We’re pleased to announce the beta release of a new feature that we hope will help improve the cemetery information on the site.
The cemetery Suggest Edits tool is similar to suggesting an edit to a memorial, but it allows members to easily suggest updates to cemetery information.
Find your local cemetery on the site and see what information is there. If you find errors or missing information, click the “Suggest Edits” button and add your correction or addition.
If your cemetery has an alternate name or you’d like to add the name in a local language, you can add those on the Suggest Edits page as well.
Does your local cemetery have more than one page on Find a Grave? Report a duplicate cemetery.
Once you are done, click “Save Suggestions” and your suggestions will come to our team for review. You’ll get an email when the suggestions have been processed.
Thank you for all you do to share and correct information on Find a Grave. We hope this new cemetery Suggest Edits tool will make that easier.
Any way to delete a cemetery if there is no one buried there?
Thanks so very much for adding this new feature. It was definitely needed.
Does this override memorial owners? Most memorial owners I know, including myself have done extensive research to have the most correct information. I doubt that the “Team” would be willing to do the same. Please explain their decision making process further.
Thanks for your comment. This won’t impact memorial managers at all. This change is only for cemetery edit suggestions. It’s a way to allow the community to more easily share information they have about cemeteries.
I would like to see an edit that allows you to go back to a previous search whether it be for a cemetery or a memorial and the location blank still contain the location you were searching in while deleting only the memorial name or cemetery name.
I’m sure you know what you meant, but your post is difficult to understand. I’ve read it three times now and am developing a headache trying to decipher your comment. Could you possibly break it down into several sentences instead of one run-on idea? Thanks.
A very much needed addition. The old method was a pain in the neck.
This enhancement was needed and is greatly appreciated.
Will this be on the iPhone App as well? I do a lot of field work and use the app almost exclusively.
It won’t be on the apps initially. For now you can use it on a mobile browser and we’ll get it in the apps once we get the kinks worked out.
The cemetery edit page shows single spacing between paragraphs in the Description field, but the cemetery page shows what appears to be double or triple spacing.
Would like to see the subject line on email notifications changed from “Cemetery Edits Processed” to “Cemetery Edits Accepted” and “Cemetery Edits Declined” for email filtering/tagging purposes.
Like the “duplicate” cemetery option. thank you.
Find a Grave: Please check the edit dashboard. My pending suggestions aren’t showing up.
Thank You for adding this feature! This will be so helpful.
What is the consensus on using the name of a nearby city vs the township it’s in for the name of one.?? I know of two where the name uses the city and the actual cemetery is a mile or several out side of the town.
Expanding on your suggestion…City vs. township…include BOTH in the location of the cemetery, with a filter that permits searching for either jurisdiction.
Locally, I have a cemetery that is physically in the Salisbury, MO city limits, but the location is shown as Salisbury Township, MO because that is where it was before the city annexed the location (and Find-A-Grave declined a suggested edit to update the descriptive location). Perhaps the search box filter should have a “contains” option, so that a search for the “ABC” cemetery in Salisbury, MO also returns results for “ABC” cemetery in Salisbury Township, MO.
Will GPS entries for cemeteries be accepted as promptly as those for memorials? Many of the local rural cemteries in my area have GPS locations in the middle of farmer’s fields, and getting those updated in the past have required me to post screenshots of google maps showing the actual cemetery and the mis-located GPS point.
When one of the cemetery’s images is a map/layout, it would be great to give that image a priority in the order of images.
I manage a small private cemetery founded by my family but I was not the one who entered this cemetery into Find A Grave. Someone, I don’t know who, keeps sending you edits that you implement, saying that it belongs to a local church (it does not) and then I have to keep sending you the right info, and then they change it again. Is there anything I can do to stop this cycle?
Please email cemetery@findagrave.com and include the cemetery ID and anything that needs to be changed along with explanation. Please also include what has been occurring. We’ll review and make some changes to help prevent this happening again.