added. I did a search in my database to find all of the individuals tagged on tag# 4.  Go to Search and then Find and the Search window below will open and then to the Detailed Search tab.  In the image below, you can see the Search window and my search conditions to find all individuals who are tagged on tag# 4.  In the bottom left of the window make sure Clear List before this search is checked and then click on Create List. In the ...