Find a grave addiction
So I have not been so good at adding to the database of the 1940 census, but on the other hand I have been adding to the Find a Grave site. Somehow it's more fun. I can only do one page every half hour on the census, and some of the writing is so horrible that it can be very frustrating. As it is with the stones I am trying to transcribe, I have to go back and see if I can do something to enhance the images. I can try to use flour, but not for the photo itself as FAG doesnt allow any alteration of the stone on photos, and the puritans freak out even at the thought of doing anything that would bring out the lettering, even something as benign as flour. I ask you, what the hell is the point of NOT getting the info off a stone that is almost beyond legible? Once it's gone, it's GONE. Why not get it now, while you still can? These morons piss me off. So I just take the photo before and then use the flour after to find out what the stone says. AT least in my one cemetery.. doing it out of bounds I'm not so sure I can get away with it without some nut coming by and freaking out. Of course if they do I'm just going to lie and and say it's my ancestor. lol White lies.. white lies.. hey, we are all related somehow.
I also forgot to say that I feel like I am in a war on FAG. There is a woman who has done a lot of graves in the cemeteries in the area. She has 32,693 Memorials Added
• 28,585 Memorials Managed. Which means she's added the 32,000 names, and then handed over about 4,000 of the to others. And it's great she's doing this, but at the same time, I see a grave I want to add because there is something about it I want to post, and I find she has already added it, which means she controls the content. I have added photos to some of hers, but otherwise I can only suggest she add info or correct stuff. So when I find a grave with an interesting epitaph or history, I fully expect to see she has already posted it, and when she hasn't its like "YES!" I win! lol I know it's silly, but there you have it.
I also forgot to say that I feel like I am in a war on FAG. There is a woman who has done a lot of graves in the cemeteries in the area. She has 32,693 Memorials Added
• 28,585 Memorials Managed. Which means she's added the 32,000 names, and then handed over about 4,000 of the to others. And it's great she's doing this, but at the same time, I see a grave I want to add because there is something about it I want to post, and I find she has already added it, which means she controls the content. I have added photos to some of hers, but otherwise I can only suggest she add info or correct stuff. So when I find a grave with an interesting epitaph or history, I fully expect to see she has already posted it, and when she hasn't its like "YES!" I win! lol I know it's silly, but there you have it.