My husband and I were on a mission to clean the gravestones of his paternal aunts and uncles. When I could not find a Find A Grave memorial for his aunt (in-law), I asked where she was buried. I knew when she died, a week after my first child’s birth and thus I didn’t go to the cemetery, but vaguely remember what cemetery it was. My husband, who has a terrible memory could not verify that was the correct cemetery.
Therefore, I went to the library where I knew there were
cemetery indexes that were done by the local genealogical society. I found his
aunt’s name and made note of the section and location of the grave.
My husband and I went to the cemetery, cleaned the stone and
I photographed it so that I could create a Find A Grave memorial. I added her memorial and did a little
research and found out who her parents were from the 1930 US Census. I added them to her memorial along with the
link to her husband, my husband’s uncle.
Then I noticed that her parents had five children listed,
besides my husband’s aunt-in-law. I reviewed the 1930 US Census to see if they
were the same children. They were not, so I click on her father, and reviewed
the 1920 US Census and saw more children.
My mission, was to find the children that were not linked to their parents and add the parents to their memorial pages. After I was done, I realized that one child, John was showing on the parents memorial pages but not on the siblings pages.
I went to a Facebook group for Find A Grave, there is more than one. I asked if they every seen this. One member quickly responded that on John’s memorial the parents were in the wrong position. WOW, I didn’t catch that.
