1. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS Advanced Concepts
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2. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Quick Review
Do I have to have an ID to use the site?
To use the site as a resource, you do not have to have an ID or if you have an ID you do not have to sign in.
You may do the following without an ID –
research
send a suggestion to the manager of a memorial
Add a picture
You must have an ID and be signed in to do the following
Contribute to the site by adding memorials, adding cemeteries,
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3. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Quick Review
How do I get an ID?
On main screen, click on “Sign In” in Upper Right Corner
Or Click on “Join the Find A Grave Community” half way down the right side of the main screen
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4. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Quick Review
How do I add a memorial?
Main page - Add Burial Records
or start at cemetery you want and click on “Add a name to this cemetery”
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5. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Quick Review
How do I add a photo?
Click on Add a photo for this person right side of memorial screen.
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6. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Quick Review
How do I request a photo of a headstone or grave?
“Request a Photo” button next to “Add a Photo for this person”
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7. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Quick Review
How do I send a message / suggestion to the owner of a memorial?
Click on Edit tab at top right of memorial, choose first option “Suggest a correction or provide additional information”
Use Nice language.
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8. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
Let’s Move On
Transfer, what is that? How do I do it?
If you manage a memorial and get a request to transfer it, and you want to fulfill the request, Click on the “Transfer Management” area at the top right of the memorial, just above any pictures that are posted.
If you do not manage a memorial and want to request a transfer of that memorial to yourself, click on the edit tab, select the suggestion option, then write a note including the following information:
Your relationship to the person named in the memorial
Include your contributor ID
Ask if they are related.
The person is not required to transfer a record to you.
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9. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
Let’s Move On
My Profile Contributor Tools
Counts can be off - # memorials, # photo requests
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10. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
Let’s Move On
I added a photo and it has the wrong icon.
Click on “family” – Amanda Richardson Thomas – couple picture has wrong icon
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11. I added a memorial and now there are two of them.
Let’s Move On
I added a memorial and now there are two of them.

12. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
Let’s Move On
How do I designate a person’s body as cremated?
Rodney Wells
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13. How do I move a memorial from one cemetery to another?
Let’s Move On
How do I move a memorial from one cemetery to another?

14. How do I add a picture of a cemetery?
Let’s Move On
How do I add a picture of a cemetery?

15. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
Let’s Move On
How do I add a cemetery?
My Cemeteries – Goodson, Graveyard, Blackwell Family
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16. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Bigger Step
How do I embed code?
<a href=
" rest of the url“>
person's name </a> 
Graveyard Hill – Cemetery I created - Class
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17. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Bigger Step
How do I talk to the people at FAG?
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18. Report a problem. info@findagrave.com
A Bigger Step
Report a problem.

19. Need a fix. http://www.findagrave.com/forums/
A Bigger Step
Need a fix.

20. A Bigger Step
Get an ID For FAG Forums

21. Submit GPS For a Cemetery
A Bigger Step
Submit GPS For a Cemetery

22. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Bigger Step
Request that Cemeteries be combined.
Polk County Poor Farm, Laurel land
County Farm
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23. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
A Bigger Step
I found a cemetery in the wrong County or with the wrong name.
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24. FINDAGRAVE.COM ADVANCED CONCEPTS
Finally
Your Questions
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