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Comment by Allyssa on March 19, 2011 at 9:40am

those are a wonder, arent they sarah? make things so much better :)

Comment by Allyssa on March 19, 2011 at 9:40am

i personally don't consider a 2 minute phone call to be "research" that is too much to ask. i also don't believe that because someone clear across the country can't afford long distance phone service, that they don't deserve to see their families final resting place. but again, thats just me.

Comment by Sarah Coles on March 19, 2011 at 9:39am

Sounds like a few people need an add-on ad blocker for their browsers.

Comment by Julia Mitchel on March 19, 2011 at 9:37am

That is just my frustration coming thru. Last week I asked a requestor to post the Section for a huge cemetery here, and another volunteer popped up and told me I was lazy for not doing it myself. She was not even the requestor.

If you have time to do the research free for someone else, have at it.

If I don't have to call a cemetery or go into the office and wait, or check their website then I can take several more plots of graves.

They get good photos for fFREE, and my local area knowledge of requirements of local cemeteries and families, but research, I get paid for.

Comment by Allyssa on March 19, 2011 at 9:32am

PERIOD!? sheesh, no need for attitude.

Comment by Julia Mitchel on March 19, 2011 at 9:30am

My point exactly, some cemeteries will not give information out to non family members. When I lived in Chicago, they wanted to charge me $25.00 per name to look it up.  So I said no thanks.

As a genealogist for years, there is a way to get information if you need it.

If we are goiing to spend our time, and gas at $3.59/gal, take the photos of all in the plot, come home, upload it to our computer, resize them, find and claim the memorial photo, then upload it to FAG, write the comment and check it over, then the Requestor can pick up the phone or email the cemetery, and get the Section. PERIOD.

Comment by Eric Andrist on March 19, 2011 at 9:28am

@Julia, I agree...ancestry has a lot of information that really isn't theirs to sell. What they are selling is the ability to research and gather your own information on their site and compare it to other people's research. They give you the ability to search their records, a HUGE consortium of information all gathered into one  place so you don't have to bop all over the internet (or the world) looking for it. You're paying for that service more than for the information itself.

 

The ads on ancestry are NOTHING like the invasive ads on findagrave. I just checked and within my tree on ancestry, there isn't a single ad, nor do any pop up as I research.

 

Heck, if people want to rally together and help financially, I'm totally game to start a new grave/memorial site. I gave up my career to care for my disabled sister full time and genealogy has been great for me to pass the down time and have something to do. Plus I love doing it. But I get $9 an hour to care for her, so I can't afford to create any website like Findagrave on my own. That's why I turned to ancestry first.

Comment by Allyssa on March 19, 2011 at 9:27am

i handle that by calling at different times. likev one of my local cemeteries charges 55 for gen inquiries. so i just call and ask for 2 or 3 locations. next day, call again. now this place knows me, and knows what i do now, so they dont give me trouble, thankfully. but it really is how you handle it.   i have also found those cemeteries that are impossible or difficult to communicate with. i'[m leary when i call someplace and get an answering machine. and many places don't even have cemetery offices now. one local town you call Town Hall, but they are good about it. and another with a very large cemetery, has closed their office and we have to call DPW. but they are good too. other places not so much. can be a real pain. grrr.

Comment by Eric Andrist on March 19, 2011 at 9:23am

That's very true Allyssa, and basically how I feel. If I'm going to volunteer, I'm willing to do the legwork as well. Unfortunately, a great deal of cemeteries aren't helpful and very leery about giving out info for multiple sites to non-family members.

Comment by Julia Mitchel on March 19, 2011 at 9:23am

Gosh, I pay Ancestry and Footnote, MyFamily (four websites) and Heritage Quest $$$$Hundreds of dollars per year and I still get ads, and imperfection.

Personally Ancestry owns the world of genealogy information, most of it contributed that they sell back to us. I don't want them owning the rest of it.

They do a great job and genealogists could not get by without them.

I started 30 years ago with pencil and paper and snail mail, even with all the junk on the web, it does make it faster and easier to get real documents.

Good thing as I am not as young as I used to be.

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