Thanks for sending us your feedback and suggestions. We’re always looking for ways to improve the site and add more features for the community. We’re excited to share that we’ve been working on updates to the bio field for memorials. Our main goals were to:
• Make it easier for you to add a link to other Find a Grave memorials
• Give you some simple tools for making the bio more readable
• Make it easier to see what the bio will look like as you add it
One of the updates to the bio field makes it easier to add a link to another Find a Grave memorial. Here are some simple instructions.
1. Type the text that you’d like to display and select it (often this is the individual’s name)
2. Select the link button at the top of the bio field
3. Copy the URL from the memorial you are linking to
4. Paste it into the link field and click Save
A link to the memorial is created within the bio information field.
5. Save your changes.
If you are linking to another type of page on Find a Grave, copy that URL and paste it into the link field.
The addition of bold and italics allow for easily emphasizing certain words or phrases. You can also create numbered or bulleted lists. The idea is to use these simple tools when you need to enhance the readability of bios as you update them.
Other updates to the site include:
• Adding a quick way to copy IDs
• Adding full names to relationship links
• Minor updates to the edit memorial page
• Using last name (instead of full name) to search lists of edits
We appreciate your help as we continue to add and refine tools for the site. We hope that you’ll find these updates useful and would love to hear from you in the comments below. We do see a few bugs and are working to fix them. Thank you for all that you do for this vital work, that helps people now and will for generations to come!