[or-roots] Find A Grave

[Stephenie Flora]

With all that has been going on it just occurred to me that many people may
not be aware that you can go onto the home page of Find A Grave and do a
search by cemetery.  If you have a cemetery in an area you are interested
in, believe that it contains family members but can't find their names you
can search by the cemetery name.  Often cemetery listings have incorrect
spellings on names so it is an additional tool that can be used to find who
you are looking for.

On the same note, if you use ancestry and cannot find someone that you
absolutely know has to be in a certain area for a particular census but they
are not listed, try taking the first name of one of the family, put in their
birth year and leave the last name blank.  You want to narrow the choices as
much as you can by inputting the county, state, etc.  You will get a little
larger list but can often find your ancestor under some weird spelling of
his last name.

Stephenie Flora
www.oregonpioneers.com/ortrail.htm
My Families: Acuff, Bartruff, Bewley, Greene, Lewis, Modlin, Patty

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