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Findagrave.com
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Type of site
Online database
Available inEnglish
OwnerJim Tipton
Created byJim Tipton
URLwww.findagrave.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional

Find A Grave is a for-profit website providing access and input to an online database of cemetery records.

History

According to the founder, Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton,[1] the website was developed in 1995 to address the lack of any existing site that catered to his hobby of visiting the graves of celebrities. After some time, an online forum was created on the site.[2] As of February 2010, the site states that it hosts over 42 million records.[3]

Content and features

The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from all around the world. American cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps (with GPS coordinates supplied by contributors and the U.S. Geological Survey) and photographs of the cemeteries. Individual grave records contain some or all of the following data fields: dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs (grave marker, the individual, etc.), and contributor information.[4]

Members are allowed to place on-line memorials for relatives and friends for no cost and may link a record to the records of spouses and parents for genealogical purposes. Users receive editing privileges over the memorials. Members may also request photos of graves which Find A Grave volunteers can fulfill.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Find A Grave Contributor: Jim Tipton". Find A Grave. 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  2. ^ "City Pages - Grave Matters". Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  3. ^ "Find A Grave". Retrieved 2010-02-14.
  4. ^ Find A Grave FAQ findagrave.com

Further reading

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