Statements by some "Graver" contributors that FindAGrave.com (FAG) is not a genealogy website are flatly untrue. This incorrect opinion stated by some long-time gravers grossly understates the historical value of well-prepared FAG profiles. The truth about marginal FAG profiles created by some is – "GIGO" – Garbage-In-Garbage-Out. This is true: FAG profiles created with untrue, unknown, or wishful thinking are not genealogically helpful. In the Internet Age, poorly written FAG profiles are now a direct cause of significant misinformation in current Ancestry.com family trees -- peppered with many errors in beginner genealogist's trees. Time for long-time gravers to recognize and accept that for over a half-dozen years now, FindAGrave.com is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the leading genealogy service offered by Ancestry.com. Profiles created at FAG are increasingly more closely linked to all family trees at Ancestry.com via their well-designed database search and hint criteria. It is time for all FAG contributors to accept that the graver mission at FindAGrave.com is changed – please consider your continued caring graver work under this new management reality.
A happy personal note was the July 2020 discovery of our 3rd Great Grandparents James and Julia Clegg, a couple unsuccessfully researched for a decade or more, and finally found via a welcome Ancestry.com "Hint" leading to FindAGrave.com. This welcome Ancestry hint was presented by what seems to be updated and better-defined hint criteria in Ancestry.com's growing genealogical database. The value of this improved FindAGrave.com-to-Ancestry.com database linkage seems to be paying strong dividends in current genealogical research – and this is very much appreciated. Thank you.
Click "Julia": to see Julia Clegg's memorial and where additional links are inserted to her family.
