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I recently read an article (https://news.findagrave.com/2026/05/18/back-to-the-beginnings/ ) about Find a Grave and it got me to remembering about when I first used it. I browsed it a lot, but I finally got the nerve to ask someone to take a picture for me and boy oh boy was I surprised. My third great grandfather was married with some OTHER WOMAN! Great grandma had died in 1880 and he died in 1920 and my assumption (I know…) was that he was sad the rest of his life and was buried with her. Nope. New wife, new grave.
If you don’t know about Find A Grave, it started in 1995 as a hobby. Founder, Jim Tipton, liked to visit the graves of famous people and set up the site so that he and others could log gravesite information for the famous around the world. It grew to be the largest website of gravesite information in the world. It’s now owned by Ancestry, but it seems to still be run the same way in its crowdsourcing.
Take a moment to check out Find A Grave. Is the cemetery down the street from you listed with all graves? If not, instead of taking your morning stroll through the neighborhood of the living, maybe stroll through the graveyard with your camera and upload to Find A Grave at teatime!
I may do this one morning at my local cemetery and blog it for all of you. I did one row with my children when we first moved here, but haven’t been back.
Helpful Links
Events: https://www.californiaancestors.org/events-and-education/
Special Interest Groups: https://www.californiaancestors.org/special-interest-groups-for-members/
Calendar view: https://www.californiaancestors.org/cgs_calendar/
Tips & Talk: Oakland FamilySearch Center Family History Classes: https://www.familysearch.org/en/centers/oakland_california/classes
JUN
2026