u/sianabananaa

Has anyone else had an issue when uploading pictures through the app that none of them are adding GPS? It’s been happening to me for about a week or so now and I’ve never had this issue before, I had signal at the locations (it’s three different cemeteries this has happened with) and was able to add gps to those with memorials already that hadn’t been gps tagged while at the locations, but I’m having to manually pin the GPS on every single grave now where I’ve uploaded a picture - I have over 300 from today I need to upload and it’s a rather onerous task especially if I’m not 100% sure on exact location :( has anyone else been experiencing this or even better found a way for it to go back to adding the gps? Thanks

I don’t like to be negative but need a rant!
What on earth would someone who doesn’t speak a language want with a memorial in that language? Im Welsh and the area I’m from is Welsh speaking so the majority of headstones are of course in Welsh, one of the local gravers retired their account and people have claimed their memorials, it seems it’s mainly people from the US. I have been linking some families up who are buried together but just weren’t previously linked. I (naively I guess) assumed if they had the memorials they could speak Welsh, so sent them edits saying to see the inscription in Welsh and they’re declining all of the edits because they need proof of the relationships…it is written on the headstone, they are buried together with the same headstone!!! You just can’t read the language of the graves you have claimed!! Anyway I usually just have positive experiences on FG so this is definitely an anomaly, this is actually the first time I’ve ever had any edits declined and it’s driving me crazy! I think I’m probably preaching to the choir here but please don’t claim memorials in languages you don’t understand 😭

Hi guys, I live in Scotland and have a lot of very old graveyards nearby, it’s very rare that I see a grave past 1900 in the ones I am currently getting through. There is a local graver who has previously done the majority of cemeteries here, having 10s of thousands of pictures uploaded, which is awesome as he obviously works very hard to mow all these cemeteries!
There’s just one thing I don’t understand, he does not add memorials for any children included on headstones, only the parents/adults. Is this normal practice or is there a reason to avoid doing so? As I say these are not recent graves, one I have been transcribing now is from late 19th century and has 8 people on it with 5 children, he has only added memorials the three older people (two parents and a grandmother), I see this pattern in almost every single headstone pic he has that includes a full family, even where the children are named first and the parents last - anyone know why this might be? It’s not a huge deal as I am happy going through and adding their memorials if I notice there isn’t one for them from pics I’ve taken, but I just wanted to know if there was something I was missing that meant I shouldn’t actually be adding the children for some reason?
(Also to note, these aren’t children named as infant daughter/infant son etc. these are all named with birth and death dates and sometimes are even teenagers or adult children who have passed)

Hey everyone :)

After a bit of help, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of anywhere I could use to help date a postmark accurately? I’ve come to the possession of two old postcards sent to relatives, one addressed to a Mr. Locke, and the other a Mrs. Locke, the only trouble is I’ve had 6 Mr. And Mrs. Lockes from my family live at that address over time and want to try and narrow down who they were addressed to through dating them. They are UK postmarks (wales specifically) I believe from the early 1900s, and would really appreciate if anyone could give me a nudge in the right direction of how I could find out the dates - thanks ☺️