Community Overview
Memorials
What is a memorial manager?
What happens to memorials if a manager is no longer active?
Community Overview
Find a Grave’s mission is to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience, preserving the historical record. The Find a Grave community consists of millions of people worldwide that help fulfill that mission. Anyone can register and join our community for free.
Find a Grave members can be found in cemeteries photographing and recording gravestones and GPS locations, in libraries or their homes researching and suggesting updates for memorials, and uploading or transcribing photos of their own or for other members. Or maybe they visit the site on a special day to leave a virtual flower for someone they love or connect with extended family through messaging.
The activities and different ways to contribute at Find a Grave allow for members to be involved at any level. Find a Grave has been supported and built by the community since the beginnings of the site.
Memorials
Volunteers add memorials to Find a Grave as they are passionate about helping people with discoveries regarding their ancestors, friends, and others.
A memorial can be added by any Find a Grave member with information that might come from a cemetery record, a headstone, an obituary or other record. Adding a memorial to Find a Grave records the burial site or type and memorializes the person that passed on, honoring them. The Find a Grave community works together to continue building what is the largest gravesite collection in the world. Learn more about Find a Grave.
What is a memorial manager?
A memorial manager is a community member who is willing to manage the memorial, collaboratively work with others on updates, and is open and receptive to requests from family members.
A manager has responsibilities to:
- Ensure that information on the memorial is accurate.
- Be available for other members to contact them.
- Respond respectfully to edit requests and other contacts regarding the memorial.
- If a manager is not related, we encourage allowing family members to manage memorials. Learn more in Request to Manage.
When a member adds a memorial to Find a grave, by default they are the manager of the memorial unless they transfer management to another member. You’ll find a link to the manager at the bottom of each memorial.
Find a Grave is a community volunteer project and we all collaborate together updating memorials. You don’t need to be a manager to add to or correct information for the memorial. Go to the memorial and select the Suggest Edits button, make the updates, and save your changes. There is an option to add a note about the update in that process. The manager will review your suggestions and approve or decline them. If they have a question, they’ll reach out to you. You can view your suggested edits through your Suggested Edits queue.
Other articles with more information
Management Questions
Processing Suggested Edits
Who manages memorials?
Suggest Edits and Community Interaction
How to Transfer a Memorial
What happens to memorials if a manager is no longer active?
If a manager is no longer active on the site and has not set up a steward, then management of the memorials defaults to Find a Grave. These memorials can easily be managed by family members, friends, or others in the Find a Grave community who are interested in updating and maintaining the memorial, as well as transferring to family members when requested.
If you have information for a memorial, you don’t have to manage it in order to update it, you can use Suggest Edits and the memorial will be updated.
A manager can set up a steward and Find a Grave will ensure that the memorials they manage are passed to the steward for management. Learn more
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