Biden found on FindAGrave.com? What do you make of this?
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The guy who added him is a serious contributer. 8,229 memorials added over 7 years. From his bio
This is not someone who tarnishes their reputation with hoax submissions
Ok, that is too serious. Why would you have such a hobby? Am I missing something? I guess this guy really likes document things.
It’s for genealogy. Mainly so future generations can find their relatives. My husband and I go to graveyards that we know past relatives are buried. It’s a good place to factual information about a person and also you don’t have to deal with going to the library or county records. County records office charges for this information and it’s free if you go to the grave. Most genealogy sites charge also. There’s very little free information online. Genealogy research is a big hobby. If you have an account on find a grave you can request photos of the grave headstones and that gives you more information on the relative. You can be in NY with relatives in Florida grave and a stranger will see your request. It’s just something people do to be considerate. I look for photo requests when I’m in a graveyard. I can see it seems weird. Some people are extreme in this hobby. There’s someone in my area that trolls the local funeral home obits and creates a memorial before the person is buried. My husband’s best friend died and he found he already had a memorial yet no grave because he was cremated. My husband was able to take ownership. Same guy did three other people we know that died. Yeah there’s extreme people that give regular genealogy hobbyist a bad name. I haven’t been in a graveyard looking in over two years. But if I need to find someone in my lady relatives find a grave is a great resource.
Oh nice, I didn't think about genealogy. Thank you for the explanation. I am from Europe and we don't move to another state like you in most cases because of language barrier. Also we use records from libraries etc.. (at least in my country)
Most people I know have lived in my area all their lives and so have their ancestors. If people move it’s usually less than fifty. As for me and my husband’s family the ancestors are in North Carolina. Once you get back to the 1700s it gets harder. When paid genealogy sites has free days I have tracked my family back to the very early days in Ireland and Scotland. Back to the first years of AD time period. It’s too much to attempt to write down. Our county (states divided into counties) register of deeds office is where local records are kept. Records are also at the state capitol offices. I’ve never had a lot of time to go to these places during the week when they are open. Local libraries have a genealogy room. If the area is very poor there’s not much help. Everything is on old microfiche. The graveyard site has probably been available about twenty years. It’s available in Europe also I believe.
I certainly understand language barrier. There are lots of Spanish speaking people here and I don’t have a clue what they are saying.
That's about three submissions a day, EVERY day, for SEVEN YEARS.
I know they say "obsessed is what the lazy call the dedicated," but this really sounds like an obsession.
Or he's one of the guys who runs the entire site.
See my comment about this. He’s most likely not someone who runs the site. Ordinary people do this mainly for genealogy purposes. Then you got the people like this guy. Hard to judge because someone like this guy may provide information on a relative someone is looking for.